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Beverly Little Thunder has served on the nine-person Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs since 2019. In her email letter, Little Thunder said she was stepping down because of “deceit and dysfunction.”
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A University of Vermont official apologized for causing harm to state-recognized tribes through an event hosted by the school last spring.The event, held last April, featured Abenaki representatives from Odanak First Nation in Quebec. They reiterated their stance that Vermont’s state-recognized tribes have not provided genealogical or historical support showing they are Abenaki.
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A new sign at Sweet Pond State Park has an Abenaki word: Amiskwbi. It means beaver water. Not everyone is happy about it.
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In 2021, the USDA launched its Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative. The goal is to rethink the USDA’s food and nutrition programs from an Indigenous perspective.
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In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race
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As of Sept. 13, six Indigenous Americans are in the House of Representatives, which now has Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native members.
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The Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs agreed Wednesday to ask the University of Vermont to hold a symposium featuring speakers from state-recognized tribes.This is in response to a previous event held at UVM, where several representatives from the Quebec-based Odanak First Nation questioned the ancestry of some members of those tribes.
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Francis issued the apology years after a Canadian-government-funded report said children had been physically and sexually abused at the mostly Catholic-run schools in the country.
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Pope Francis issued a long-awaited apology and took responsibility for the church's cooperation in generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada.
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At a Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting this week, female commissioners spoke up about sexism and cultural appropriation among state-recognized tribes.