Indigenous Peoples

“The United States is a very complex empire, so any statements made essentially by this empire are complex in and of themselves, and hard to deal with,” said Emma Tsosie, a Dartmouth College student who is Diné and a member of the Picuris Pueblo. “It’s like — hard to know exactly how to feel.”

Dartmouth College students put on the sixth annual Indigenous Arts and Fashion Show Thursday night at the Hood Museum of Art. It's part of an ongoing observation of Indigenous Peoples' Month.

The commission could start taking public testimony as soon as next month, according to their strategic plan.

Native Americans at Dartmouth group coordinated a celebration with the theme “Indigenous Voices” aimed at amplifying the stories of Indigenous Peoples in Hanover and beyond.

Events in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine mark the holiday today and throughout the week.

Her decades of work aims to tell the truth about Indigenous peoples in the education system, and to dispel racism, she told Vermont Public last year. Her exhibition is called “The Children Have to Hear Another Story.”

Huntington resident Beverly Little Thunder, who is enrolled in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota, recently attended the Burlington screening of the documentary Sugarcane.

Pieces of stone tools and pottery were first discovered at Sand Bar State Park in 2022. For the past two years, water levels of Lake Champlain have been too high to further excavate.

A new pop-up restaurant in the Bangor area is serving up contemporary indigenous recipes with locally sourced ingredients. Katahdin Kitchen in Veazie has only been open for a few weeks but it's already become a gathering place for the tribal community.

Abenaki and other Indigenous perspectives took center stage in the nation’s capital last weekend when the Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band headlined the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center.