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October 13, 2023 | 4:11 PM

Pennsylvania seeks to expand public awareness of its Indigenous culture and history

By The Associated Press
Event Date: 20231005

Sneak Peek: The American Buffalo: A Film by Ken Burns

By Staff
April 12, 2023 | 7:00 PM

Changing Planet Returns to Monitor Changes in Earth’s Most Vulnerable Ecosystems

Changing Planet revisits six of our planet’s most vulnerable ecosystems.

By Christina Zeiders

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October 11, 2022 | 5:17 AM

Free tuition for Indigenous people to public universities across Pennsylvania? A bill is on the way

“I think this is important, because how we treat our most marginalized says a lot about where we are as a nation.”

By Kenny Cooper/WHYY
May 22, 2022 | 8:49 AM

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland seeks healing for Native American boarding school survivors

U.S. officials identified at least 53 schools with marked or unmarked burial sites with the remains of children who died there.

By MIchel Martin, Tinbette Ermyas, and Kira Wakeam/NPR
May 6, 2022 | 3:05 PM

Millersville exhibit brings attention to missing and murdered indigenous women

By Scott LaMar/WITF
October 10, 2021 | 11:49 AM

As Miss Navajo Nation, she helped her community through the pandemic

The honor became a two-year job

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Deepa Shivaram/NPR
September 30, 2021 | 11:36 AM

This new Canadian holiday reflects on the legacy of Indigenous residential schools

The holiday commemorates the roughly 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken from their families and forced to attend boarding schools in an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society.

By Rachel Treisman/NPR
October 11, 2020 | 9:59 PM

Ahead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, activists in Philly suburbs call for more than marching

After a summer of protests, a group of racial justice activists in Montgomery County is pushing for changes to school curricula, among other demands.

By Ximena Conde/WHYY
October 14, 2019 | 5:06 PM

In honor of Columbus Day, one lawmaker wants to get rid of it once and for all

More and more states are opting to celebrate indigenous people instead of Christopher Columbus. Representative Chris Rabb is pitching a version of that change for Pennsylvania.
By Katie Meyer/WITF