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The cemetery where many of Shawnee citizens are bu The cemetery where many of Shawnee citizens are buried in present-day Shawnee, Kansas has been officially returned to the Shawnee Tribe. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed a bill requiring the Kansa State Historical Society, which owned and operated the cemetery, to return the .5 acre land back to the tribal nation.

Chief Ben Barnes said, “To at least have an acknowledgement that these people in the cemetery are Shawnee citizens, even though they are deceased, and that this parcel is a sacred place for our Shawnee people. And that it’s only right that this is what’s done.”

He called it a “significant day” for efforts to tell the truth of their history. 

The cemetery in Shawnee was created by the Treaty of 1854, which ceded reservations lands in what is now northeast Kansas. It is the resting place of first elected Shawnee Tribe chief, Chief Joseph Parks. 

There were several Shawnee cemeteries in the area, although few still stand today.

Barnes does not know when the state of Kansas took ownership of the cemetery. 

The Shawnee Tribe is amplifying efforts to find unmarked graves on the 2,000 acres plot of land of the Shawnee Indian Mission, which was the boarding school Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School from the 1830s to 1860s. The Nation is partnering with the city of Fairway, Kansas related to these efforts.

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The United States is returning nearly 12,000 acres The United States is returning nearly 12,000 acres of land it took from Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe without their consent.

After the establishment of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe reservation, the Nation was promised they would retain their lands in perpetuity. However, the United States government continued to reduce or alter their land base through new treaties and executive orders including the creation of the Chippewa National Forest in 1928, which includes 85% of the reservation. Today, less than 5% of the land is owned by the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

In 1948, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs incorrectly interpreted a Department of the Interior order to mean it had authority to sell tribal land allotments without the consent of a majority of rightful land owners. 

“They mailed out letters to people. If they didn’t get a response, they took them as ‘Yes’... as approval.” explained LeRoy Staples Fairbanks III, representative for Leech Lake’s District 3. 

By the time the Department of the Interior ended the land sales in 1959, an additional 11,760 acres of land was taken away from the Nation. 

In December 2020, legislation was signed allowing for the return of land.

“[This] is extremely important to our tribe and it will go a long way to restore our limited land base while preserving land for future generations,” said Faron Jackson Sr., Leech Lake tribal chairperson at a 2018 legislative hearing. 

“A robust land base is the foundation of tribal sovereignty, and self determination lands from [lands within] the geographic reach of our jurisdiction supports our tribal population.” 

“It is the basis of our economy, and provides an irreplaceable forum for our cultural vitality and practices.”

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Centuries before we had American Sign Language, Native sign languages, broadly known as “Hand Talk,” were thriving across North America. Hand Talk would be influential in the formation of American Sign Language. But it has largely been written out of history. 

One of these Hand Talk variations, Plains Indian Sign Language, was used so widely across the Great Plains that it became a lingua franca — a universal language used by both deaf and hearing people to communicate among tribes that didn’t share a common spoken language. At one point, tens of thousands of indigenous people used Plains Indian Sign Language, or PISL, for everything from trade to hunting, conflict, storytelling, and rituals. 

But by the late 1800s, the federal government had implemented a policy that would change the course of indigenous history forever: a violent boarding school program designed to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into white American culture — a dark history that we’re still learning more about to this day. 

Because of a forced “English-only” policy, the boarding school era is one of the main reasons we lost so many Native signers — along with the eventual dominance of ASL in schools for the deaf. 

Today, there are just a handful of fluent PISL signers left in the US. In the piece above we hear from two of these signers who have dedicated their lives to studying and revitalizing the language. They show us PISL in action, and help us explore how this ancient language holds centuries of indigenous history. 

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Last updated on February 4, 2022

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Povos Indígenas no Brasil Website

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Nota técnica de país sobre cuestiones de los pueblos indígenas – REPÚBLICA FEDERATIVA DEL BRASIL

Sacred Land Film Project: Xingu River System

Guerreiro Júnior, A., R. (2012). Ancestrais e suas sombras: uma etnografia da chefia kalapalo e seu ritual mortuário.

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