Rebecca Clarren

Clarren has been writing about the American West for more than twenty years. She is the winner of the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on The Cost of Free Land. Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and ten grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as MotherJones, High Country News, The Nation, and Indian Country Today.

Rebecca Clarren

My Mythic American Inheritance

After years of research, I’ve learned that my family’s history is tangled up with the history of the Lakota Nation, writes Rebecca Clarren.