Indigenous & Pre‑Colonial America

30+ min ago   (1543+ words) PBS Wisconsin Music & Arts Indigenous leaders and allies working with Marquette University and UW-Milwaukee identified graves of at least a dozen Indigenous students at Good Shepherd Industrial School, which was a federally funded Indian boarding school in Milwaukee in the…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (99+ words) During World War Two, the Canadian government stripped more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians of all their possessions, including their homes, and forced them into internment camps for years. Their resilience is now being honoured through a newly unveiled monument in Victoria,…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago   (355+ words) Highlights include free screenings of Forgotten Founder and the annual fashion show. This year’s Indigenous Peoples’ Month celebration is taking an interactive approach to exploring Dartmouth history, with a trivia contest, discussions about Mohegan scholar and minister Samson Occom’s role…...

19+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1471+ words) by Edgar Mendez, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service September 30, 2026 WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago   (332+ words) Published 1:10 pm Sunday, October 4, 2026 Francene Ambrose grew up on the Yakama Indian Reservation and her great-grandmother taught her how to live off the land. Today, Ambrose is helping Native American families in Oregon’s Coast Range understand traditional food ways. “Foods…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (530+ words) Leisure Centre Schedule Details here. Council Meetings, Holiday Hours, Coffee w/ Council & More. Details here. Affinity Place and Power Dodge Arena Details here. For Elder Joanna Potyondi, history isn't something that simply belongs in a book. It is something she…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (355+ words) The Serb National Council gathered survivors and descendants in Sisak to remember the children held in the 1942 camp. A historian recalled that 1,152 deaths were recorded. The gathering took place in a park named after Diana Budisavljevic, the woman who organized…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (784+ words) The Four Directions Stones installation was developed to pay tribute to the Algonquin people and acknowledge the Mississippi River’s significance as a traditional gathering location and vital pathway for Indigenous commerce and travel. It is accompanied by a plaque that…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (115+ words) Prescott Daily Courier We all know who Christopher Columbus was, most of us know the names of the 3 ships that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to arrive in the Caribbean in 1492, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria But who were…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (573+ words) Mark Schachtner has spent about a decade diving Wisconsin lakes, often looking for the sort of things people drop, lose, or simply leave behind. Old beer bottles and medicine bottles are familiar prizes. On a recent dive in Pewaukee Lake,…...