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Indigenous Founders of a Museum Cafe Put Repatriation on the Menu

BERKELEY, Calif. — One of Vincent Medina’s most vivid memories as a youngster is of a class exploring his ancestry as a member of...

Best Art of 2022

Holland CotterExhibitions Ride Winds of ChangeStill in recovery from Covid lockdown, art museums in 2022 tried hard to pull traffic through the door. This...

A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose.

PARIS — With its monumental Art Deco facade overlooking the Eiffel Tower, the Musée de l’Homme, or Museum of Mankind, is a Paris landmark....

Buffy Sainte-Marie Broke Boundaries in Folk. A Documentary Tells Her Story.

By that time, music wasn’t Sainte-Marie’s only outlet. She was cast in an episode of the popular western TV series “The Virginian,” but she...

Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes

Both the Navajo and the Brackeens appealed. A state appellate court ordered a new trial.Meanwhile, the federal case made its tortuous way through two...

At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water

In a transfixing two-minute video called “River (The Water Serpent)” in the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing we see a drone shot of a snow-flecked...

A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement

FORT GARLAND, Colo. — On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue reckoning took place in the commandant’s quarters at Fort Garland Museum & Cultural...

Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe’s Ancestral Home

For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island Indian Community calls home,...

M.L.B. Commissioner Can’t Hear Native Voices Over Atlanta’s Chop

“Then there are people like me,” she said. “We’re saying what the Braves do is humiliating. It makes it easier for our communities to...

Indian Health Service Reverses Policy on Black Natives

The Indian Health Service announced this week that Black Native Americans in the Seminole Nation, known as the Freedmen, will now be eligible for...

Indian Health Service ‘Willfully Ignored’ Sexual Abuse by Doctor, Report Finds

WASHINGTON — An independent report commissioned by the Indian Health Service found that officials at the federal agency silenced and punished whistle-blowers in an...

For Tribal Members in Oklahoma, Medicaid Expansion Improves Access to Specialty Care

“This worked out perfectly,” she said. “We would not have been able to continue to see Dr. Ward and continue care with him if...

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