Tag: Cherokee

According to my grandparents, the news of one man dying in August of 1935 struck them like the deaths of both Kennedy and Lennon, a simultaneous earthquake in both politics and entertainment. The New York Times devoted 13 full pages to coverage of this death two days after it happened, alm...

White people’s desperation to be seen as something less than white is emotionally exhausting but also violent. The romanticization of Native Communities is dangerous and offensive, we are part of those communities that are invisible to the State, and to society, and then we get fetishized by t...

The Cherokee Nation reached a settlement with Walmart on Oct. 3 that resolves litigation over the chain retailer’s alleged role in contributing to the opioid epidemic on the tribe’s reservation in Northeast Oklahoma, according to Law360. In their multidistrict litigation lawsuit, the ...