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History has some difficult things to tell us. This week on the Up North Lowdown, two stories about how we remember, heal, and pass our history on to others.
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In 1900, a group of men including a sheriff and a land speculator torched a peaceful Native American settlement, leaving about 25 families homeless. A new book, documents those first people and legal battles that took place around the burn-out.
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Quigno will receive the Legacy Award from the Michigan Legacy Art Park on July 28, 2023.
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The leader of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians will keep his job.Tribal Chairman Sam McClellan was the target of a recall election…
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Kyla Carneiro , the Digital Communication Specialist for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi , joined Stateside to tell us about the tribe's podcast,...
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The name “America” was drawn from the first name of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who died in 1512. But the first inhabitants of what we now...
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You've probably heard of the Trail of Tears, when more than 4,000 Native American men, women, and children died in a series of forced removals from...
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You have probably heard the phrase “school of choice” used when describing public education options in Michigan, but what about a “school of no choice?”...
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For generations, Native Americans in the northern Great Lakes have harvested wild rice. It's an important food source. For some it's a way to make a...