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A scene from the documentary “We Will Speak.”

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‘We Will Speak’: South Arts educates audiences with inspiring Cherokee language documentary

On April 7, Atlanta-based regional arts organization South Arts showcased the 2023 documentary Dadiwonisi (We Will Speak  at the Plaza Theatre. 

April 10, 2024
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  • Holyn Thigpen
The U.S. Capitol is seen at dusk, January 21, 2018 in Washington, DC.

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Congress holds first ever hearing on a congressional seat for the Cherokee Nation

The historic move is the closest the federal government is toward satisfying a promise it made to the Cherokee Nation nearly 200 years ago.

November 18, 2022
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  • Giulia Heyward
Tracie Revis, left, a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and Seth Clark, mayor pro-tem of Macon, stand at the approach to the Earth Lodge, where Native Americans held council meetings for 1,000 years until their forced removal in the 1820s, on Aug. 22, 2022, in Macon, Ga. Revis and Clark are co-directors of an initiative to bring 50 miles of the Ocmulgee River under federal protection as a national park.

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The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia

Hundreds of Native Americans returned to their historic capital in Macon, Georgia, this weekend for the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration. Nearly 200 years after the last Creek Indians were forcibly removed to Oklahoma to make way for slave labor in the Deep South, citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation are celebrating their survival. They're also supporting an initiative to put the National Park Service in charge of protecting the heart of the Creek Confederacy.

September 21, 2022
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Robert Peterson holds a photo of his late mother, Yong Ae Yue, on Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Atlanta. Yue was one of eight people shot and killed at various massage businesses on March 16, 2021, in the Atlanta area. Many family members and friends of the victims have been struggling with grief, trying to heal and making sure their loved ones aren't forgotten.

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A year later, spa shooting victims' families grieve and heal

In the year since a gunman killed eight people at three Georgia massage businesses, the family members and friends of the victims have been struggling with grief, trying to heal and making sure their loved ones aren't forgotten.

March 16, 2022
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Exploring Gold's Legacy In Georgia

An exhibit at the University of Georgia highlights items from the state’s gold rush. Wright State Environmental History Professor Drew Swanson calls the...

November 16, 2017
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  • Ryan McFadin

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