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Red and Black
March 30, 2018
Native American history is vital to the history of the state of Georgia, and a proposed plan for a history museum in Oconee County would honor some Native ... Native Americans have gotten the short end of the stick in American history, and bringing attention to this area by building a museum would highlightÃâà...
Char-Koosta News
March 30, 2018
Bison meat delivered to Flathead Reservation Ãâ÷ Statement from Gale Decker, Lake County Commissioner Ãâ÷ Skeletal remains belong to Native American woman Ãâ÷ Tester secures $50,000 to combat suicide epidemic in Indian Country Ãâ÷ University of Montana to host 5th Annual International Columbia RiverÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 30, 2018
Native imagery is embedded in the national subconscious, whether we're paying attention or not. A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian is titled simply "Americans" and shows how all aspects of life have been touched by the history and symbols of native culture. Jeffrey Brown reports.
Santa Fe New Mexican
March 30, 2018
The Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs budget, for example, will increase to more than $3 billion, up 7.1 percent from fiscal year 2017, according to an analysis from the National Congress of American Indians. The Indian Health Services is receiving $5.5 billion, a 10 percent spending increaseÃâà...
KOB
March 29, 2018
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the Native American artists say proposed changes are burdensome and disruptive to rules already in place. Proposed changes by the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs address a variety of topics, from day-to-day vendor oversight to which artists can sell theirÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 29, 2018
Native American artists are attacking a plan that would impose more regulations to sell their jewelry at New Mexico's historic Palace of the Governors ... Native American artists, who have long resisted attempts by non-Native Americans to sell similar jewelry and crafts in the plaza, said they didn't see aÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 28, 2018
That petition called for the construction of a monument to recognize the destruction of Native American communities during the colonization and ... ran in the publication Indian Country Today, followed by a 2 March 2016 story in Native Sun News Today titled “Russia to honor the American Indians,” alsoÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
Montana has more than a dozen Native Americans running for the state House this year. Utah tribes are pushing the governor to make a seat for them in his cabinet. Five native people serve in the Minnesota Legislature, and four of them are women. “American Indians have been invisible for so long, in soÃâà...
Great Falls Tribune
March 15, 2018
“I love the Native American prints in this year's designs. I think they're really beautiful,” she said. “It's great to meet all of these wonderful ladies and just to be a part of (bringing awareness to) something that is a growing problem.” Participating in the show has made Filler feel more sure of herself. “You haveÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
March 15, 2018
Legal advocates trying to stop a 5-year-old boy from being taken from his Ohio foster family and placed with a Native American tribe in Arizona won a step in the custody case this week when an appeals court reversed earlier juvenile-court rulings. The Franklin County Appeals Court ruled Tuesday that theÃâà...
Deadspin
March 15, 2018
The town of Pembroke is located in North Carolina's Robeson County and is home to the second-largest tribe of Native Americans in the state, the Lumbee. The Lumbee number .... To understand life as a Native American in the South during the twentieth is to understand segregation. More to the point,Ãâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 15, 2018
Second, to be male, poor, and either African-American or Native-American is to confront, on a daily basis, a deeply held racism that exists in every social institution. This experience is a direct result of centuries of vilification and pernicious narratives that portrayed African-Americans and Native-AmericansÃâà...
ABC News
March 15, 2018
Overdose deaths in Native American communities have skyrocketed in the time the opioid epidemic has swept the U.S. and federal officials are looking for solutions. Native Americans and Alaska Natives saw a fivefold increase in overdose deaths between 1999 and 2015, Dr. Michael Toedt told the U.S.Ãâà...
NMPolitics.net
March 15, 2018
The Native American Budget and Policy Institute, formed in late February at the Tamaya resort on the Santa Ana Pueblo, aims to create a dynamic ... Using a network of academics, policymakers and tribal elders, the Institute wants to strengthen the influence of Native Americans in policymaking at the local,Ãâà...
National Geographic
March 15, 2018
The business and its owner, he said in an email, "have supported Native American artisans for decades, maintain good relationships with them and provide the most important outlet in the area for Native Americans to sell their work. Al Zuni and Khalaf deny that they have ever attempted to pass off or haveÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 14, 2018
A letter purportedly documenting a Catholic orphanage's sale of a Native American child to an Illinois couple received widespread attention decades later on social media, highlighting a practice that has not made it into many American history books — but which is an indelible part of the country's recentÃâà...
CNN
March 12, 2018
Never got any benefit from it anywhere," Warren said. Warren, who says her heritage includes Cherokee and Delaware Indian roots, said Native Americans are "a group that is being injured every single day." "We need to bring some attention to it and we need to put some resources on it," she added.
Agri News
March 8, 2018
The Native American's transition from hunters and gathers to gardeners and into agriculture is on display the Dickson Mounds Museum, a branch of the ... Evidence of Native Americans settling in central Illinois goes back 12,000 years, when the Paleo Indians moved northward as glaciers from the last IceÃâà...
University of Wyoming News
March 8, 2018
Keepers of the Fire, the University of Wyoming's Native American student group, is doing its part to help residents of Wade's Mobile Manor who were displaced by Monday's fire that claimed several structures. “Our focus, until a list of specific needs is provided, will be to collect food and toiletries,” saysÃâà...
lakepowelllife
March 8, 2018
According to the non profit Partnership With Native Americans, no matter how smart and deserving they are, most young Native Americans do not have ... The mission of our Scholarship service is to give more American Indians and Alaskan Natives the resources and encouragement they need to learn andÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Critics have called the statue racist and disrespectful, saying it promotes genocide, portrays Native Americans as inferior and relies on inaccurate stereotypes. (Among the specific critiques: that the person depicted in the statue is styled like a Plains Indian rather than a member of any California tribe.).
Newsweek
March 7, 2018
"You have welcomed them [Native Americans] into your homes, and have often shared your meals, your good times and your sorrows," read the assignment. "Many of the colonists were killed at their dinner table as they shared their meal with their 'friends'.” The students were told: "Express your conflictingÃâà...
Smithsonian
March 7, 2018
Perversely, Native American ownership of black slaves came about as a way for Native Americans to illustrate their societal sophistication to white settlers. “They were working hard to comply with government dictates that told native people that in order to be protected and secure in their land base, they hadÃâà...
NPR
March 6, 2018
A diver in the Gulf of Mexico stumbled upon a 7,000-year-old underwater burial site off the coast of Florida. Archaeologists call the discovery unprecedented. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. We've got news now of a discovery in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: YeahÃâà...
History
December 31, 1999
A group of Native Americans look at a sailing ship in the bay below them. (Credit: Corbis/Getty Images). From the time Europeans arrived on American shores, the frontier—the edge territory between white man's civilization and the untamed natural world—became a shared space of vast, clashingÃâà...
