Sublime

The seven men let their arrows fly. Each found its mark in a soft part of Bone Bull’s body: his neck, his flanks, the hanging folds of his belly. With each shot, the monstrous Buffalo’s efforts grew weaker…until the last breath squeezed from him and he collapsed. The herd was grunting in despair. ‘You!’ the Cottonwood called to them. ‘You all

They learned that there were certain things that would never be theirs: higher noses, fairer complexions, longer legs that might

Zhaanat’s knowledge was considered so important that she had been fiercely hidden away, guarded from going to boarding school. She had barely learned to read and write on the intermittent days she had attended reservation day school. She made baskets and beadwork to sell. But Zhaanat’s real job was passing on what she knew.

These removals were done by “friends” of Indians who wanted to solve the “Indian problem” with the classic liberal solution to all social problems: education.

Coyote knew a thing or two about untamed animals.

Aphra Behn’s 1678 novel Oroonoko.

American Indian ethnohistorian David Rich Lewis gives a convincing history of the invention of the modern equivalent of the Noble Savage, the trope of ‘Ecological Indian’, tracing it through 60s counterculture, the Crying Indian of the 1970s’ ‘Keep America Beautiful’ advertising campaigns, a script writer’s creation of a fictional speech by Chief