Epcot features Seminole artifacts on loan from tribe
The American Heritage Gallery showcases items from the tribal museum, which is set to reopen after being closed during the pandemic
'They make these stories sing'
Today in our roundtable discussion we talk with three authors about what it takes to create whole worlds in their work. Plus we’ll take one more look at the Indigenous athletes who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Before Europeans, Native communities flourished as true democracies
The U.S. has more to learn from the first inhabitants of its territories
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Colorado governor voids 1864 order to kill Natives
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Creating a TV newscast
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‘A leading light for tribes throughout the region’
Lorraine Loomis, chairperson of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, walks on at 81
A shameful history
Native historians are compiling what we know about boarding schools, a piece of history unknown or forgotten by many in the United States, though Native communities know it well
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