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RESERVATIONS - Lia Pappas-Kemps (2025)

Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and histories of the indigenous peoples of North America. Why were reservations established and who lives on them? Do reservations have their own laws and police? How did What was the infamous "Trail of Tears?" What were conflicts between tribes like prior to the arrival of Europeans? Did the United States ever lose a war with a Native American tribe? What was agriculture and raising children like in native cultures? Answers to these questions and many more await on WIRED's Native American Support.

0:00 Native American Support with Ned Blackhawk

0:12 Reservations

1:19 Casinos

2:53 Map of tribal boundaries in the US

4:01 Navajo Code Talkers

4:40 The Trail of Tears

5:32 Andrew Jackson and forced native nation migration

6:48 Origins of the stereotypical native aesthetic

8:16 Powwows

10:00 The 1960s Red Power movement

11:46 Indian, Native American, or Indigenous?

12:17 Native agriculture

13:34 Native conflicts before European contact

14:12 Raising children in Native American cultures

15:26 Sacagawea’s journey

17:16 Did the Iroquois really use the "Seventh Generation Principle"

18:32 Boarding schools

19:47 Remembering Red Cloud

20:57 The trappings of sovereignty

21:53 Did the United States ever lose a war with a Native American tribe?

22:28 The (controversial) Native American Church

23:48 Population growth