BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) – Eleanor “Ellie” Hamilton Povah grew up in the 1920s and ‘30s spending every summer in Yellowstone National Park, and remembers watching her father trade with American Indians for beautiful baskets and beadwork in the family’s Hamilton Stores. “They used to come into the park, driving,” Povah recalled. Indians would bring beadwork, [...]
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On November 2, New York First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson presented a proclamation from Governor David A. Paterson to honor the Native people of New York during the opening ceremony of Lenape: Ellis Island’s First Inhabitants at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. The opening, sponsored by the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial (HFCQ) and hosted [...]
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