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American Indians

NashVillager Podcast: Reclaiming Nashville’s Shawnee history

Nina Cardona

August 9, 2024

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What does a proposed name change say about the complexity of Nashville’s Native history?

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: American Indians, Andrew Jackson, Cherokee, Cumberland River, history, Indigenous, Indigenous history, Metro Parks, Native American, Shawnee

Exploring Middle Tennessee’s native roots and what it means to be indigenous

Rose Gilbert

April 7, 2022

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Nashville has a rich indigenous history that dates back to the last ice age, as well as a small but vibrant Native American community that is working to gain recognition and resources in Middle Tennessee.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: American Indians, Native American, Native American Indian Association of Tennessee

This Native American Heritage Month, a Nashville gallery is celebrating with a photography exhibit that indigenizes colonized spaces

Cynthia Abrams

November 25, 2021

COOP Curatorial Collective is celebrating National Native American Heritage Month by bringing more context to Thanksgiving with an exhibit from Apsáalooke (Crow) photographer Adam Sings in the Timber called “Reclaim: Indigenizing Colonized Spaces.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Adam Sings in the Timber, American Indians, Art, Arts and Culture, COOP Gallery, Indigenous, Native American

Centuries after the Trail of Tears, Tennesseans honor the legacy of tribal members

Damon Mitchell

November 24, 2021

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Tribal members were forced to leave their homelands — including Tennessee — and relocate west of the Mississippi River.

Filed Under: History, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: American Indians

Native American activists call for archeological digging at future Oracle site

Ambriehl Crutchfield

October 27, 2021

Native American activists in Nashville are urging Oracle to delay construction so archaeologists can dig. They believe the tech company’s future River North campus will sit on what could be the site of Native American burials and artifacts.

Filed Under: History, Metro, Race & Equity Tagged With: Albert Bender, American Indians, Cumberland River, National Historic Preservation Act, Oracle, Phil Hodge, River North

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