Check out this blog post by my colleague Claire Hawkins on the Washington, DC NFL team cancellation of their “shall-not-be-named” nickname trademarks. And, if you are curious as to why this is so important to Indian Country, check out the 1863 newspaper clipping on this post from The Daily Republican, a paper in Winona, Minnesota, … Continue Reading
There has been all the time, in the white American soul, a dual feeling about the Indian…The desire to extirpate [him]. And the contradictory desire to glorify him. –D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) The tension observed by Lawrence (and present in some of his own works) has not been resolved. White America … Continue Reading
