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Learn about Seattle’s public Indigenous art, the country’s first distillery on reservation land and a housing project rooted in Native culture.

Learn about Seattle’s public Indigenous art, the country’s first distillery on reservation land and a housing project rooted in Native culture.

Sentencing is set for Sept. 9 for former Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell, who was convicted of bribery on Thursday.

The Indian Intercourse Act of 1834 — intended to regulate trade and “preserve the peace on the frontiers” — made the manufacturing of liquor in “Indian Country” illegal. Nearly 200 years later, the first Native-owned distillery on U.S. reservation land opened in Washington state.

Indigenous nations have been an afterthought in U.S. water policy for over a century. That was all part of the plan.