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His mother was Choctaw; his father, Kiowa. In 1975 my father and Sarah Dye, a Shawnee, became the first Native Americans to graduate from Dartmouth College’s medical school. My father was the ...
Dozens sat in wooden pews and white folding chairs on a Saturday morning at the Shawnee Indian Mission for an ... a professor of History and American Studies at the University of Iowa, brought ...
Spring is here, and in response the Shawnee Group of the Sierra Club will be holding their Native Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 ...
For instance, Shawnee guitarist Link Wray ... composed songs protesting the contemporary struggles of Native Americans. Johnny Cash—who had already achieved stardom with his number one country ...
Northeastern State University is set to host the 52nd annual Symposium on the American Indian through April 7-12.
In 2021, Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes called for a federal investigation of all residential Native American boarding schools, including Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, to uncover any children ...