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The WYSO Race Project invites two everyday people from the Miami Valley to talk about their life experiences through the prism of skin color. These conversations can be difficult and controversial but they also can build understanding and healing.
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A new history exhibit attempts to shed light on the complicated story for tribal communities following a battle that took place here over two centuries ago.
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The new Ohio River Valley Splash-Pad water park in northeastern Oklahoma is keeping kids cool this summer, and helping Eastern Shawnee citizens feel a connection to their homelands.
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It was the first public preview of something unique the non-profit is trying to bring to the region: more accurate, historical storytelling with actors who are citizens of federally recognized tribes.
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The non-profit, whose mission is to tell historically accurate stories with actors who are citizens of federally recognized tribes, is in the middle of a fundraising campaign to launch a Shawnee Living History Tour sometime next year.
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Hundreds of biology professionals and students gathered in Columbus for the 2023 Ohio Botanical Symposium last week. The special address, “The Roots of Culture: The Relationship between Native Plants and Native People of the Midwest,” was given by Yellow Springs resident and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Cultural Programs Manager Talon Silverhorn.
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Shelly Watson and Talon Silverhorn are demonstrating the late eighteenth century way of making maple sugar from a Shawnee perspective this month.
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New bus wrap design in Oxford "reminds people that the Miami Tribe is from this land and still here"A bus on Miami University's campus has a new, special design that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the relationship between the institution and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.
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A federal law from 1990 requires public institutions like museums and universities to return Native American artifacts — hundreds of thousands of human remains, funerary objects and other items. Ohio's historical society, called Ohio History Connection, holds the second largest collection of objects in the country.
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Laveena Wolf Lichtenfels and Thomas Lavergne share an oral history of the Shawnee people — how they were divided as Americans pushed them from their land, and how Chief Tecumseh took a stand when others wouldn’t. Lichtenfels and Lavergne, who are Shawnee, shared their stories with Hope Taft near the Old Shawnee Principle Village on the Little Miami River.
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Gary Victor interviews Guy Jones of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans.
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Indian Country Today's Mary Annette Pember said members of the Shawnee feel they are beginning to reclaim the mound that their ancestors built. Members of the tribe visited the mound last month during the summer solstice after being invited by the Ohio History Connection.