As Connecticut and America emerged from colonial governments to independence, members of local Native American tribes saw the opposite happening to their governance, culture, language and traditions.
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Long before the first visitor stepped onto the shores of a beautiful “New World” there were vibrant communities of Indigenous people throughout the continent who had experienced centuries of culture,.
Scholar, artist, and curator Royce K. Young Wolf will help steward Yale’s collections of art and artifacts relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America.
A piece of history returns home to the Mohegan Tribe. Dartmouth College returned the Samson Occum papers last week, written by the Mohegan minister and academic.