Native Americans

Fort Recovery Museum will host a free two-day event Oct. 19 and 20 called “Beyond the Battlefield." Members and leaders of the Eastern Shawnee, Ottawa, Wyandotte and Miami tribes will be represented at the event.

The podcast looks at why no original tribes remain and how Native American nations are telling their history their own way and reasserting their presence in Ohio.

The podcast looks at why no original tribes remain and how Native American nations are telling their history their own way and reasserting their presence in Ohio.

The U. S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 vote last week, protected the tribal sovereignty and rights of Native American families in adoption and foster-care proceedings involving Native children. We talk about the decision as well as efforts to preserve and honor American Indian artifacts and culture in Ohio.

Some of the roughly 7,100 remains have been at the Ohio History Connection since its founding in 1885. New legal language could allow those ancestors to be laid to rest.

Miami University and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma spent the last year commemorating the 50th anniversary of partnering to learn from each other. University students and staff traveled to the tribe's recent Winter Gathering in Oklahoma — a capstone to the yearlong celebration. WVXU's Tana Weingartner was invited along and brings back this look at what the partnership means to so many.

The solemn program includes a procession across campus and discussion about how the Miami Tribe was forced out of the Great Lakes region, as well as how it is healing.

Democratic lawmakers are sponsoring a resolution they say will help schools make that transition away from using Native American mascots.

The wording in the Cherokee Nation's legal doctrine has been used to exclude Black people whose ancestors were once enslaved by the Cherokees — known as Freedmen — from their full tribal rights.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is vaccinating its community at rates faster than the rest of South Dakota. That mirrors a trend in Indian Country, which has been hard-hit by the coronavirus.