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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Chester County is the ancestral home of the Lenape people, who occupied this land for thousands of years before Europeans arrived As more and more European settlers began encroaching on their land, the Lenape people were systematically, and in many cases, forcefully removed. Eventually, most were driven as far west as Oklahoma, where they merged with the Cherokee Nation. Learn more about the Lenape people at Lenape-nation.org. We are privileged to live and work on the land we now occupy and wish to acknowledge the Lenape people and their land.

Indian Child Welfare Act faces test before the U.S. Supreme Court

As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Indigenous Child Welfare Act, many Native Americans anxiously await the outcome. The law governs the removal of Native American children from their homes and where they are subsequently placed. It's an effort to keep them with other family members and their tribes. teresting about your business here.

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Indian Child Welfare Act

The act, passed in 1978, protects Native children by keeping them connected to their families

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

National Day of Mourning.

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

Wampanoag leader Wamsutta AKA Frank James

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

Wampanoag leader Wamsutta AKA Frank James

Wampanoag leader Wamsutta AKA Frank James was silenced (1971) about giving a speech on the uncomfortable truth of the 1st Thanksgiving during the Celebrations organized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Wamsutta , along with his followers refused to be part of the celebration.

WAMSUTTA (FRANK B.) JAMES, WAMPANOAG

Suppressed Speech

NOVEMBER 18–25, 2022

The museum’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Indigenous film. Embracing their communities’ oral histories, knowledge and ancestral lands, Indigenous filmmakers are seeking guidance from the past and envisioning new paths for the future. The showcase provides a unique forum for engagement with filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic.

National Museum of the American Indian *Smithsonian

National Native American Heritage Month

A Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2022

"America has not always delivered on its promise of equal dignity and respect for Native Americans. For centuries, broken treaties, dispossession of ancestral lands, and policies of assimilation and termination sought to decimate Native populations and their ways of life. But despite this painful history, Indigenous peoples, their governments, and their communities have persevered and flourished." Read more...

President Biden

November is National American Indian Heritage Month

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

we honor, celebrate and respect

Indian Child Welfare Act faces test before the U.S. Supreme Court

Indian Child Welfare Act

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

National Day of Mourning.

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

Wampanoag leader Wamsutta AKA Frank James

U.S. Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.

Wampanoag leader Wamsutta AKA Frank James

NOVEMBER 18–25, 2022

National Native American Heritage Month

A Proclamation on National Native American Heritage Month, 2022