Seventeen years. That’s how long the Santee Sioux Nation waited to reclaim just five acres of their ancestral homeland in what we now call Nebraska. It’s a sliver of earth along Highway 81 that represents far more than its modest size suggests. In November 2025, when Tribal Chairman Alonzo Denney…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…
The history of Native Americans is often distilled into neat chapters: the arrival of Europeans, the expansion of the frontier, the resistance and removal of tribes. But the real story does not begin with colonial ships cresting the horizon, nor does it end with the closing frontier. It’s an ongoing…