Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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(WARM SPRINGS, Ore., Nov. 1, 2022) — In 1990, United States President George H.W. Bush signed Joint Resolution 577 designating November as the first National American Indian Heritage Month. The joint resolution read: “American Indians were the original inhabitants of the lands that now constitute the United States of America.” It was the first such official statement, which has been signed every year by a sitting president. At The Museum at Warm Springs, we celebrate our unique cultures, traditions, histories, arts and languages every month...
On the day that many of us grew up knowing as "Columbus Day," I am reflecting on how things have changed for Native peoples in the United States. The Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere have come a long way from the dark times that began in the 15th century with Columbus' arrival in what he called the "New World." Once numbering more than 110 million, approximately 95% of Native peoples were exterminated due to warfare, clashes over land and resources, and imported diseases. Just 250,000 of...
