“By the late 1870s, after years of resistance, most western Native Americans had been forced onto reservations, those ever-shrinking pieces of land created by the United States government to contain and separate Natives…”

So begins today’s story by Dr. Justin Gage.

For further reading:
We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance by Justin Gage (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020)

American Native Networks 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/