In Trust: A Bloomberg Podcast

• Dozens of Osages were murdered for their share of lucrative mineral rights to this oil-rich land, a period often referred to as the Reign of Terror. But other transfers of wealth played out more subtly, helped along by policies created by the US government.

The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee

• The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruled the tribal nation should remove the phrase “by blood” from its constitution and other tribal laws. That change would give descendants of Black people once enslaved by the tribe – known as the Cherokee Freedmen – the right to tribal citizenship

Written out of existence? Native Americans in Kentucky push for recognition of culture

• Since the 1700s, Kentucky has been mythologized as the “Dark and Bloody Ground,” a pass-through region where Native American tribes battled and hunted, but never settled. But archeological evidence and current-day census data shows Kentucky has a long, rich history of indigenous people living here.

Native American communities have the highest suicide rates, yet interventions are scarce

• Non-Hispanic Indigenous people in the United States die by suicide at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The suicide rate among Montana’s Native American youth is more than five times the statewide rate for the same age group

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Once a Roadside Attraction, a Native Burial Site Nears Repatriation​

• Centuries-old grave mounds in Illinois became a flashpoint in the debate over displaying Native American remains. Now, tribes are close to seeing them reburied.

A new national park to reclaim Indigenous land

• In a part of the United States with more than 17,000 years of human history, cultural preservation advocate Tracie Revis is working to turn the Ocmulgee Mounds into Georgia's first national park and preserve. 

Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson, on view at the Venice Biennale

• Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, is the first Indigenous artist to be chosen to represent the United States solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale​

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Tribes Need Tax Revenue, States Keep Taking It

• ​State and local governments often tax economic activity on tribal land, reducing what tribes can collect to fund services for their citizens. It’s the latest variation on centuries of wealth extraction.

Native American children face years of abuse at boarding schools

• ​​For decades, Catholic priests, brothers and sisters raped or molested Native American children who were taken from their homes by the U.S. government and forced to live at remote boarding schools, a Post investigation found.

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