NATIVE AMERICANS

Local musician Kimaya Diggs previews her new album "Quincy," plus Nipmuc cultural steward Andre Strongbearheart Gaines Jr. tells us about the Smithsonian Crossroads program, and we enter the Wine Thunderdome once again with Bruce and Benson from Provisions.

A 1990 law requires federal agencies and museums that receive federal funding to repatriate certain Native American cultural items, including human remains and sacred objects. But our Accountability Project has found that several Connecticut museums have yet to fully comply with the law.

A bill which would change the name to the Pequot River has full support from the Mashantucket Pequot and Eastern Pequot tribes, but the Mohegan Tribe has voiced concerns.

Harvard University museums recently completed the legal repatriation process for the remains of 313 Native people from eastern Massachusetts.

A professor at Eastern Connecticut State University won a National Science Foundation grant to study Cahokia with students.

Massachusetts lawmakers recently passed legislation allowing the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to transfer historic documents to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.

Every year in late December, Native people gather at the mass grave site in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, to pray for those slaughtered by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890. But the remembrance this year included boxes of items that a museum in central Massachusetts recently returned to the Oglala Lakota nation.

People on Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota are preparing for the annual remembrance of the massacre at Wounded Knee, and reflecting on items returned last month by a museum in Barre, Massachusetts.

The ceremonies are expected to feature more than 100 items returned this fall to the Oglala Lakota tribe from a museum in Barre, Massachusetts.

Tribal environmental planner Marvin Cling says the $5 million in funding will help the Passamaquoddy respond to the effects of climate change.