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‘Our identity has been frozen in time’: How Native American advocates are influencing Springfield
Illinois has a well-documented history as a removal state, meaning Native Americans were forcibly removed multiple times, ...
Illinois native people say their history is important and mascots are ‘a perversion’
It really is not a sense of honor there. It is not a sense of history,” said the director of the Native American Chamber of ...
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A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support
President Donald Trump this month ordered the U.S. Department of Education to launch an investigation into the dispute over ...
Preserving Cherokee Language Ten Books at a Time
A collaboration between the New Kituwah Academy and Western Carolina University produces screen-printed books for learning ...
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Allen to be inducted into Native American Hall of Fame
SEQUIM — W. Ron Allen, chair of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, will be inducted into the National Native American Hall of Fame, the organization announced. Allen and five other inductees will be ...
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Cherokee Nation brings awareness to “missing and murdered” citizens
Due to Oklahoma’s high number of missing and murdered American Indians, the Cherokee Nation kicked off May, acknowledging the ...
What a New American Citizen Learned on Route 66
Amboy, Calif., in the Mojave Desert, off the old Route 66.Credit...Andrew Moore Supported by By Aatish Taseer Photographs by ...
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A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support
director of Native American and Indigenous studies at Stony Brook University, also on Long Island. “It is as if this image were a shorthand for any and all Indians,” the Cherokee Nation ...