When will we ever learn? The Charlottesville area has just spent the past few months, the past few years, addressing our long history of racism, destruction of communities, and eradication of the cultures of entire populations in the name of progress, capitalism, and increasing the wealth of a few.
Thank you, Daily Progress, for the recent articles and editorials covering the pumping station controversy at Rassawek/Point of Fork. For those unfamiliar with the topic,
Members of the Monacan Indian Nation and their supporters appeared before the James River Water Authority on Tuesday (Aug 13) to protest a planned water pumping station atop what they believe to be the site of the historic settlement of Rassawek.
Representatives of the Monacan Nation took their case against the James River Water Project directly to their opponents on Tuesday, demanding that the pipeline be moved from the former site of the tribe’s capital city.
Dozens of people turned out Tuesday morning in Louisa County to protest proposed construction along the James River. Controversy surrounds the construction as protesters say the proposed site infringes on a historic Native American tribal site.
Monacan Indian Nation members and their supporters spoke out Tuesday against a planned water project in Fluvanna County.
The James River Water Authority is under fire for choosing a historically significant Native American site — as its former capitol, the most significant to the Monacan nation — as the location for a new water pumping station.
Many of us were moved by the op-ed written by Pamela Thompson of the Monacan Indian Nation (“Major Monacan site imperiled by ‘progress,’” The Daily Progress, June 23) about the proposed construction of a water pumping station at the Point of Forks in Fluvanna County.
I am writing in reference to the proposed construction by the James River Water Authority of a water pumping station at Point of Fork, the confluence of the Rivanna and James rivers.
In 1612 when John Smith drew his Map of Virginia, he recorded an Indian town at the fork of the Rivanna and James rivers, called Rassawek. Smith learned that Rassawek was the capital of the Monacan people: All Monacan towns sent their tribute to Rassawek and gathered there for major ceremonies.
The Ramapough Lenape Nation and Powhatan Renape Nation had their state recognition reaffirmed March 18 by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
During the party’s reign, Nazi Germany committed massive art theft across Europe. While more than 70 years ago, the effects of those crimes are still felt today.
Our 6-year court battle to secure the civil rights of Native Americans successfully concluded this week when the Attorney General of New Jersey settled–acknowledging that the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation have been state recognized since 1982 and compensating the tribe $2.4 million for its losses.
In the millennia before Europeans arrived in North America, the town now called Bridgeton, New Jersey was a hub for the Lenni-Lenape people who inhabited an area stretching from Delaware to Connecticut.
The Museum of the Bible is opening today (17 November) in a vast former warehouse near the National Mall in the US capital. Atop the brick hulk is a long glass structure resembling a Torah scroll, while the text of Genesis 1:1-31—the creation story—in Latin is carved on 40ft-high bronze gates framing the entrance.
When Museum of the Bible opens its doors on November 17, just three blocks from the US Capitol building in Washington DC, guests will enter through two towering, 12-metre-tall gates, each weighing more than 12 tonnes.
Angling to auction off a 5,000-year-old Anatolian statue, Christie’s submitted evidence Monday that casts doubt on a bid by Turkey to repatriate the rare idol.
A day after craft chain Hobby Lobby agreed to pay a $3 million fine and return smuggled Iraqi artifacts, two professors called on the company to reveal the source of thousands of other antiquities in its massive Bible-themed collection.
Even without the bright orange demolition notice pasted onto its double doors, Christian Street Baptist Church wouldn’t be the most striking building in South Philadelphia.
By any measure, 12,000 years is a long time, but that’s how far back you can trace the lineage of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape peoples in what we’ve come to know as South Jersey and the Delaware Valley.