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The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, placing 130 acres into trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, giving the tribal nation sovereignty over the land after the U.S. auctioned off its land 175 years ago.
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is involved in the academic research because the federal agency has some of the foremost experts on the mapping tool being used, the researchers said.
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With the country’s second-largest collection of unrepatriated remains, Illinois has lagged far behind the nation. A new law has the Osage Nation hopeful there will soon be progress.
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Last year, the Department of the Interior released a report about Federal Indian Boarding Schools in the U.S. What is their legacy in Illinois?
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Illinois students will soon have to learn Native American history. But Native American students say it needs to be more than about the past.
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“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s” is St. Louis Art Museum’s first exhibition of modern and contemporary Native American art.
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Each year, a group of young members of the Cherokee Tribes gets on bikes and retraces the Trail of Tears their ancestors traveled when relocated by the U.S. government almost 100 years ago. They hope to bring more understanding and acknowledgement of the tragic event.
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Washington University researcher Natalie Mueller hopes to uncover wisdom from Indigenous cultures about growing new crops that are resilient to extreme drought and flooding.
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Some existing lessons on Native American history are incomplete and possibly inaccurate, according to many Indigenous people.
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Left beneath bridges and inside parking garages, Native American memorials in St. Louis draw advocates' ire.