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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.
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Harvard University museums recently completed the legal repatriation process for the remains of 313 Native people from eastern Massachusetts.
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A professor at Eastern Connecticut State University won a National Science Foundation grant to study Cahokia with students.
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Massachusetts lawmakers recently passed legislation allowing the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to transfer historic documents to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.
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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.
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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.
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The ceremonies are expected to feature more than 100 items returned this fall to the Oglala Lakota tribe from a museum in Barre, Massachusetts.
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Tribal environmental planner Marvin Cling says the $5 million in funding will help the Passamaquoddy respond to the effects of climate change.
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Recent legislation signed by Gov. Ned Lamont mandated that school districts include Native American studies in kindergarten through 12th grade social studies courses, starting in the fall of 2023.
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"We're Still Here," depicting Native Americans who live in western Massachusetts, is a rare contemporary installation in the Springfield Science Museum's old Native American Hall. But the effort has sparked some backlash.