Native Americans

State

The Poarch Creeks you don’t know

The Poarch Creeks have quietly built an impressive non-gaming business portfolio and turned gambling revenue into a health, education and wellness boon for the entire tribe.

January 8, 2025

Archives and History has big plans for threatened $5M appropriation

The $5 million appropriation is more than a third of the funding the Legislature decided to send the department just last month.

July 10, 2023

Hasn’t this state done enough to the Native people?

Can’t they be given back the stolen remains of their people? So they can be laid to rest in peace?

January 27, 2023

Critical Race Theory teaches understanding, compassion, conservatives fighting it

"The 40-year-old theory examines the ways racism has affected our various systems, leading to diminished opportunities and injustices."

June 15, 2021

Trump administration finalizes return of Native American ancestral remains from Finland

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday that the Trump administration has successfully negotiated the return of Native American remains and funerary objects that have been on display in a museum in Finland for generations. Last year, President Donald Trump and President Niinistӧ of Finland finalized an agreement to return American Indian ancestral remains … Continued

September 18, 2020

Today is Thanksgiving

Today is a state and national holiday thanking God for the many blessings that He has bestowed on us and our country. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the surviving Pilgrims and their Wampanoag Indian friends celebrating the Pilgrims’ first harvest after a brutal winter. The successful first harvest with the aid of the compassionate … Continued

November 28, 2019

England elected first Black Chairman in Alabama Democratic Party history

State Rep. Christopher England, D-Tuscaloosa, is the new chair of the Alabama Democratic Party. The reform faction of the State Democratic Executive Committee met at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery to elect the new Alabama Democratic Party chair and vice chair Saturday. England defeated former congressional candidate Tabitha Isner and former candidate for lieutenant governor … Continued

November 4, 2019

Sunday is the 400th Anniversary of first slave ship’s arrival in colonial America

Sunday, August 25, 2019, will mark the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship in the English colonies that today are the United States of America. To commemorate this moment in history, on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. CST, the bell at the Alabama State Capitol will ring in solidarity with others across the country in … Continued

August 23, 2019

The Poarch Creek Indians were noticeably absent in the 2018 election cycle. There’s a good reason why.

Throughout the 2018 election cycle, as major donors and top political action committees dumped needed cash into the campaign accounts of their chosen politicians, there was one major player in the state that remained remarkably quiet. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians. While PCI dumped buckets of cash into various PACs, it did so mostly … Continued

November 29, 2018

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving

Thursday marks the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a national holiday, first declared by President George Washington in 1789 after it was requested by the U.S. Congress. President Thomas Jefferson made the decision not to celebrate the holiday and the holiday went in and out of fashion depending on the whims of each President until Abraham … Continued

November 21, 2018