July 25, 2008
Indian Country: The State of the Nations
Photo Essay: Newsday's Alejandra Villa Chronicles the State of the Nations
Newsday's Alejandra Villa chronicles the many faces of Native Americans in the United States.
A Nation Divided
Kenneth Chambers, chief of the Seminole Nation, is absolutely sure of the truth of the matter.
Survival of Tribes at Stake
The Nicholases are buried here. So are the Stevens and the Danas. The Soctomahs and the Socobasins.
Tribal Colleges Spread, Marking Slow Progress
When Sitting Bull College officials wanted to build student housing, they didn't have a roster of wealthy alumni to bankroll the project.
School Immerses Mohawk Children In Traditional Language
There's a small school in the far north of New York where English is a foreign language. The tongue taught here is Mohawk.
A Betrayal of Trust
His land is a treasury of America's natural wealth, 118 acres of grazing grass, crop soil and oil percolating underground.
Celebrating Their Service to U.S.
The words were issued like awards: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq. With each evocation of an American war, Indian soldiers proudly fell into formation at the center of a circle of thousands.
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A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories.
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The fight for civil rights
The local and national struggle
Forty-eight years after the Greensboro sit-in sparked a movement, we reflect on local leaders, then and now, doing their part to push for equality.
