Native Americans
Indigenous gather to protest birthday party for genocidal U.S. President Andrew Jackson
March 24, 2023Jackson’s 256th birthday was no cause for celebration for Indigenous people in Nashville.
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Tennessee legislative committee hears bill to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day
March 14, 2023Indigenous representatives were upset that the committee delayed outright approval.
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U.S. renames five places that used racist slur for a Native woman
January 18, 2023The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, completing a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word “squaw” from geographic names.
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Water Protector and intrepid warrior Joye Braun passes on
January 6, 2023She was the first to set up her lodge in the snow at Standing Rock to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
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Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild ‘relatives’
December 8, 2022Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation generations ago.
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