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Ohio History Connection partners with the Shawnee Tribe and the Eastern Shawnee of Oklahoma for a weekend of events at Serpent Mound in Adams County. ....
Federal officials distributed CARES Act funding to tribes by using data that left some tribes out. Tribal leaders say the issue still isn't fixed. ....
Shawnee Chief Ben Barnes grieved for people who died every week from COVID-19. When families called the tribe to help pay for funerals, Barnes had to turn them down. The U.S. Treasury Department counted the tribe’s population as zero instead of 3,100 when it distributed CARES Act relief funding a year ago. Bad data forced Barnes and other tribal leaders across the U.S. to respond to the pandemic with little federal aid. During the worst point of the pandemic in northeast Oklahoma, Barnes said he learned about new infections every day and two to four deaths a week. ....
Tribal governments in Oklahoma at a glance Staff reports Address: 2025 S Gordon Cooper Drive, Shawnee, OK 74801 Contact: 405-275-4030, www.astribe.com Did you know? The Absentee Shawnee Tribe was one of the first seven tribes in the U.S. to become a self-governing nation during the 1990s. Alabama Quassarte Tribal Town Address: 101 E Broadway, P.O. Box 187 Wetumka, OK 74883 Contact: 405-452-3987, www.alabama-quassarte.org Did you know? The Hernando de Soto expedition first encountered the Alabamas in northern Mississippi in 1540 and the Koasati in their island town on the Tennessee River. Apache Tribe of Oklahoma Address: P.O. Box 1330, Anadarko, OK 73005 ....
The Association on American Indian Affairs sent a letter to University President Lawrence S. Bacow in February alleging Harvard is in violation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and “has caused continuing physical, emotional and spiritual trauma to Native Nations and their citizens.” The letter accused Harvard and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of several legal and ethical missteps in its handling of Native American human remains and cultural objects, including failing to consult with Native American tribal nations when completing inventories of those collections, as NAGPRA mandates. Congress passed NAGPRA in 1990 to require any institutions that receive federal funding to inventory the remains of Native American people and their funerary objects, in consultation with any tribes that have “a possible cultural or geographical affiliation,” to notify the public of the possession of the items, and to transfer the items to t ....