The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
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CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schoo…
This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows the student card of Elsie Davis, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School on May 21, 1890, and died on July 16, 1893. (Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center via AP)
The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts sought by Indigenous communities in Canada. It's part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church’s troubled role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. The items, including an Inuit kayak, are part of the Vatican Museum’s ethnographic collection, known as the Anima Mundi museum. The collection has been a source of controversy for the Vatican amid the broader museum debate over the restitution of cultural artifacts taken from Indigenous peoples during colonial periods. Officials say negotiations are proceeding positively and that an announcement could come from the Vatican in a few weeks.
FILE - Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwaci, the former Ermineskin Residential School, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Maskwacis, Alberta. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Officials say one of the “most significant” airlifts in Alaskan history is underway following a devastating typhoon. Hundreds of people are being evacuated by helicopter, military transport plane and yellow school buses carrying them from coastal towns devastated by last weekend's storm. Officials announced the airlifts Wednesday. Some villages on the state’s southwest coast were inundated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong last weekend. The storm slammed into coastal communities, bringing record-high water in some areas. Many homes were swept away, some with people still inside. At one point the storm left about 1,500 residents in makeshift shelters. One person died and two are still missing.
Officials in Alaska are rushing to find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong. But the remote location and severe damage are limiting their options as they race against other impending storms and the onset of winter. High winds and storm surge seawater battered low-lying, isolated Alaska Native communities in the southwestern part of the state over the weekend. The Coast Guard plucked two dozen people from their homes after the structures floated out to sea in high water, three people were missing or dead, and hundreds of people were staying in school shelters — including one with no working toilets, officials said. Across the region more than 1,500 people were displaced.
From Seattle to Baltimore, many Americans were celebrating Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day, determined to see it as a triumph of perseverance…
FILE - A member of the Grupo Coatlicue blows on a conch shell during a performance of a traditional Aztec dance, an agricultural prayer ceremony in motion, during an Indigenous Peoples' Day event, Oct. 14, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
FILE - Youth hold a banner as they lead a celebratory march for Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, file)