Free Among the many new spring exhibits at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is a retrospective that reframes the work of artist Worth D. Griffin. While serving in 1936 as the fine arts chair of the then Washington State College, Griffin set out to paint a series of portraits of the “Indians of the Northwest tribes and other historic characters.” The resulting oil paintings are beautiful and poignant, but alone, they lack needed historical context. Guest curator Michael Holloman, WSU fine arts professor and enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, has created an exhibit that tells a more…
50 years ago, election ushered in new era for US tribes
May 10, 2021
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In this Dec 4, 2016, file photo, Dan Nanamkin, of the Colville Nez Perce Native American tribe in Nespelem, Wash., right, drums with a procession through the Oceti Sakowin camp after it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t grant easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
By Mark Trahant
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fifty years ago this week the federal government’s experiment with termination was crushed at the ballot box on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state.
Fifty years ago this week the federal government’s experiment with termination was crushed at the ballot box on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state.
50 years ago, election ushered in new era for US tribes
MARK TRAHANT, Indian Country Today
May 8, 2021
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1of8Linda Desautel, center in white, looks skyward and cheers with friends and Colville Confederated Tribe members as they rally in support of her husband Rick Desautel, whose case in the Canadian Supreme court arguing for the Sinixt peoples right to hunt traditional lands in Canada was first heard, on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, near Kettle Falls, Wash. It s been 50 years since the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation voted against termination, effectively ending the federal government s experiment in abrogating treaties, eliminating funding and freeing the Indians from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. More than 100 tribes were terminated by the United States but not one after the 12 bands that make up the reservation in Washington state crushed the idea at the ballot box. (Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review via AP)Tyler Tjomsland
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