Native American representation in Congress made great strides with the 2018 election of two American women to Congress. Now, the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma says it will send its own delegate to Congress, a move that will test both the tribe’s sovereignty and the willingness of the U.S. to meet its treaty promises. Newly-elected […]
After receiving a report of a body in Fairbanks on Monday morning at 12:44 am, troopers responded to the address to open an investigation. As the investigation progressed, troopers would determine that the woman’s death was “suspicious in nature.” The investigation into the death of the victim, identified as 69-year-old Trisha Pearson, of Fairbanks, […]
Detail of portrait of Shoshoni Chief Tendoi Demonstrating Sign Language. (Photo by Charles M. Bell, circa 1880, courtesy National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) In early September 1930, the Blackfeet Nation of Montana hosted a historic Indian Sign Language Grand Council, gathering leaders of a dozen North American Nations and language groups. The three-day […]