Category Archives: nativescience

Postcards of the Resistance

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

2 October 2025 Earlier this week I wrote about ouright lies and censorship advanced by leaders of the US government. Some are breathtakingly absurd (such as the vice president’s claim that residents in his homestate of Ohio were eating the … Continue reading →

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Facts and Evidence Have No Purchase in Portlandia

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Our city has been threatened by the felon-in-charge (Trump was found guilty on 34 unlawful acts) who declared Portland “war-ravaged,” according to today’s New York Times. Our governor simply said: “Let’s not take the bait.” Tina Kotek—a rational and just human … Continue reading →

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Native American Heritage Month

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Nanye’hi (pictured), a Cherokee leader, called for peace between the denizens and settlers. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1832 that Georgia had no authority over the Cherokee, which was a sovereign nation, President Andrew Jackson ignored the ruling. … Continue reading →

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Lies, Disinformation and Misinformation

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

LITTLE THEORIES My blog brings together studies of science, culture, media and discourse with an emphasis on issues that impact Native Americans. Today I’m looking at deceptive tactics aimed at persuading you to believe stories that are lies. I share … Continue reading →

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New Documentary Asks What Happens When American Universities Respond to the Conflict in Israel and Palestine

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

8 September 2024 My friend Jan Haaken—a professor of psychology and a filmmaker—is steeped in a fund-raising campaign to clear $25,000 and finish a documentary about how faculty, students, staff and college communities in the US cope with speech freedoms, … Continue reading →

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Labor Day

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

How Sioux history intersects with Labor Day 2 September 2024 I am reposting a bit of history about Labor Day to recognize workers who lost their lives before such a day was commemorated in their honor. Today—2 September—marks not only … Continue reading →

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POSTCARDS REDUX

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Remembering What We Forgot The photo from the February 1939 issue of National Geographic was repurposed as a postcard: a rare example of Native history that features fishers at Celilo Falls. Credit: Three Lions, Inc. (A US photo agency), copyright … Continue reading →

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POSTCARDS AS COMMUNIQUES When Indigenous History Gets Overlooked, Ignored

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

[The Wasco and Wishram lived along what is now called Hood River in Oregon, and lost their territory to settlers in the 1800s. Edward S. Curtis captured an image of a Wishram girl in 1909. Photo from the Library of … Continue reading →

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NOVEMBER 2023

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH My Mother is Watching Me Some Sundays we drive 90 minutes North of our Portland home, paralleling the Columbia River, headed for the Zen Monastery in Clatskanie (Oregon), where we spend the morning meditating and … Continue reading →

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Four Osage sisters create the heartbeat of the new film, Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), which is based on David Grann’s 2017 book about the murders of tribal members in the early 20th century. Pictured, from left, are Rita, Anna, Mollie … Continue reading →

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