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A Virginia tribe says racism wiped their Native identity from historic records. Nearly a century...
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Patawomeck Indian Tribe has been fighting to gain federal recognition from the US government for...
MMIW Awareness: A Day to Remember Centuries of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Native News Online via Yahoo News· 2 months agoHomicide is the fourth-leading cause of death among Native American women between the ages of 1 and...
8 Historical Moments More Important to Native Americans Than the 'First Thanksgiving'
Time via Yahoo News· 7 months agoClockwise from top left: A Pueblo boy with an eagle; Children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial...
Returning to the land: Virginia Indigenous groups want healthier lives, communities by owning and...
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 6 months agoEmily Richardson leaned on her cane in her garden in Caroline County, watching granddaughter Jay...
Before Langley Air Force Base: The muddy history of Shellbanks, Sherwood and other plantations of...
Daily Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDetonations echoed across the Back River as dynamite planted under tree stumps liberated them from...
Navy christens first-in-class support vessel at Louisiana shipyard
The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThis story was originally published by Stars and Stripes. The Navy recently christened the first of...
Peninsula community college changes building name, recognizes Kecoughtan tribe
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 10 months agoVirginia Peninsula Community College announced this week that it will change the name of Griffin and Wythe halls, which are connected and function as one building, to Kecoughtan Hall. The college ...
Ramapough Lenape chief: National park would be among 'most destructive things' since colonization
Pocono Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChief Vincent Mann is unequivocal in his position on turning Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area into a national park: It’s a destructive idea. Some reasons are more personal and cultural ...
Editorial: Reflecting on the role of indigenous people
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere has long been debate about America’s celebration of Columbus Day, which commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas and has been a federal holiday since 1937. Activists ...
Editorial: Reckoning with Native schools
Virginian Pilot via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA report issued in May by the U.S. Department of Interior examining the Federal Indian boarding school system and its legacy makes for difficult if necessary reading. It marks the first effort ...
