Mitchel Ray News Today

State Sen. Heather Somers, D-Groton, has applauded an announcement that more than $900,000 in state grants will be awarded to recipients in her district: the Eastern Pequot Tribe of North Stonington, ...

Southeastern Connecticut’s Indian tribes hailed Friday a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, whose provisions the Connecticut legislature adopted as part of sta...

The mother of the 31-year-old Eastern Pequot Tribal member allegedly shot and killed by his cousin in 2017 has started an online petition in an attempt to gain wider public attention to the lack of pr...

“Disturbing” and “absurd” are just a couple of the words Katherine Sebastian Dring uses to describe the lack of prosecution against the man accused of murder in her son’s shooting death. Her son, 31-y...

Recent legislation signed by Governor Ned Lamont mandated that school districts include Native American studies in kindergarten through 12th grade social studies courses, starting in the fall of 2023.

Representatives from Connecticut’s five sovereign tribal nations, the governor and other state leaders met in Hartford Wednesday to announce a historic collaboration between the Native American tribes and the Connecticut State Department of Education to put forth a new Native American studies model curriculum for primary and secondary students.

Recent legislation signed by Governor Ned Lamont mandated that school districts include Native American studies in kindergarten through 12th grade social studies courses, starting in the fall of 2023.

After more than a quarter-century operating businesses that serve as economic engines for the region and the state, employing thousands of people and providing millions of dollars to worthy causes, th...

Federal recognition. In the context of Indian tribes, the term connotes acknowledgment, acceptance and, above all else, leaders of southeastern Connecticut’s tribes say, respect. It’s of no small cons...

With Election Day coming up next week, education and land sovereignty are among the most important issues for Indigenous nations in Connecticut.