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Milwaukee is home to the largest concentration of Native Americans in Wisconsin. As the midterm elections approach, events are taking place around the city and state to encourage Native Americans to vote.
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The dugout canoe discovered most recently in a lake is believed to be the earliest direct evidence of water transportation used by native tribes in the Great Lakes region.
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Doors Open is offering some app-based walking tours including a new one this year featuring Indigenous spaces in the city.
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Mark Freeland comes to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from South Dakota State University. He is coming on board just as the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education receives a major $3 million gift from Bader Philanthropies.
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An unusual flotilla set out last week starting in Madison and ending 40 nautical miles downstream in the Rock River in Beloit. It featured a hand-hewn dugout canoe, fashioned after those used by long-ago ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
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Sean Sherman has cooked in kitchens across the United States and Mexico for over three decades. He now focuses his work on the revitalization of Indigenous food systems.
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Wisconsin tribal members and officials gathered at the state Capitol Thursday to mark National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.
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The Democratic incumbent Governor uses an executive order to bypass GOP opposition.
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Gaming plays a major role in how Wisconsin tribes figure out their annual budgets and when COVID-19 forced casinos to close their doors, it pushed Wisconsin’s eleven federally recognized tribes to face a long awaited challenge: how to diversify their economies away from gaming.
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An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to call attention to the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.