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Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 22 October 2013.

Phone: 508-645-9265
Email: chairwoman@wampanoagtribe.net
Website: http://www.wampanoagtribe.net/Pages/index

Federal Recognition

In 1987, the Gay Head Wampanoags received federal recognition, the only tribe in Massachusetts to do so. Such recognition has been extremely important to the tribe, bringing with it the return of tribal lands, federal grants to build housing and administrative offices, and strengthening its rights to... Read more about Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, Inc.

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 26 June 2018.

Phone: 617-642-1683
Email: mcnaa@aol.com
Website: http://www.mcnaa.org/
Description The Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, Inc. was founded by Burne Stanley in 1989. The primary purpose of the Center is to provide cultural, spiritual, and social services to the Native American Peoples of Massachusetts. Secondly, the Center promotes and preserves the cultural and traditional ways of the Native Americans of... Read more about Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, Inc.

North American Indian Center of Boston

Information about this center is no longer updated. This data was last updated on 10 July 2018.

Phone: 617-232-0343
Email: info@naicob.org
Website: http://www.naicob.org/
Activities Founded in 1991 as a non-profit corporation, the Center provides services to the over 5,000 Native Americans in the Boston area. Current programs include a Job Training Partnership Association, a Vocational Social Services program, a Community Health Plan, Tecumseh House (a drop-in counseling facility for Native Americans with substance... Read more about North American Indian Center of Boston

Recreational Use Of Sacred Sites Damaging to Spirituality

July 21, 2009

Author: Victor Morales

Source: Indian Country Today

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/51025287.html

Randy Luden scaled a mountain of boulders etched with dozens of petroglyphs that could be thousands of years old, hoping to get as close as possible to the records of a past civilization. The Las Vegas man didn’t think he was damaging the representations made by descendants of Mojave Indians because he was careful and wore...

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Diverse Coalition Supports American Indian Kindergartner’s Right to Freely Exercise His Religion

July 13, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: WebWire

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=99117

The ACLU’s fight to stop a Texas school district from punishing a five-year old student for wearing his long hair in braids as an expression of his American Indian heritage and beliefs has drawn support from a diverse group of American Indian tribes and scholars, religious freedom organizations and representatives of a variety of faith traditions.

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Tibetan Monks, Maidu Native Americans Celebrate Similar Cultural Experiences

July 8, 2009

Author: Don Baumgart

Source: Indian Country Today

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/49709412.html

For the second year, visiting Tibetan monks and members of the Tsi-Akim Maidu Tribe shared an evening of culture.

The monks are members of the Gaden Shartse Monastery, currently exiled to India to escape Chinese government repression in their homeland.

Six monks in red and saffron robes were joined on stage by Maidu...

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Environmentalists Lose Appeal Of Landfill Near Ancient Burial Site

June 23, 2009

Author: Jim Suhr

Source: Indian Country

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2092&Itemid=72

An independent pollution-control agency has rejected environmentalists’ claims that a planned landfill could desecrate possible burial grounds near the ruins of a once-thriving prehistoric city.

The Illinois Sierra Club and American Bottom Conservancy failed to show that...

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