AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES

The Creation Story (film)

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:45:28 +0000

The interview about the film:

https://youtu.be/j71vTr0bJkU?si=r0M9AMNutC_yVbWs

THE FILM:

https://www.thecreationstory.co/

In the summer of 2022, Jasper Young Bear, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, invited three friends from outside of his community to a unique ceremonial offering that took place in a medicine lodge on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota. Across three days, Jasper tells his people’s Creation Story, a story as old as time immemorial itself.
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Previously preserved and passed down the generations in an oral tradition that Jasper was born into, his reasons for committing it to film for the first time in history soon become apparent, and are as urgent and pertinent as the story itself.
The result is a film like no other. Primarily a kind of ethnographic record that will preserve this story for the ages, it has now been thoughtfully married to a cinematic experience, to create a new kind of genre — a medicine film.

Thunder Bay NEWS update #MMIP

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:40:54 +0000

Press conference for missing Webequie member Kelsey Anderson, who was reported missing on May 9 and whose body was recovered from Thunder Bay’s Neebing-McIntyre Floodway.

Indigenous families call for permanent search team in Thunder Bay

by MBC News | Jun 6, 2026

By: Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet

Indigenous searchers are calling for the creation of a permanent search and rescue team in Thunder Bay, where the bodies of four missing persons have been found over the past two weeks. Meanwhile, Thunder Bay’s police chief and the region’s First Nations leaders traded barbs on social media, amid criticism of the force’s actions during the search. Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Thunder Bay Police Service chief Darcy Fleury exchanged critical social media posts on Wednesday and Thursday. Fiddler accused the police of instructing searchers not to look in a set of abandoned grain elevators.

READ: https://www.mbcradio.com/2026/06/indigenous-families-call-for-permanent-search-team-in-thunder-bay

MORE: https://ricochet.media/indigenous/five-missing-people-found-dead-as-first-nations-leaders-demand-answers-in-thunder-bay/

Canada: National Indigenous Histories Month

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:48:53 +0000

June 03, 2026 | By Connor Wilkes

Members of the Hadiya’dagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre set up a display at the Thistle entrance of the Library highlighting First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures and histories. This display marks National Indigenous Histories Month, and Indigenous Peoples Awareness Week.

The display includes a variety of items including Wampum belts; a drum and rattle; beaded gloves and moccasins; seal and rabbit pelts; various Métis sashes; Inuit embroidery and carvings, and a variety of other tools and handcrafted items.

Members of the Brock University and wider community are invited to a week full of learning, reflection and crafting during Indigenous Peoples Awareness Week, hosted by the Hadiya’dagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre beginning June 23rd. Students, staff, faculty and community members can visit brocku.universitytickets.com to see a full list of events and reserve their tickets now.

Be sure to follow Hadiya’dagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre on Instagram and Facebook to be the first to hear about events, news and updates.

Harvard's First Native Students?

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:33:23 +0000

Indigenous Learning Forum

Native American communities reflect on the nation’s 250th anniversary

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:14:57 +0000

America marks 250 years of independence on the 4th of July this year, and observances

file photo, Trace

will be wide-ranging. That includes those who are the descendants of America’s original inhabitants.

By the time European settlers arrived, historians estimate more than 10 million Indigenous people inhabited the land now called America. In the centuries that followed, battles, diseases, diminishing resources and forced land removal led to the rapid decline of the Native population. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Native Americans is currently under 7 million people — only 2% of the nation’s population.

As Native people continue to face land disputes and the highest poverty rate in the U.S., “Closer Look” assembled a Native American panel to reflect on the country at 250 years and offer perspectives as the nation reaches this milestone.

LISTEN: https://www.wabe.org/native-american-communities-reflect-on-the-nations-250th-anniversary/

https://www.wabe.org/native-american-communities-reflect-on-the-nations-250th-anniversary/

Middle schoolers create 10,000-piece mosaic to honour residential school survivor

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:09:51 +0000

This year for Every Child Matters — The Power of the Individual to Effect Change, students in Saint John focused on residential school survivor Andrea Simon, who is now an elder of Abegweit First Nation. (Nipun Tiwari/CBC)

VIDEO: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/project-orange-mosaic-saint-john-bayside-middle-school-9.7220810

Woman who had to give up baby urges Ottawa to apologize for forced adoptions

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:01:59 +0000

Christine Nayler seen in this November 2025 photo. She was 15 when her newborn daughter was taken away from her in 1982. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sharif Hassan

By Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press| Jun 1, 2026

Christine Nayler spent only four days with her newborn daughter after giving birth at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982, before her baby was taken away from her.

Then a 15-year-old expectant mother living in Toronto, Nayler was sent to a relative’s home north of the city to have her baby. She was expected to return home without the child.

While she was being repeatedly told she couldn’t keep the baby, Nayler was still hopeful that her family would change their mind.

But they didn’t.

“I always say that the day that I left the hospital without her was my death day because I feel like I died that day,” said Nayler, who now lives in Barrie, Ont.

“When your child is alive and she’s just taken from you for no other reason than you’re young and you weren’t even given a chance to be a mother, like, that changes everything that you feel about the world.”

Nayler was among hundreds of thousands of unwed mothers who were coerced and forced to give up their children for adoptions in post-Second World War Canada.

Decades after giving up her child, Nayler has launched a petition, asking the federal government to acknowledge its role and apologize for being part of the unjust system.

Her petition has garnered more than 600 signatures from across Canada and was tabled in the House of Commons last week, giving the government 45 days to provide a written response.

“I want the government to acknowledge the harm that was done to us and the role that they played in it,” she said.

In response to questions about the petition on Saturday, the Office of the Minister of Jobs and Families told The Canadian Press the government is grateful to those who have shared their experiences.

“Canadians have carried this history with them and the profound and lasting impacts that forced adoption practices have had on mothers, adoptees, and families,” it said in a written statement, adding that the government is committed to addressing the legacy of this issue.

“Canada recognizes that this was a systemic issue affecting people across the country. Important legal safeguards, including Charter protections and international human rights commitments, now help ensure that such practices cannot occur today.”

Liberal MP Karina Gould and Sen. Chantal Petitclerc also joined the fight calling on Ottawa to make a formal apology.

Speaking at a press conference Tuesday in Ottawa, Gould said she joined the advocacy to make sure Canadians know that an estimated 300,000 women were forced to give up their babies between the 1940s and 1970s.

“It’s about bringing closure and justice for these women and their children,” she said.

Petitclerc, who introduced a motion in the Senate on Tuesday, said the forced adoptions were enabled by institutions and public policies.

For decades, the country’s federal and provincial governments, religious and medical institutions and families worked together to systematically separate unmarried women from their babies by the means of adoptions, said Valerie Andrews, an advocate whose own child was separated from her at birth.

Andrews said only two institutions, the Catholic archdiocese of Vancouver and the United Church of Canada, have so far issued formal apologies.

It is time for Ottawa to acknowledge “the illegal, unethical and human rights abuses against unmarried mothers,” she said.

“Women are getting older, they’re dying, they are getting dementia, they (are) becoming disabled, and without hearing the acknowledgment that these atrocities happened to them,” she said of the mothers who lost their children.

She said an apology by Ottawa would pave the way for other involved parties to follow suit and admit their own wrongdoings.

Other nations including Australia, Ireland and Scotland have made formal apologies, she said.

Andrews got her PhD in women’s studies when she was 71, a move that she said was solely aimed at researching forced adoptions.

She eventually ended up writing a book titled “White Unwed Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada” that was published in 2018.

“I wanted to … have an academic record of the facts, you know, for others to follow,” she said.

Andrews reunited with her son when he was 32 and got to spend six years with him before he died of cancer.

It isn’t the first time that efforts are being made to pressure the federal government to admit its wrongdoing. The Senate social affairs committee issued a report on the topic in 2018.

In 2019, the government tabled a response to the report. In it, it acknowledged the trauma and outlined legal safeguards that had been put in place to prevent it from happening again.

Former senator Art Eggleton, who was involved in the investigation at the time, spoke at the Tuesday press conference.

It’s “important to relaunch this endeavour, both in the House of Commons and in the Senate, and to bring some closure to the issue,” he said, adding that it would include offering counselling services and helping to reunite those who want to meet their family members.

Nayler said her life was changed forever the moment her child was taken away.

She later married the father of her child, and the couple had three more children over the years but she never got over the pain of separation from her first-born child, and dreamed and prayed every day to see her again.

Her prayers were answered, she said.

They were reunited when the child was 21, and have been part of each other lives ever since, Nayler said.

The first meeting between the two happened at a coffee shop.

“I just wanted to run up and hug her, but I was scared, too, because I didn’t want to scare her,” she said about the moment she saw her grown daughter for the first time.

She said she feels they were both robbed of more than two decades.

“She has trauma, I have trauma, there’s separation anxiety, and we had to get to know each other. Like, I got to know my daughter when she was an adult, instead of raising her from the day she was born,” she said.

Despite the horrendous experience, Nayler said she was among the lucky mothers as she got to spend a short amount of time with her child after the birth and was eventually reunited.

“They never got to see their baby’s face, they never get to hold their baby even once in their life,” she said. “Some mothers have died and they never got reunited with their children.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 31, 2026. LINK

Finding Family, Finding Truth

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:56:58 +0000

New play unfolds in the shadow of ’60s Scoop

Ben Waldman Jun. 1, 2026

The latest play written by southern Manitoban duo Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold is Rattle, a story rooted in the inherited legacy of the ’60s Scoop.

Based on the stories of Robert Doucette and Roberta MacKinnon — friends and students of the playwriting pair — this play from Brandon-based Root Sky Theatre, directed by Charlene van Buekenhout and Cory Wojcik, opens at the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film on Wednesday night.

Rattle is the fourth product of the Racine-Lakevold playwriting partnership, following Misty Lake, Stretching Hide and 2024’s Owl Calling.

LEIF NORMAN PHOTO: From left: Alissa Watson is Lina, Dezarae Meade is Crystal and Josh Ranville is Dan in the play Rattle by Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold.

Each play by the twosome thus far has been a heartfelt study of issues facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, using history as a mirror to understand the country’s legacy of both immense harm and attempted reconciliation.

A co-production with local collective Theatre Incarnate — Brenda McLean and Christopher Sobczak — Rattle was awarded the best full-length play award in Theatre BC’s Canadian National Playwriting Competition.

Earlier this year, Racine, a professor of native studies at Brandon University, also launched Stolen Science, a podcast about the “largely unacknowledged contributions of Indigenous Peoples to Western European science between 1670 and 1870,” according to the university.

Rattle is set on a North End street in Winnipeg where friends Bobbie (Melanie Badger) and Dan (Josh Ranville) are finding where they belong.

Meanwhile, Bobbie’s son Jordan (Mackenzie Wojcik, Cory’s son) forges a bond with Dan’s kid Crystal (Dezarae Meade), who hopes against hope that she won’t have to move to the south end.

LEIF NORMAN PHOTO: From left: Dezarae Meade (Crystal) and Mackenzie Wojcik (Jordan) forge a bond as the kids of members of a found family.

Dan and Bobbie met when Bobbie aged out of care, learning to relate to one another as found family.

The character of Bobbie is based on MacKinnon, who was taken away from her biological family at the age of two. Adopted by a Mennonite family, Bobbie is always wondering not only where she came from, but why she was taken away, the actor explains.

“Any moments where the past is brought up it’s just too painful to confront those things,” Badger says.

Fateful interactions with the next generation and her ancestors help Bobbie find her truth, she adds. “In that moment it’s her healing moment, you can really feel that part of the play where she found her place,” adds Badger, an actor whose most recent performance was in 2019, in Theatre by the River’s The Hours That Remain.

Badger’s first performance was in Douglas Nepinak’s Crisis in Oka, Manitoba. That play — staged at Prairie Theatre Exchange last year as part of the second annual Kiyanaan Festival, produced by Van Buekenhout and Philip Geller — has served as an inspiration for both Lakevold and Racine.

LEIF NORMAN PHOTO: Josh Ranville, who plays Dan in Rattle, as been acting since he was a child.

“I’d like to think of it as blood memory as an actor, that’s the choice I made (in approaching the role of Bobbie), is that instant connection to her mother, her memory, her roots, her place,” says Badger, who works for the Winnipeg Foundation and Manitobah Storyboot School, a national charity offering cultural craftmaking workshops.

The play opens Wednesday with nightly performances to Saturday beginning at 7:30 p.m. Matinees run Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

The production is sponsored by the Riverton & District Friendship Centre and received funding from the National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada, along with both Canada and Manitoba arts councils.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/2026/06/01/finding-family-finding-truth

ICT NEWS May 29, 2026

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:02:46 +0000

Another headline: Dakota Access Pipeline permit granted after six-year review

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the development Thursday morning while presenting to the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, drawing applause from the oil industry attendees.

Burgum, who became North Dakota governor in 2017 while Indigenous-led protests against the pipeline were ongoing, called the drawn-out environmental study “a cloud of uncertainty over the whole Bakken.”

read: https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/news/2026/05/23/corps-of-engineers-grants-dakota-access-pipeline-permit-for-lake-oahe/90213735007/

BAD NEWS #NoDAPL

National Day of Action: Survivors, leaders call for continued funding of residential school investigations, healing in Winnipeg

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:29:22 +0000

May 27, 2026

Sixties Scoop Survivors and Indigenous leaders marched through Winnipeg Wednesday calling on the federal government to ensure long-term support for residential school investigations, healing and community programs.

The march through downtown came on National Day of Action, five years after the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Residential School.

At Oodena Circle Survivors shared stories of residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, family separation, and the healing work still happening today.

“The pain did not end when the schools closed,” said Christina Kitchekesik, a residential school Survivor. “It lives in our families, it lives in our communities, and it lives in our spirits.”

Sixties Scoop Survivors and family members shared stories of residential schools and family separation in a Oodena circle on National Day for Action in Winnipeg on May 27, 2026 (CityNews)

Ava Halpin was eight years old in 1964 when she was taken from her family and sent to live with three different white families.

Halpin says programs supporting Survivors have helped many reconnect in a variety of ways.

“That is why we need to keep these programs going to help the survivors heal, to keep learning about who we are and stay connected, stay together,” Halpin said.

Ava Halpin speaks about her experience of being taken from her family in 1964 when she was an 8-year-old on National Day for Action in Winnipeg on May 27, 2026 (CityNews)

By late morning, hundreds walked from The Forks to the Manitoba Legislative Building where the focus shifted toward calls for continued federal funding tied to truth, healing, and investigations into children who never came home.

A national e-petition, sponsored in the House of Commons by Winnipeg MP Leah Gazan, calls for long-term support for Survivor healing, cultural supports, and community-led efforts connected to unmarked burial site investigations.

“We’ve been asking for answers from the federal government what is exactly happening with the funding and the services that we have been receiving as First Nations and our organizations, our communities, and we still have not received any commitment, and the messaging right now is that the funding is going to be sunsetting,” said Kyra Wilson, Grand Chief of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Leaders say they are concerned communities across the country could lose momentum in ongoing healing efforts and say reconciliation efforts cannot depend on temporary funding cycles.

“A hundred-and-fifty years of damage has been done and they’re trying to remove funding to support our people and continue to support healing programs,” said Grand Chief Garrison Settee of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc.

Sixties Scoop Survivors and family members marched through Winnipeg calling on the federal government to ensure long-term support for residential school investigations, healing and community programs on May 27, 2026 (CityNews)

Wilson said the situation was not only in Manitoba but was across the country.

“What I would say to the federal government is that you have a duty and an obligation to make sure that our families continue to be supported,” Wilson said.

In a statement to CityNews, Maryéva Métellus, a spokesperson for Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) said, “Since June 2021, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada has provided funding to Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada as they undertake the difficult work—in their own way and at their own pace—to locate, document, and memorialize undocumented burial sites and graves at former residential school sites.”

“As of May 2026, CIRNAC has provided $284.2 million to 165 community-led initiatives for Calls to Action 74-76, including 76 community-led investigations at 89 of the 145 former residential schools,” she added.

Métellus said that the federal government funding is provided on a per-project basis.

“This is project-based funding, which means resources are provided for approved activities and must align with agreed-upon eligible costs and reporting requirements. Funding agreements are governed by established federal policies, including the Policy and Directive on Transfer Payments, which set out accountability and reporting expectations. Funding under the Residential Schools Missing Children – Community Support Fund is limited, and funding decisions take into account the needs of multiple communities across Canada who are taking on this critical work,” she added.

The petition remains open online, with organizers calling for long-term Indigenous-led and Survivor-centred funding.

Sixties Scoop Survivors and Indigenous leaders call for continued federal support for residential school investigation and healing during a march to mark National Day of Action in Winnipeg on May 27, 2026 (CityNews)

Unspoken

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:50:00 +0000

PBS Utah’s documentary examines the federal Indian boarding school system and the lasting impact it had on Native communities across the United States. These schools were created with one purpose: to force Native children to abandon their languages, traditions, and identities in order to fit into Anglo‑American society. The film uses firsthand Native testimony to show how these policies reshaped families, communities, and tribal nations for generations.

The story traces the roots of the system back to the late 1800s, when military officer Richard Henry Pratt pushed the idea that Native people could be “civilized” only by removing children from their homes and immersing them in English, Christianity, and military discipline. His approach became the model for federal boarding schools across the country. Children were stripped of their hair, clothing, and names. Speaking their own languages was punished. Many never returned home.

Good to Be Back

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:11:32 +0000

Sixties Scoop survivor raised in U.S. reunites with siblings in Winnipeg

Melody Roberts, 66, only learned she was taken from family after outreach worker tracked her down

Arturo Chang · CBC News · May 19, 2026

Donna Morin, left, and Joseph Lambert, right, welcomed Melody Roberts, middle, at Winnipeg's Richardson Airport Sunday evening. The biological siblings were separated in the Sixties Scoop, with Lambert and Roberts only learning recently they were taken from their family. (Coleen Rajotte)

Siblings separated in the Sixties Scoop have reunited after one of them — raised in the U.S. knowing nothing about her family — returned to Manitoba.

Melody Roberts embraced biological siblings Joe Lambert and Donna Morin during their first in-person meeting at Winnipeg's Richardson Airport Sunday evening.

"It's good to be back," the 66-year-old from Eugene, Ore., said as a welcoming party greeted her with signs, singing and drumming at the airport's arrivals area.

Morin, 61, wept as she hugged her older sister. She recalled a story her grandfather told her decades earlier, about taking Morin's mother to hospital and that "she'd come out without children."

"I just thought she left them there, and then I heard about the Sixties Scoop," Morin said.

"I got a list of the children that she had lost. And so I found most of them. I only had [Joe] and Melody to find — and I finally found them."

The Sixties Scoop refers to a period from the 1950s to about the mid-to-late '80s when government policies enabled First Nations, Métis and Inuit children to be removed from their homes and placed instead with non-Indigenous foster or adoptive parents.

Joseph Lambert, far left, and Donna Morin, far right, with Morin's daughter Samantha Sinclair, and granddaughters Madison and Lily, ahead of the arrival of Melody Roberts at Winnipeg's Richardson Airport Sunday evening. Lambert holds an image of Roberts on his phone. (Justin Fraser/CBC)

Roberts didn't know she was a Scoop survivor until recently.

"When I was old enough, I was told I was adopted. But that's all I knew," she said Monday.

"It was shocking. I was kind of taken aback by it. I had mixed emotions about it."

More than 20,000 children are estimated to have been taken from their families, though advocates say the numbers could be much higher.

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In Manitoba, a provincial inquiry from 2015 said more than 3,400 Indigenous children were "shipped away" to adoptive parents between 1971 and 1981 alone — some sent to other countries.

Survivors "grew up thinking they were not wanted," said Susanna Tasse, social services and outreach co-ordinator with Winnipeg charity Hope Centre Ministries.

"There's abandonment issues all their lives because they felt they were not wanted."

It was Tasse who helped reunite Morin, Roberts and Lambert. She said it all started about a year and a half ago when she realized Lambert — one of her clients — was also a survivor.

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Survivors say cases of 'pretendians' make reconnecting with community even harder

"I said to him, 'You know, Joe, you're a Sixties Scooper,' and he just was very confused, [asking] well, what's that?" Tasse said.

Tasse tracked down Roberts first, and arranged for her and Lambert to exchange emails and meet over Zoom. Then she found Morin, who lived only "a few blocks away" from Lambert in Winnipeg, and looped her in.

"It's really heartbreaking, now that they're in their senior years, that they ended up finding each other … wishing that they would have tried sooner in life," Tasse said, but "this is also a beautiful story, too."

Having family has 'totally changed my life'

Lambert did not get a chance to meet his mother or some siblings who died before he learned about his past.

"I didn't know I had a family, so I didn't have anything to miss," he said.

But the 68-year-old said the discovery has made his life better. He said he's now a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation after a long time struggling with his identity.

He's also hoping to visit another brother, who lives in B.C., in the coming months.

Before discovering he had family members, Lambert "was just being self-destructive to myself, [because] I had nothing left to live forward to," he said. "It's totally changed my life."

Coleen Rajotte, vice-president of the 60's Scoop Manitoba Council Inc., said many other survivors would also like to reunite with their families, but "have no idea where to start."

Supports are needed to help them with the search, and to allow them to "get back home," she said.

"Melody, who's coming all the way from Oregon, she had to save up to make this trip. And that is, in our minds, completely wrong," Rajotte said.

"She was taken away from her family and shipped to the United States by the Manitoba government. Why should she have to pay to come back to meet her family?"

Roberts will be spending three days in Winnipeg with her siblings, Morin said.

"We just got done looking at a bunch of pictures of my family and my other brothers and sisters and my mom and dad," Roberts said during a phone interview, as the siblings drove to The Forks Monday afternoon.

"It's been really awesome. I'm really enjoying myself here."

WATCH | Siblings reunite decades after Sixties Scoop:

Siblings reunite decades after Sixties Scoop May 19|

Three siblings have reunited in Manitoba decades after being separated during the Sixties Scoop, which saw thousands of Indigenous children removed from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families. Melody Roberts, who grew up in the U.S. and until recently knew nothing of her family, returned to Manitoba over the weekend for the first time to meet her brother and sister.

Data Center Protests | How To Stop Data Centers

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:50:10 +0000

The Numbers That Explain Why Your Grandchildren Will Be Fighting Wars Over Water (But With Robots)
Over the next four years, they’re planning to build more than 12,000 data centers in the United States. Currently there are 5,500. They’re going to MORE THAN DOUBLE them in four years. Total investment: $5.2 trillion.

Protesters rally against STAMP data center plan during Hochul visit in Buffalo

The demonstration called for a moratorium on new data center development across the state.

Tommy Gallagher (WGRZ) May 22, 2026

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Environmental activists, local organizations, and members of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation gathered outside the Buffalo Irish Center to protest proposed data center development in New York State.

Specifically, they targeted plans for the STAMP site in Genesee County while Gov. Kathy Hochul attended a fundraiser inside on Thursday evening.

The demonstration, organized by several local groups and environmental advocates, called for a moratorium on new data center development across the state. Protesters focused their concerns on the proposed project at the Genesee County STAMP site.

Although Hochul did not directly address demonstrators outside the event, she discussed the Genesee County STAMP plant earlier in the day, saying New York has some long-term interest in data centers, but only with certain standards.

Stream Data Centers, the company behind the proposed project, says the development would create 125 permanent jobs at the STAMP site and approximately 1,200 construction jobs during the buildout.

According to Honor the Earth, there are currently at least 106 proposed data center projects near or on Native lands. In western New York, a proposed $19.46 billion data center project would sit adjacent to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s territory, threatening an old forest that tribal citizens use for hunting, fishing, and gathering traditional medicine.

STOP DATA SURVEILLANCE CENTERS

The Underground Blueprint to Destroy the Tech Bro Plan to Enslave the Planet With AI Data Centers by 🐺The Wise Wolf

OR: How a Broke Hobojournalist With No Car Weaponized a Zero-Budget Strategy to Kill the Coming AI Dystopia Before It Starts

Read on Substack

TRICKS:

Step one: Corporation identifies land it wants. (”That subdivision would make a great server farm!”)

Step two: Corporation identifies local politicians who appear purchasable. (This step is easier than you’d think. Most politicians advertise their availability through campaign finance disclosures.)

Step three: Campaign contributions flow. (Legally! It’s all very legal! Just structured donations that definitely don’t constitute bribery because we’ve defined bribery in a way that excludes all the ways rich people buy politicians.)

Step four: Local politicians create or gain control of a “development authority” or similar governmental body. (Every state has slightly different names but they all do the same thing: provide legal cover for theft.)

Step five: Corporate executives or their proxies sit on that authority. (Just like how Pfizer’s VP George Milne sat on New London’s development board. Totally normal. No conflict of interest here. Just government officials who happen to work for the corporation benefiting from the government decisions they’re making.)

Step six: The authority declares the project serves “economic development” and therefore provides “public benefit.” (Jobs! Tax revenue! Economic growth! Never mind that a Costco also provides all those things.)

Step seven: Eminent domain gets deployed. (This is the part where armed government agents show up to inform you that your family home of 30 years now belongs to people who own more money than your town’s entire assessed property value.)

Step eight: Properties get seized. (The government takes your house. You get “fair market value” which is determined by the government. You cannot negotiate. You cannot refuse. You leave or they arrest you.)

Step nine: Land transfers to the corporation. (Usually for $1 or some other nominal fee because why pay market rates when you’ve captured the government.)

Step ten: Corporation gets massive tax exemptions for 10 to 20 years. (Because obviously a multi-billion-dollar data center needs tax breaks. How else will the investors afford their fourth vacation homes?)

Step eleven: The public pays for all the infrastructure upgrades. (New roads to the facility? Public expense. Upgraded power lines? Public expense. Water infrastructure? Public expense. The corporation pays for none of this.)

Step twelve: Corporation keeps all the profits. (Shocking twist: the economic benefits that supposedly justified the taking don’t actually benefit the public whose property and tax dollars funded everything.)

More on data centers: Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

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Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Native Lands...

Apr 24, 2026 Data center developers are using NDAs and bait-and-switch tactics to force Tribal leaders into building data centers on Native lands.

VISIT:

https://www.instagram.com/stopdatacolonialism/

Stomping Freedom

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:33:56 +0000

New film revisits country's founding from Shawnee perspective in Ohio during American Revolution

WYSO | By Adriana Martinez-Smiley

Caesar's Ford Theatre/ Provided

A still from the film "Stomping Freedom." It will premiere for the first time at the Little Art Theatre on May 27.

The American Indian-led arts nonprofit Caesar’s Ford Theatre will premiere a new film called “Stomping Freedom” in Yellow Springs this month, ahead of America’s 250th anniversary. The film examines who was in Ohio at that time.

Caesar’s Ford Theatre is a performing arts organization focused on telling American Indian historical dramas with American Indian actors. Using the term “American Indian” is deliberate as well, as this is the legal term used by the United States government to identify citizens of federally-recognized tribal nations, which have specific legal rights.

“Stomping Freedom” is a political thriller that recounts the tension between Shawnee villagers and American settlers during the American Revolution in 1778. The story begins at Caesar Creek, when an interpreter for the Shawnee tribe Caesar receives a letter with news he’s charged with delivering to Shawnee war chief Weyapiersenwah, also known as Blue Jacket.

Every American Indian role in the film is portrayed by actors from federally-recognized tribal nations. That includes the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin as well as historic Ohio tribes like the Seneca-Cayuga Nation and Shawnee Tribe.

“This was the home of tribal nations that lived here and could trace their culture and heritage back thousands and thousands and thousand years to this area."

Kane Stratton, the director and screenwriter for the film said Caesar's Ford Theatre wants the audience to understand Ohio wasn’t part of the United States 250 years ago.

“This was the home of tribal nations that lived here and could trace their culture and heritage back thousands and thousands and thousand years to this area,” he said.

Jake Tiger (enrolled Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Red Lake Ojibwe and Sac and Fox of Oklahoma descent) played Blue Jacket in the film. Although not Shawnee himself, he said he worked with Shawnee language specialists when speaking Shawnee in the film.

He said he tried to channel his own ancestor, the Seminole warrior Osceola, who also fought for the sovereignty of his people against the U.S. government, when portraying Blue Jacket.

“You know, that kind of grit and tenacity and that steadfastness of that lifestyle, and I tried to portray that in this dialog. So I took a lot of inspiration from my own cultural background and tried to do the best I could with due diligence and respectfully portray it as a Shawnee war leader,” he said.

Tiger said he appreciated the level of consultation that went into the screenplay, set design and attire to ensure everything was historically accurate and culturally appropriate.

“It felt like a movement, more than just one person doing this on their own and kind of dictating the narrative,” Tiger said.

The film was funded in part by the America 250-Ohio Commission to recognize the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The Yellow Springs Community Foundation was also a major donor to this effort, Stratton said.

The film premieres at the Little Art Theatre on May 27 at 7 p.m. A donation is required for admission. Tickets can be reserved in advance.

The film includes mature language, so it may not be suitable to view for younger kids, Stratton said.

Following the screening, production team members will reflect on the filmmaking experience and share plans for Caesar’s Ford Theatre's future.

Stratton said if there’s enough interest from the first premier, there’s potential to put on more screenings.

SOURCE: https://www.wyso.org/indigenous-affairs/2026-05-21/new-film-revisits-countrys-founding-from-shawnee-perspective-in-ohio-during-american-revolution

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noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:16:20 +0000

Still Here: Native American Resilience in New England

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:12:39 +0000

2026 marks a milestone in America’s history – 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Our founding document put forward aspirations that have shaped America and inspired the world. But the Declaration may surprise you. It calls the Native peoples of America “merciless Indian Savages.”

For generations, stories of Native America have been kept separate and apart from the American story.

Take a fresh look at the history of our region — and hear today’s Indigenous voices. It’s part of Still Here: Native American Resilience in New England — a special series from Connecticut Public, featuring radio storytelling, in-depth videos, digital stories, pictures and a community conversation.

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VIDEO: https://www.ctpublic.org/still-here-native-american-resilience-in-new-england

Chapter 1: An enduring spiritual connection to the land

Mark Mirko / Connecticut Public

In the several hundred years since the arrival of Europeans to New England, known as "Dawnland" to its original inhabitants, Native peoples have been forced to live on a small fraction of their ancestral homelands.

For more than 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Northeast was home to many tribes with organized leadership and governance; it was among the most prosperous parts of North America. A connection with the land endures – and you care for it like it’s a member of the family.

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Chapter 2: The hidden history of Indigenous slavery

Sir John Henry Lefroy / Cornell University Library

This image — a portrait of Jacob Minors of St. David's Island — helped reconnect Indigenous peoples in Bermuda and New England. Its caption contained a clue: "Reputed to be of Indian descent, and probably descended from one of the Pequod captives."

It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous slavery. As colonial powers took over Native land, white settlers were enslaving Native people. Some worked in New England. Others were kidnapped and shipped to an isolated tropical island. For generations, a lost tribe in Bermuda wondered about its past. Centuries later, they’ve reconnected with family – in New England.

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Chapter 3: ‘An unsung hero:’ A runner puts his tribe on the map

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library / Leslie Jones Collection

Ellison "Tarzan" Brown's victory at the 1939 Boston Marathon is seen as a turning point in the visibility and recognition of New England's Native people.

In the 1930s, runner Tarzan Brown twice won the Boston Marathon – and carried the Narragansett tribe’s name out of obscurity and onto a global stage. “He was like an unsung hero for a long time,” his granddaughter says. “It’s just good to see him get the recognition he deserves.”

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Chapter 4: A reverence for water, celebrated with music

Katie Lenhart / Dartmouth University

Jeremy Dutcher and Yo-Yo Ma greet the dawn with a song and music from We Are Water at the bank of Kwenitekw (the Connecticut River).

A Connecticut singer is taking Native art and culture to new places. He invited Indigenous musicians – as well as one of the world’s most famous cello players – to perform at sunrise on the banks of the Connecticut River. The performance highlights Native peoples’ deep connection to nature and water.

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Chapter 5: The cultural power of a powwow

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Visitors to the 2025 Schemitzun, one of the largest powwows in the Northeast and hosted by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation

As Native communities face continued challenges to their overall well-being, many find strength in cultural heritage and tradition. Powwow gatherings are a chance to reconnect with family, culture and values.

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noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:19:19 +0000

Here we go again

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:42:49 +0000

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Ghost Babies

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:44:45 +0000

‘Dark side of Quebec’s history’: Indigenous families exhuming their children’s bodies for answers, closure

Rachel Lau | May 10, 2026

VIDEO: More than 130 families are working to locate over 220 Indigenous children in Quebec through documents and exhumation.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/dark-side-of-quebecs-history-indigenous-families-exhuming-their-childrens-bodies-for-answers-closure/

Viviane Echaquan-Niquay was 12 years old when her sister Lauréanna died of pneumonia at the Saint-Eusèbe Hospital in Joliette, Que., in 1973.

At least, that’s what she says her family was told by the health care officials in charge at the time.

“My mother told me when she arrived in Joliette, she went to the funeral home,” Echaquan-Niquay recalls, adding that, to facilitate her parents’ journey, she was tasked with caring for her younger siblings at their home in Manawan, an Atikamekw First Nations community in Quebec’s Lanaudière region.

She continues, “She says she saw a baby in a styrofoam box. She said, ‘That baby is too big. They look like they’re 10 or 11 months old. Are you sure that’s my baby?’”

Lauréanna was two-and-a-half months old.

Echaquan-Niquay says the funeral director waved her mother’s concerns away, closed the box and explained that Lauréanna would be buried in a nearby cornfield.

“My mother and my father said, ‘Can we put a cross?’ They told them, ‘no,’” Echaquan-Niquay tells CTV News. “‘A plaque, at least?’ ‘No, not if the child isn’t baptized.’”

She insists her sister was baptized the August prior.

“When my parents said they were going to get my sister, if it really was her, they said, ‘we’ll bring her to the cemetery here in Manawan, and we’ll put a cross for her,’” said Echaquan-Niquay.

Lauréanna’s body was never released to her family.

An empty tikinagan, a baby carrier. (Echaquan family)

Ghost babies

Lauréanna Echaquan was born on July 20, 1973.

To this day, Echaquan-Niquay says she still has “flashes” of her sister’s short existence.

“I remember my sister was in a tikinagan, [baby carrier] and my mother was doing the laundry,” she said, looking off into the distance. “We didn’t have a laundry machine, so she was doing it by hand.”

Echaquan-Niquay repines she’s always felt disturbed about what happened to her family.

She says she understands now that historically, Lauréanna is just one of Quebec’s many “ghost babies,” Indigenous children who went missing or died after being admitted to hospital to receive medical care, mostly between the 1940s and 1980s.

In many cases, parents were later informed that their child had died, but were never given death certificates, access to their bodies or told the exact location of where they would be buried.

Rumours have pervaded that some babies may have been swapped and later offered up for adoption or sent to residential schools.

The Echaquan family in 2019, including Vivian Echaquan-Niquay and her parents, Armand Echaquan and Madeleine Dubé. (Echaquan family)

Uncovering the truth

The Echaquans are one of 130 families taking part in investigations to find more than 220 children following the passing of Bill 79, An Act to authorize the communication of personal information to the families of Indigenous children who went missing or died after being admitted to an institution.

The bill was introduced in the National Assembly in 2021 by Ian Lafrenière, Quebec Minister of Domestic Security and First Nations Relations.

“This is a dark side of our Quebec history,” he tells CTV News. “We’re talking about families who have been looking for their children for years, some as much as 40, 50 years.”

The government is working with Awacak, an Indigenous organization dedicated to finding missing Indigenous children across the province.

Part of the search, Lafrenière explains, involves unlocking decades-old documentation.

As such, the Echaquan family says they have been able to access Lauréanna’s birth and death certificates, as well as some medical records.

However, Echaquan-Niquay says she questions whether the records are a truthful recollection of what happened to her baby sister.

She explains that the registry in Manawan lists Lauréanna’s death as Oct. 27, but the provincial civil registry states Oct. 28.

Additionally, the autopsy report from the hospital has Lauréanna’s death on Oct. 30.

Some families, like the Echaquans, Lafrenière adds, have told him that they were unsure whether the bodies they were shown were of their children at all.

“In some cases, kids were sent to adoption without notifying the families, so you can imagine how hard it is,” he said. “They have been living without knowing what exactly happened.”

Since Bill 79’s passage, four exhumations have taken place in Quebec.

Lauréanna’s would be the fifth.

Awacak is an Indigenous organization dedicated to finding missing children. (Echaquan family)

Searching for Lauréanna

On May 1, Quebec’s Superior Court authorized the exhumation of Lauréanna’s presumed resting place.

Four sites were identified, including a soccer field near the Joliette cemetery, where a cornfield once stood.

“I felt light,” said Echaquan-Niquay of the court decision. “But I also felt pain because my parents weren’t there.”

Her parents, Armand Echaquan and Madeleine Dubé, both died within weeks of each other in the spring of 2021, never knowing what truly happened to their baby girl.

“I have hope that we will find my sister,” she said, adding that her wish is to bring her home to Manawan and offer her a proper burial.

If the exhumation process doesn’t lead to little Lauréanna’s body, buried in her styrofoam box, Echaquan-Niquay insists that she will continue looking - even if it takes forever.

The exhumation is set to begin on June 8 and last three weeks.

Snow Raven: A Person who Knows

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:31:15 +0000

Arctic Siberian SHAMAN REVEALS Humanity’s Imminent Awakening

Snow Raven takes us on a mesmerizing journey into the heart of shamanism, the power of sound, and the sacred connection between humans and nature. Born in Yakutia, she shares her experiences growing up in the vast Arctic wilderness, where silence and the elements shape the spirit. She explores the deep-rooted traditions of her people, the significance of the drum as a portal between realms, and the transformative power of voice and rhythm.

From surviving -96°F winters to using sound to heal and communicate with unseen worlds, Snow Raven reveals ancient wisdom that modern society is only beginning to understand. With a mission to reconnect people to their primal essence, she teaches indigenous singing techniques and rituals that awaken hidden parts of the soul. A powerful storyteller, healer, and musician, Snow Raven bridges the gap between ancient and modern worlds, offering a path back to the wisdom we have forgotten.

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noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:11:53 +0000

Missing and Murdered and more...

Black-Inuk woman traces history of Black settlers in the North in pursuit of answers to racial divisions today

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:08:00 +0000

Jaelyn Jarrett believes Black and white settlers had very different experiences in the North

Samuel Wat · CBC News · May 1

Jaelyn Jarrett and her aunt Leah Ford. Jarrett, a woman originally from Nain, N.L., has Inuit and Guyanese roots. She's embarking on a journey to trace the history of Black settlers in the North. (Submitted by Jaelyn Jarrett)

Jaelyn Jarrett remembers moving from Nain, N.L., to Ontario as an eight-year-old when she started being called a ‘Puatugi’.

“I didn't really understand what that term meant at the time, but I knew people would reference my hair, and so I figured that it meant black,” she said.

After conversations with her grandmother, Jarrett discovered that word meant Portuguese. She wondered why she — a Black-Inuk woman with Guyanese roots — was being referred to as Portuguese.

That memory led the Carleton University master’s student on a journey to trace the origin of the word, where she came across Canadian historian Kenn Harper’s Names We Call Each Other.

The book explains many of the whalers in the Arctic were Black men from Cape Verde — islands located off the west coast of Africa once colonized by Portugal.

Many Cape Verdeans emigrated to the United States starting in the 1800s, particularly to coastal towns with thriving whaling ports like New Bedford, Massachusetts. From there, some Cape Verdean men joined whaling ships travelling to the Hudson’s Bay and Cumberland Sound.

A photo by Captain George Comer, estimated between 1897 and 1899, showing the crew on deck of a whaling schooner. Brass Lopes is believed to be in the far right of this photograph. (Mystic Seaport Museum)

Those Black whalers were then referred to by Inuit as ‘Puatugi’, which was adapted from the word Portuguese to flow better in Inuktitut.

While Black whalers did head North for economic pursuits, Jarrett believes those men had very different experiences than their white counterparts.

"They were able to get opportunities to come to the North and make money, but they were still under the confines of racism and colonialism," she said.

She thinks many people don't realize that part of Nunavut’s history, which she believes could offer answers to the racial divide that exists to this day.

Racial segregation

At the time, Inuit were being moved around like human flag poles.

But there were also fearmongering narratives about Black men — who travelled North largely for the fur trade, military expansion, and whaling — which are documented in numerous reports.

The Qikiqtani Truth Commission quoted memories from elders in 1947, as they watched roughly 200 African-American soldiers descend upon their community around Iqaluit as part of operations by the United States Air Force (USAF).

This was an era of segregation, and the USAF moved Inuit to Ukaliqtulik, a nearby island, to keep them separate from the African-American troops. That left some Inuit feeling they had lost control of their own lives.

“It was kind of the beginning of Inuit being displaced for other people without there being understanding for why they're being displaced. Black bodies were being used for labour while Inuit were being displaced,” Jarrett said.

From left to right: Ikualak, Leopold (Leopu), and Attuat, taking a break from hunting. (Submitted by Noel Kaludjak)

Her research begins earlier, and it’s centred around one particular Black man — Brass Lopes.

He met an Inuk woman and had a biological daughter who was given the nickname Ikualak, which means fire in reference to her hair.

Ikualak raised eight children by herself.

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Noel Kaludjak, one of Ikualak’s descendants, grew up with many questions.

"It was kind of confusing at first… why is my dad so dark? He looks like an Inuk, but he's so dark,” he said.

Kaludjak says he got the occasional comment about his skin colour. But he and his family still hunt and fish because they’re Inuit — and they always will be.

‘My community didn’t accept me’

To this day, Jarrett believes Black Inuit are still affected by those colonial practices.

22-year-old Iima Arngaq, from Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec, has Jamaican and Inuit ancestry.

Her Jamaican ancestors, on her father’s side, moved to New York during the slave trade. They then made the move to Canada — which was at the time considered safer —and that’s where Arngaq’s parents met.

But Arngaq says her family became targets of her community’s racism.

From left to right: Iima Arngaq as a child with her mother Pasha Arngaq, uncle Adamie Philie, grandmother Jessica Arngaq, and grandfather Pierre Philie. (Submitted by Iima Arngaq)

“My community didn't accept me,“ she said. “My mother told me that people would make racist comments like wishing ill upon me and making jokes about how, because she slept with a Black man, her baby is gonna turn out burnt and ugly.”

Argnaq says she conditioned herself to hate her Black roots and her appearance — her curly hair, thick lips and darker skin.

Creating a better future

When Arngaq was approached by Jarrett for her Black-Inuit history research, she felt seen.

“We believe if you are Inuk, you are Inuk. it doesn't matter if you're five per cent or if you're 10 per cent or whatever percent the blood quantum tells us we are or we should be,” she said.

Jarrett worries about the racial tensions today, as demographics shift in the North and across Canada.

A childhood photo of Jaelyn Jarrett's family from left to right: Jaelyn Jarrett, mother Holly Jarrett, sister Jasmyn Jarrett Onalik as a baby, and sister Jordyn Jarrett. (Submitted by Jaelyn Jarrett)

But she points to the shared histories of colonization and displacement that both Black and Inuit communities face, and the socio-economic inequities rooted in racism that still exists today.

She stresses this isn’t an attack on any community, rather a call to action to better understand that part of Canada’s history.

"It's about trying to create a better future and ensure that our youth, our Black youth and our Inuit youth, feel included," she said.

My friend John

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School is not for everybody (especially us)

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:49:03 +0000

Eastman's grandkids...

State Recognition for Herring Pond Wampanoag

noreply@blogger.com (LT) — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:46:28 +0000

Rachael Devaney May 1, 2026 CAPE COD TIMES

Plymouth Select Board Chair David Golden, Jr. presented Herring Pond Wampanoag Chairwoman Melissa Ferretti (R) with the key to the town of Plymouth during the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe's state recognition ceremony on Thursday. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe members attended the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe's state recognition ceremony at Plymouth Town Hall, including the tribe's Chairman Brian Weeden, left. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe Vice Chair and tribal elder Hazel Currence comforts Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation Chief Ken Perry Alves as he spoke at Plymouth Town Hall about Wampanoag ancestors during the Herring Pond state recognition ceremony on Thursday. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe elder Hazel Currence speaks with her son and Herring Pond Tribe Medicine man Troy Currence during the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe state recognition ceremony on Thursday. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

The Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe was given the key to the town of Plymouth during the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe's state recognition ceremony on Thursday, April 30. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island Elder Hiawatha Brown presented an eagle feather to Herring Pond Wampanoag Chairwoman Melissa Ferretti, left, and tribe Vice Chair Hazel Currence, right, during the tribe's state recognition ceremony which was held at Plymouth Town Hall on Thursday.

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Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe Medicine Man Troy “Neesweekokotywak” Currence became emotional as he led an opening prayer during the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe's state recognition ceremony at Plymouth Town Hall on Thursday. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

Plymouth Select Board member Deb Iaquinto shakes the hand of Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe Elder Ronald Caleb "Salt" Harding, Sr. at the conclusion of the tribe's state recognition ceremony at Plymouth Town Hall on Thursday. Rachael Devaney/Cape Cod Times

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Here we go again

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Black-Inuk woman traces history of Black settlers in the North in pursuit of answers to racial divisions today

Jaelyn Jarrett believes Black and white settlers had very different experiences in the North

Racial segregation

‘My community didn’t accept me’

Creating a better future

My friend John

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State Recognition for Herring Pond Wampanoag

GOLDWATER INSTITUTE is still trying

and Four days ago, yet another apology in Canada..