Content warning: This story contains mentions of racism. In May 2022, Miigis Curley, a senior at Evanston Township High School, started a petition for her school to allow students to wear culturally significant clothing at their graduations. Her brother, Nimkii Curley, had been stopped from walking at his graduation on the day of the ceremony..
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a package of bills Friday extending cultural protections to Native Americans in Illinois and requiring the teaching of Native American history in public schools. At a bill signing ceremony in Schaumburg, Pritzker highlighted three historic sites that were significant in Native American history in Illinois – the Buel House
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