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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.
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At this month’s Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting, members and allies of the state-recognized tribes responded to a recent presentation at the University of Vermont. They rejected Odanak First Nation’s claims of Vermont tribes being “Pretendian.”
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Last week, Abenaki representatives from the Odanak First Nation addressed an uncomfortable, long-simmering dispute. Odanak citizens and officials said Vermont's state-recognized tribes are misrepresenting themselves as Abenaki – and profiting from it – when they are not Indigenous.
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An Abenaki couple, both basket makers, were part of a thriving economy on Lake Sunapee in the early 1900s. Generations later, their descendants are keeping the traditions alive.
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How some Northeast organizations are trying to return land, decision-making power to people of colorIndigenous people in Vermont, together with other people of color, manage just 1% of the state’s farmland. But before Europeans colonized the region, Abenaki and Mohican people took care of nearly all of it.Now, some organizations are trying to redress these racial disparities by giving resources, land and decision-making power back to communities of color.
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Months after the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, voted to return historic documents to the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe, town officials have mailed the...
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Four young Black Indigenous activists talk about their pride, the narrow representations of Indigenous peoples and what the Indigenous Peoples' Day holiday means to them.
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A growing movement recasts the second Monday in October as a day to appreciate the history of Indigenous communities. That visibility, say Native Americans, can help us see what else needs to change.
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We learn about the history of eugenics in Vermont and what it takes to rename a building.