High Country News

The Black Hills await justice

The U.N. Human Rights Council believes that South Dakota's Black Hills belong to their native Sioux inhabitants -- but do most Americans even understand the issue?

by Paul VanDevelder, Jun 07, 2012
Richard West Sellars' accidental but distinguished National Park Service career

Historian Richard West Sellars didn't intend to spend a career in the Park Service. But after 35 years, his impact still resonates.

by Kimberly Hirai, Jan 27, 2012
Portraits of the frontier West: A review of Western Heritage

Editor Paul Andrew Hutton gathers some award-winning articles on Western history and culture.

by Erica Wetter, Aug 07, 2011
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park

In Restoring a Presence, Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf shine a light on Yellowstone’s largely forgotten American Indian heritage

by Staff, Jun 13, 2005
Die with me

Three new books about the West’s Indian wars – Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall: Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent past.

by Annie Dawid, Feb 04, 2008
I think we're all anchor babies on this bus

If we're no longer considered U.S. citizens by birthright, then how do we know we're citizens at all?

by Diane Sylvain, Sep 13, 2010
A geography of the imagination

In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country.

by Eliza Murphy, Mar 05, 2007
A brief, interpretive look at the Indian Wars

Michael Blake’s new nonfiction book, Indian Yell, fails to live up to its ambitious subtitle, “The Heart of an American Insurgency,” with its quick tour of 12 battles between the U.S. Cavalry and American Indians.

by Jared Blackley, Apr 30, 2007
Big dams, big deal

Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics is as deep and erudite a tome as it sounds, and yet also a surprisingly good read

by Laura Paskus, Jun 25, 2007
We're still throwing horses overboard

America’s wild horses deserve our protection, and our respect.

by Deanne Stillman, Jul 01, 2010