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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Indiana State University hosted over 100 educators and other professionals Friday for a statewide conference. This is the first time ISU hosted the Indiana Council for Social Studies conference. The group's mission is to promote and improve social studies education across Indiana. The Indiana Council for the Social Studies (ICSS) [...]

Sacheen Littlefeather, who claimed to be Apache and whose 1973 speech at the Academy Awards denounced the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood, faked her racial identity for decades, her sisters allege.

Sacheen Littlefeather, who claimed to be Apache and whose 1973 speech at the Academy Awards denounced the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood, faked her racial identity for decades, her sisters allege.

The activist’s surviving siblings say she lied about her abusive childhood and living in poverty, and likely took her name from 4-H project.

On this month's show---Thanksgiving. Essentially, why do we still celebrate this racist, colonial holiday? Thanksgiving perpetuates white supremacy and romanticized notions about Indigenous Peoples. To celebrate the current Thanksgiving mythology is to celebrate the theft of land through ethnic cleansing and enslavement. Today I interview three Indigenous guests who are pushing back at Thanksgiving through protest or alternative celebrations.