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Diane Orson is CT Public Radio's Deputy News Director and Southern Connecticut Bureau Chief. For years, hers was the first voice many Connecticut residents heard each day as the local host of Morning Edition. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Here And Now. She is the co-recipient of a Peabody Award. Her work has been recognized by the Connecticut Society for Professi...

IN1754, Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister in Lebanon, Connecticut, organized a small charity school to train young Native American and White men as ministers and teachers.

Dartmouth grapples with its original mission to educate Native American and indigenous students

Samson Occom (1723–1792) was a prominent Mohegan missionary who ministered to New England Indians. This year is the 300th anniversary of his birth.

A biography by David Waldstreicher offers a radical new vision of the life and work of colonial America’s brilliant Black female poet.

Articles from the tag: history

That three-day meal in the autumn of 1621 was less a predictor of future good will among all Americans than a historic aberration.

Americans of all stripes have long embraced the culture of the ancient Mediterranean, using ancient ideals to navigate a new world.

As Connecticut and America emerged from colonial governments to independence, members of local Native American tribes saw the opposite happening to their governance, culture, language and traditions. ...

Lyme ― As the rain trickled down off leaves Sunday in a small opening along Cedar Lake, an Indigenous person was acknowledged for his service in the Revolutionary War. Adam Sobuck, a member of the Neh...