During the summer of 2024, Craig Howe (Oglala Lakota) and I co-authored eleven weekly columns for the Lakota Times newspaper to co-incide with the anniversary of an infamous military expedition that was sent to find gold in the Black Hills exactly one hundred and fifty years earlier. Each week, Howe and I mined the rich archive of documentary records this expedition produced to ask what it reveals about the region’s Native inhabitants. Howe and I also created a digital map where readers of the Lakota Times could track the expeditions daily movement through their treaty lands in real time.
“Surveilling the Surveyors,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 26 June 2024.
“Where the Bear Stays in Winter,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 3 July 2024.
“Washun,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 10 July 2024.
“Smoke Signals,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 17 July 2024.
“Hospitality and Hostages,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 24 July 2024.
“Black Elk’s Vision,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 31 July 2024.
“Elk Horn Valley,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 7 Aug 2024.
“The Race Track,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 14 Aug 2024.
“Bears,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 21 Aug 2024.
“Keeping Time,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 28 Aug 2024.
“Duplicity and Diplomacy,” with Craig Howe, The Lakota Times, 3 Sept 2024.