My Thanksgiving: How testifying for Native Americans made me a witness to history

In my career as a historian, I have learned in a personal way that being a witness to history is a two-way path.  In one direction, encountering events and people from the past has enabled me to construct and refine historical narratives, to shine a scholarly searchlight on forgotten — or suppressed — stories.  Read more: https://www.salon.com/2022/11/24/my-thanksgiving-how-testifying-for-native-americans-made-me-a-witness-to-history/