Walking along the Northwestern lakefront, it’s hard to imagine anything other than students and University buildings coloring the backdrop. But centuries ago, the Three Fires Confederacy — made up...
Karen Little Coyote returns every year to Sand Creek, the place where her ancestors were massacred over 150 years ago. She finds only sagebrush, sand and heavy silence as she walks down to the waterless...
Descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre victims — Otto Braided Hair, Karen Little Coyote, Fred Mosqueda and Gail Ridgely — shared their family’s pain at an on-campus commemoration of the massacre’s...
On the day of the Sand Creek Massacre, Chief White Antelope rushed to tell American soldiers his people meant no harm. When the men continued firing, he crossed his arms over his chest and began to sing.
Descendents...
Northwestern’s difficulties with inclusivity are well documented and continue today. But nowhere does the past permeate into the present more than in the University’s inability to foster a fully inclusive...
