Tribal leaders have backed the law as a means of preserving their families, traditions and cultures.
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Posted inSchools and Education
Cascade Brook School holds first family night since pre-COVID 19
Cascade Brook School Principal Dr. Nichole Goodspeed shared good news with the Regional School Unit 9 board of directors on Tuesday, April 11, as the school held its first parent/family night since before COVID 19.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Researchers are looking for lost graves at Native American boarding school
Children from over 40 tribes were brought from as far away as Idaho and Maine to the former Genoa Indian Industrial School in central Nebraska.
Posted inNation & World, News
Supreme Court justices seem to favor most of Native child welfare law
The justices heard more than 3 hours of arguments in a broad challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, enacted in 1978 to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes.
Posted inNation & World
Native American boarding school victims to speak of abuse
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it has documented about 100 more boarding schools not on the government list that were run by groups such as churches.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
Bedside table: A book to convert even the nonfiction reader
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inNew England
Massachusetts tribe seeks to repair lands damaged by colonization
The Wampanoag Common Lands project is part of a growing movement to preserve and reinvigorate Native culture and identity.
Posted inBusiness, Maine Cannabis Report, Nation & World
South Dakota tribe long opposed to alcohol embraces cannabis
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has banned alcohol for over 100 years, but views responsible cannabis use as a safe and natural medical treatment.
Posted inNation & World, New England, News
Native Americans urge boycott of ‘tone deaf’ Pilgrim museum
Native Americans in Massachusetts say Plimoth Patuxet Museums has not lived up to its promise of creating a ‘bi-cultural museum’ that equally tells the story of the European and Indigenous peoples who lived there.
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Tim Giago, trailblazing Native American journalist, dies at 88
A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Giago founded The Lakota Times with his first wife, Doris, in 1981.