Although Native Americans account for an estimated 1% to 2.7% of the U.S. population, funding cuts affecting Tribal Nations and Native organizations represented approximately 6.5% of all DOGE spending reductions that the researchers could verify through federal...
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A Cultural Lobotomy
Last night's showing of the documentary "Our Spirits Don't Speak English" about the impact of the Indian Boarding Schools was well attended and the talk with trauma therapist Patty Grant (EBCI) that followed felt as deeply moving as any part of the film. She spoke...
ABLA featured in The Laurel of Asheville
We are so grateful to Emma Castleberry and the staff at The Laurel of Asheville for featuring ABLA in their September issue! Read their write-up here: Spotlight on: The Alliance for Beyond Land Acknowledgement
WCU’s Rooted in the Mountains Symposium Sep 24-25
This year's topic, "Indigenous Perceptions of Hope," brings together many leaders of cultural and environmental restoration among the Eastern Band and the wider Indigenous world. Keynote speaker Dr. Kyle Whyte (Potawatomi) Kyle is a professor at the University of...
Labor Day Weekend in Cherokee
Introducing New Guided Tours for Fall Deepen your Museum of the Cherokee People visit with a guided tour. This fall, MotCP is pleased to offer Atsila Anotasgi Cultural Specialist-led tours of the Museum's main exhibition. Join a member of the Museum's education team...
EBCI reverses course after NCAI agrees to changes
After the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) altered its membership criteria to allow non-federally recognized tribes to join, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians were faced with a difficult decision: continue to support a vital organization whose resources...
Greenland Rejects Unauthorized Oil Exploration in Show of Indigenous Power
Navajo Nation citizen Jacqueline Keeler reports in her Substack on an attempted subterfuge by financiers and other allies of the current regime, caught red-handed in what she called "one of the most audacious private resource grabs in recent Arctic history" and turned...
I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating.
Please let this Native American's Opinion Inspire Us in the Importance of our Educational Efforts I’m not ready to throw the practice of land acknowledgments out. The form is too small for what it carries; there’s no way to spell out four centuries of dispossession in...
Dr. Tom Belt Native Health Lecture On Tohi’
THIS YEAR'S LECTURE BY KITUWAH (CHEROKEE) ELDER, DR. TOM BELT on TOHI': KITUWAH PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH "TOHI', in the Kituwah world, reflects things moving in a normal, peaceful way. Elders have described tohi' as the clouds and grass moving at their own pace, not...
Feds Threaten To Erase Tribal Voices from Historic Preservation
For more than three decades, Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has given Tribal Nations a meaningful voice in federal decisions affecting sacred sites, ancestral landscapes, burial grounds and other places central to Native culture and identity....