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Indigenous

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

With major infrastructure costs and mounting concerns from Indigenous leaders, here’s where the East Bank development stands

Cynthia Abrams

January 24, 2024

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This week, city officials offered a rare glimpse into planning for the East Bank development. 

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Bob Mendes, East Bank, East Bank Development, Indigenous, Indigenous history, Indigenous rights, metro, Nissan Stadium, Tennessee Titans, Titans stadium

Out, About: Where to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day and beyond

Rachel Iacovone

October 6, 2023

The week before Columbus Day, sometime in early elementary school, I came home and started to proudly recite the poem I’d just learned: “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean bl–” My mom cut me off.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, NashVillager, Out About, Race & Equity Tagged With: Indigenous, Indigenous history, Native American, Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, Pow wow

A forthcoming Native American-owned coffee shop hopes to make it easier to support indigenous communities

Paige PflegerandMarianna Bacallao

December 2, 2021

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The mission of Neon Moon is to make supporting the I in BIPOC as easy as buying a cup of coffee.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Business, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Business, coffee, Dolly Parton, Indigenous, Native American, small business

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

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