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Anthropology student wants to take knowledge home

Anthropology student wants to take knowledge home

GALLUP, N.M. – Daniel Pedro knew when he was a sophomore at Santa Fe Indian School that he wanted to be an anthropologist. He also knew that as a Zuni, he would not be able to touch human remains – a common task for physical anthropologists. Read more »

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Professor gets $100,000 to uncover history of Moravians, Native Americans in Pa.

Professor gets $100,000 to uncover history of Moravians, Native Americans in Pa.

LEWISBURG, Pa. – Along the shores of the Susquehanna River in upper Appalachia, a group of Moravians from Central Europe formed an unlikely alliance with the Iroquois Indian tribes. Read more »

Values and family create leaders

Values and family create leaders

Norma-Chaé Isaac is a woman on her way. Just 18, and with her senior year of high school still to go, Isaac was halfway through a five-week college-prep stint at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts when she talked to Indian Country Today. She was wearing a pair of lavender and silver beaded earrings she made when we met in a reception room at the school. The setting and the earrings are part of Isaac’s story. Read more »

Killsback finds success in life and legal career by following ‘Mom’s Code’

Killsback finds success in life and legal career by following ‘Mom’s Code’

BOZEMAN, Mont. – Dion Killsback has been a good example for a long time, but the 31-year-old attorney now living in Albuquerque, N.M. said that’s because he had the world’s best mentor – his mom. Read more »

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