harrowing tragedy

gender roles and identities in Indigenous communities

For the people of the Navajo Nation

Captain Seth Eastman

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America Salish (Séliš) harrowing tragedyOn the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America. In Covered with