Tag: Settler Colonialism

One of the ugly features of the U.S. Army genocide directed against Native Americans in the 19th century was the systematic slaughter of the buffalo. Native Americans drew their livelihood from the buffalo by hunting them and using their skins for clothes and other life necessities. They worshipped them in spiritual...

In August 2023, the Kaw Nation transported a sacred boulder, known as Iⁿ‘zhúje ‘Waxóbe, from Lawrence, Kansas, to ancestral Kaw land near Locust Grove, Kansas, where Kaw Nation members lived. The Lawrence City Council voted 5-0 to allow for the transfer of the boulder which, since 1929, had been located...