What and when is Native American Heritage Month?
Native American Heritage Month was first established in 1990 under President George H.W. Bush. “Native American Indian ...
Breaking down the 'wall': Indigenous art masters inspired to rebel against gatekeepers
Yanktonai Dakota artist Oscar Howe started a rebellion against “gatekeepers” wanting to keep Native art in a slim “cultural” ...
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Study Finds Extensive Barriers Restrict Native Americans from Voting
In many states, such as Alaska, Arizona, Michigan, and Montana, Native voters are a significant voter bloc large enough to ...
MAP: See the California locations being renamed to remove offensive word for indigenous women
California state agencies have signed off on the renaming of 30 locations across 15 counties with a name that is considered derogatory toward indigenous women.
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Democrats, women clean up in all-Native candidate match for North Dakota District 9
Tribal citizens running on the Democratic Party ticket – two of them women — swept up all the North Dakota statehouse ...
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Reports detail loss and seek restoration for Native Americans in Colorado
Williams recalls the work to fundraise and hire researchers to pore over maps and historical ... partnering with tribal ...
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Squaw-Free: California Removes Offensive Word from the Maps
It is believed that the term "squaw" originated from the Algonquin word for "woman" used by Native Americans, but it has ...
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A derogatory term for Native women will be removed from place names across California
The word "squaw" was declared derogatory by the Department of Interior in 2021. Since then, hundreds of geographic features ...
California to rename dozens of places to remove racial slur for Native American women
The California Natural Resources Agency on Friday said that a racist term for a Native American woman will be removed from ...
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California slated to rename places to remove Native American slur
The agency was ordered to rename streets, bridges, public buildings, cemeteries and other places that use the slur.
California removes slur targeting Indigenous women from location names
Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term "squaw" from over 30 geographic features and place names on California lands.
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Tracing Ancestral Apache Roots: Connection to the Gila River and Beyond
A migration map of the Kayenta immigrants from the present Navajo ... The 1946 U.S. Indian Claims Commission (ICC) set out to assess land claims for Native American tribes that lost aboriginal lands ...