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Thirty Years Ago?
Thirty years ago. 2 Miami High School students accompanied me to Rhode Island to the National Service-Learning Conference. Students had been involved with Service-Learning since the day Nancy Scott with Cherokee Nation had brought the concept and funding for the work they would do a couple of years earlier.
For over ten years students were involved either directly with the Cherokee Volunteer Society (open to all) or in their classrooms applying what they were learning as the
Rebecca Jim
Oct 53 min read
Advocacy Groups Host Free Screenings of Nuclear Waste Documentary ‘To Use a Mountain’ in Parsons and Kansas City
Community advocacy organizations in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are teaming up to host free public screenings of the award-winning documentary, “To Use a Mountain,” in order to highlight the growing push for nuclear energy throughout the Tri-State region.
The documentary will be screened at 7:30pm on Saturday, July 11 at the Municipal Theater, 112 S. 17th St. in Parsons, Kan. and at 7pm on Sunday, July 12 at the Stray Cat Film Center, 1662 Broadway Blvd. in Kansas City,
Kim Barker
Jul 74 min read
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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
The Indian in Me
There was a phrase I heard used by my mother’s mother. Maude Bradshaw. She was my size, and my mother’s size, so of course I deemed her my Little Grandma. Maude was a stern mother to her 6 children. Her words became legendary in our family and many of her practical ways are part of my life. My Big Grandma was Cherokee and was a big woman, who I never heard claim knowledge from her heritage. Not like my Little Grandma who had a single black braid that when it wasn’t wrapped ar
Rebecca Jim
Feb 123 min read
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