Philip Marcelo May 26, 2021 - 10:21 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) â When Samantha Maltais steps onto Harvardâs campus this fall, sheâll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. Itâs a âfull-circle momentâ for the university and the Marthaâs Vineyard tribe, she says.
More than 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became the first Native American to graduate from the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university â the product of its 1650 charter calling for the education of âEnglish and Indian youth of this country.â Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck1650 charter
âComing from a tribal community in its backyard, Iâm hyper aware of Harvardâs impact,â said Maltais, the 24-year-old daughter of her tribeâs chairwoman. âItâs a symbol of New Englandâs colonial past, this tool of assimilation that pushed Native Ameri
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Great Falls Police Chief Newton gives department update during Council of Councils meeting Nicole Girten, Great Falls Tribune
Newly instated Great Falls Police Chief Jeff Newton gave an update on crime statistics and answered questions during the Council of Councils meeting Tuesday night.
The Council of Councils typically convenes several times a year and invites representatives from all nine neighborhood councils to participate. This was their first meeting of 2021 as the meeting originally scheduled in January was cancelled due to COVID-19 precautions.
Newton gave an overview to the council on trends GFPD is seeing from the data collected in 2020. He gave the caveat that the pandemic complicated how some crimes are reported and therefore reflects some dips and spikes in the data. An example he gave was the apparent dip in reports of child sex offenses in 2020. Newton explained this was due to children not attending school in person, where teachers and coun
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