Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, the welcome center at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, is slated to open this summer. Designed in collaboration with Wabanaki leaders, it is one of the first major efforts in the state to boost Indigenous tourism.
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An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education showed progress has been made at Arizona State University (ASU) in recruiting Native American faculty and students to the Tempe campus. Arizona is home to more than 20 tribes and about 400,000 Indigenous citizens, but until the late 1990s they were underrepresented at state universities. ASU founded the Center for Indian Education about 20 years ago in response to a growing number of Indigenous students on campus. .
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I heard about the Maine Indian land claims suit and naively assumed things would work out well for the Indians. Years later (after I’d moved away and then come back again), I still had not learned that Maine’s Native American communities were missing out on essential federal […]