An upstate New York district, where most students are Native American, placed its superintendent on leave after images of a wooden box in a classroom spread on social media. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Native Americans”
Seneca Soldier and Statesman Can Finally Add Lawyer to His Legacy
By Gotham Rex on November 14, 2025
Ely Samuel Parker, a Native American who served as an aide to Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was kept from practicing law during his lifetime. Source: New York Times
New York Faces Painful History as It Marks the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial
By Gotham Rex on September 28, 2025
As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities. Source: New York Times
Tribal Pot Shops Thrive in New York
By Gotham Rex on October 4, 2022
More than 100 marijuana dispensaries, run out of gas stations and wooden shacks, have opened on Native land while New York State awaits its first official retail licenses. Source: New York Times
US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback
By Gotham Rex on August 31, 2022
The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard. Source: New York Times
A New Source of Support for Indigenous Art
By Gotham Rex on March 9, 2022
The Forge Project, based in the Hudson Valley, is Becky Gochman’s initiative to raise the profile of the artists and find homes for their work in collections and museums. Source: New York Times
Miranda Miguel and the Native American Bohemia in Brownstone Brooklyn
By Gotham Rex on March 4, 2022
Indigenous rodeo riders and Wild West actors all gathered at an unassuming townhouse in Boerum Hill. Listening to the grown-ups under the kitchen table, a future experimental theater director. Source: New York Times
Facing a Ban, a School District Fights to Keep ‘Indian’ Nickname
By Gotham Rex on January 29, 2022
Residents in a divided predominantly white town in upstate New York are fighting a state ruling to remove the Native American mascot. Source: New York Times
National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $24.7 Million in New Grants
By Gotham Rex on January 11, 2022
The awards will support projects including Cherokee language translation, a digital map of jazz and hip-hop in Queens, and a study of the secret language of French butchers. Source: New York Times
Joanne Shenandoah, Leading Native American Musician, Dies at 64
By Gotham Rex on November 30, 2021
Ms. Shenandoah was considered the matriarch of Indigenous music for revolutionizing its sound. She won a Grammy Award for her contributions to a 2005 album. Source: New York Times
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
By Gotham Rex on October 5, 2021
Alan Michelson, a Mohawk artist, explores long-ignored aspects of American history and exploitation of Indigenous landscapes. His work at MoMA PS1 fuses modern media and Native song. Source: New York Times
A School District Got Rid of Columbus Day. It Didn’t Stop There.
By Gotham Rex on June 17, 2021
A New Jersey school district, criticized for renaming the day for Indigenous people, eliminated the names of all holidays. It might undo that, too. Source: New York Times
Why the Shinnecock Tribe Is Clashing With the Hamptons’ Elite
By Gotham Rex on April 22, 2021
The Shinnecock Indian Nation views a casino on its reservation as a path out of poverty, but some wealthy neighbors are up in arms. Source: New York Times
Biden Picks Dr. Nunez-Smith to Lead Health Equity Task Force
By Gotham Rex on January 8, 2021
Appointed head of the incoming administration’s task force on health equity, the Yale University scientist “is not sitting in her ivory tower.” Source: New York Times
They Died in the French and Indian War. Their Remains Await Reburial.
By Gotham Rex on December 18, 2020
The bones of British soldiers and colonial militia were disinterred during a reconstruction of Fort William Henry nearly 70 years ago. Source: New York Times