NATIVE AMERICANS

We talk with author Angela Marcellino about her book, "The True Natives of Cape Cod and Their Foodways," hear live music from Jim Hewitt of Easthampton-based band Lost Film, and have our latest Wine Thunderdome.

The Barre Museum Association repatriated two native headdresses to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The items date back to the late 1800s.

We hear about the Odenong Powwow happening this weekend in Amherst with founder and organizer Justin Beatty, learn about a tri-lingual children's book attempting to bridge cultural and ideological divides, and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

The college has said the decision emerged from a process that included perspectives from a Renaming Committee, students, staff and alumni.

The Springfield Science Museum says it repatriated the remains of 25 Native people unearthed in Worcester County, but there is no official record. The federal office that governs repatriations says the Springfield Science Museum needs to figure out what happened.

Hundreds of Indians and their French allies raided the western Massachusetts outpost in Deerfield on February 29, 1704. Author James Swanson's new book chronicles that fight, and the fate of "The Old Indian Door" that held back Native Americans wielding tomahawks on that fateful night.

We talk with Dr. Khama Ennis about the challenges and triumphs of Black women in the medical field, chat with Larry Spotted Crow Mann about Indigenous stories in children's literature, and talk adjectives with wordster Emily Brewster.

The new regulations for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, require institutions like museums and schools to obtain "free, prior, and informed consent" before exhibiting human remains and cultural objects, or giving people access to them or conducting research on them.

New federal regulations governing the return of Native human remains and objects to tribes went into effect earlier this month.

Descendants of the survivors of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre disagree over what should happen to items returned to the Oglala Sioux tribe by a Barre, Massachusetts, museum last year. Tribal members believe the moccasins, pipes and pouches were taken off the bodies of those killed by the U.S. cavalry.