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Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has never gone away.

The 2023 cohort saw recipients across 48 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields and 72 different academic institutions. With four faculty recipients, Duke tied for second with the University of Pennsylvania for the most awardees per university.

Film-maker JoAnne Peden examines the life and legacy of Wovoka (aka Jack Wilson, 1856-1932), the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the second episode of the Ghost Dance Movement. The Ghost Dance swept across Native American populations in the West in the late 19th century. It was a messianic movement that unfortunately resulted in tragedy at a place called Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. At Wounded Knee, the 7th Cavalry under the command of Col. James W. Forsyth massacred a group of Lakota men, women, and children, while attempting to disarm them....

A new book on Natives journeying across the Atlantic reaches the outer limits of what European-style academic research can accomplish.

Mass graves show tragedies endured and depict the darkest deeds of humans. With the wisdom acquired we can only hope to move forward in our morality. Perhaps.