Native Americans

Travelers Look for Deeper Experiences With Native Cultures

By Michael Harmon January 15, 2024Australia, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Maori, Native Americans, New Zealand, North America, Travel, Travel and Vacations

Around the globe, travelers are looking to get beyond superficial interactions with Native cultures for more in-depth experiences, like tours led by Indigenous guides and stays at Native-owned lodges.

Lily Gladstone on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

By Kyle Buchanan January 6, 2024Academy Awards (Oscars), Actors and Actresses, Certain Women (Movie), Content Type: Personal Profile, DiCaprio, Leonardo, Film, Gladstone, Lily, Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie), Movies, Native Americans

The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star says awards attention feels like “being shot out of a cannon.” For a long time, she’d kept her distance from the industry.

Read Your Way Through Utah

By Terry Tempest Williams January 3, 2024Abbey, Edward, Books and Literature, Bushman, Richard Lyman, Childs, Craig, Content Type: Service, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Book), Deserts, Japanese-Americans, Keeler, Jacqueline, Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), National Parks, Monuments and Seashores, Native Americans, Poetry and Poets, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Book), Rekdal, Paisley, Stegner, Wallace, Travel, Travel and Vacations, Turner, John G, Utah, Writing and Writers

Utah is a place of paradoxes, full of terrible beauty and complicated history. The writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends books to help you explore the state’s many facets.

What ‘Pocahontas’ Tells Us About Disney, for Better and Worse

By Brooks Barnes December 16, 2023Animated Films, Film, Native Americans, Pocahontas (Movie), Walt Disney Company

The animated tale was both controversial and an Oscar-winning box office hit. It’s also one of the rare films from that era that the company isn’t eager to remake.

In Osage Communities, a Divided Reaction to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

By Christopher Kuo December 12, 2023Film, Indigenous People, Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie), Movies, Native Americans, Scorsese, Martin

The filmmakers’ attention to detail draws praise, but the question of perspective and who gets to tell the story is also at issue.

How Abigail Echo-Hawk Uses Indigenous Data to Close the Equity Gap

By BGLO December 12, 2023Abigail Echo-Hawk, Data-Mining and Database Marketing, Fashion, Indigenous People, Infant Mortality, Native Americans, Race and Ethnicity, Women and Girls

The public health researcher Abigail Echo-Hawk is a leading voice in a movement to empower Indigenous people, wielding data as a tool for racial equity.

From the Sea and Desert to Silver Creations

By BGLO October 27, 2023Albuquerque (NM), Fashion, Fish and Other Marine Life, Handicrafts, Jewels and Jewelry, Metals and Minerals, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, Silver, vis-photo, your-feed-fashion

Native American artisans create molds from cuttlebone and tufa stone to cast metal jewelry.

A Tribal-Led Effort to Protect Marine Life in California Faces Headwinds

By Lauren Sloss October 24, 2023Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, Coastal Areas, Eco-Tourism, Haaland, Deb, Indigenous People, Interior Department, Morro Bay (Calif), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Parks, Monuments and Seashores, Native Americans, Sams, Charles F III, Travel, Travel and Vacations, Wildlife Sanctuaries and Nature Reserves, Wind, Wind Power

The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary could create a new model for Native co-management of public lands. But the sanctuary faces headwinds with a last-minute boundary change to accommodate a wind farm.

Connor Bedard’s Hype (and Jersey) Take Over Chicago Blackhawks

By Mustafa Hussain and Benjamin Hoffman October 23, 2023Bedard, Connor, Chicago Blackhawks, Fashion, Hockey, Ice, National Hockey League, Native Americans

Before Connor Bedard had taken the ice for the Blackhawks, the 18-year-old hockey phenom’s No. 98 jersey had already taken over the Windy City, and beyond.