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...powwow aims to both bring Native Americans together and to welcome in people who may have far less experience of these events. Cesar Alvarez ’13, an event organizer who is affiliated with the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes, says that one of the Powwow’s key goals is to show the importance of native culture to Harvard. Since this year marks the 15th anniversary of the Powwow, the 40th anniversary of HUNAP, and the 360th anniversary of the signing of the Harvard Charter—which stated the young university’s commitment...
...Obama has claimed that people who oppose higher taxes are selfish and equated paying taxes to donating to charity. America is not about equality of outcome, comrade. It's about equality of opportunity. Jim Gleason, Mandan, North Dakota...
...Mandan, North Dakota Incident: A man was arrested after threatening a judge and attorney with a knife inside Mandan City Hall Security: There was no security at the building's two entrances, although police officers were present in municipal courtrooms...
Many of those graves are Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, village tribes that lived along the Missouri in what is now Standing Rock, when the Sioux were nomadic warriors. But with smallpox decimating their ranks, the Indian farmers were herded north to Fort Berthold reservation. There they rebuilt their villages, only to be displaced again in 1953 when Garrison Dam flooded their rich bottomlands. If they see an opportunity in the Lewis and Clark commemoration, it is because culture and economics are intertwined. The image of Amy Mossett dressed up as Sacagawea graces North Dakota tourist posters, but she says...
Like many Native Americans, Mossett is reviving traditional culture in her daily life. Three years ago she began cultivating a garden with a tribal elder to replicate the ancient crops that Lewis and Clark once enjoyed. "You can't buy Mandan blue flour corn in the grocery store," she says. She is taking a course in porcupine-quill embroidery. And her teenage daughters are studying the Hidatsa language in school. "Our tribes have survived catastrophic events in the past 200 years," she says. "But if we grieve forever, we will never move forward...