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What’s pushing 2,000-plus athletes from over 50 countries to San Francisco for the 40th annual Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon (EFAT) on Aug. 15—one of the most unique and grueling swim-bike-run races on the pro triathlon tour?

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Osage Nation Representatives review collections during a NAGPRA consultation. Photo courtesy of The Osage Nation

Nearly $2 million has been disbursed by the National Park Service in the form of grants to nine Indian Tribes, one Native Hawaiian organization, and 22 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation and repatriation of ancestral remains and cultural items as part of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

“The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act grants help ensure the longevity of Native American cultural heritage and the National Park Service is committed to supporting the critical work of Tribal consultations, documentation and repatriation,” said Park Service Deputy Director Shawn Benge.

Eleven grants will fund the transportation and return of 11 cultural items, more than 4,000 funerary objects, and human remains comprising 82 ancestors.

One recipient, the Delaware Tribe of Indians of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, will repatriate the remains of individuals and burial objects removed from the Abbott Farm Historic District, a National Historic Landmark archaeological site in Mercer County, New Jersey. The Delaware Tribal Historic Preservation Officer was to travel to the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology in Andover, Massachusetts, to reunite the remains of 35 ancestors with over 600 funerary objects and prepare them for the journey to their final resting place. Additional representatives from the Delaware Tribe of Indians, Delaware Nation, Oklahoma, and Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin, will travel to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, to respectfully reinter the ancestors at a designated site on the banks of the Delaware River near the Abbot Farm site.

Twenty-two consultation and documentation grants will fund museum and tribal staff travel, consultation meetings and research, all in support of the repatriation process.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will conduct a collections review and host a consultation event to address NAGPRA-eligible cultural materials and ancestral remains recovered from Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Located near East St. Louis, Illinois, Cahokia Mounds is the largest pre-contact site in North…

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The Pawnee Nation has hosted a children’s summer camp as long as Mike Ortiz can remember. He decided last week to cancel the camp for the second straight year amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Pawnee County and across Oklahoma.

“We don’t want to be a hindrance health-wise,” said Ortiz, who noted the back-to-school camp is for children between the ages of 6 and 18, meaning half cannot yet receive COVID-19 vaccines.

Medical experts say the disease is spreading quickly across the U.S. because of a highly contagious variant that now accounts for most new cases. The rapid return of COVID-19 prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate its face mask recommendation for all people in crowded settings. 

Leaders of many Oklahoma tribes are reupping safety measures and redoubling vaccination efforts to stem the spread within Indigenous communities, which suffered outsized losses during earlier waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent steps include closing some tribal headquarters to the public and canceling annual events that organizers had hoped to bring back this year. 

“We are hearing from the experts and epidemiologists that the infection is spreading so rapidly that it’s more important now than ever that people are taking personal protection measures,” said Mark Rogers, executive director of the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System. The tribe has clinics in Shawnee and Norman, as well as a 24-hour coronavirus hotline that is answering more and more calls.

Rogers said COVID-19 cases are increasing among the health care system’s more than 22,000 patients. Most who have tested positive in recent weeks had not received a COVID-19 vaccine. Many are in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Some have been hospitalized. 

“It is a second pandemic of the unvaccinated,” said Rogers, who is Cherokee. 

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Curtis Zunigha remembers shedding tears when he heard the age of one Native American whose remains were part of a reburial ceremony in Ohio several years ago.

It was a girl, 11 when she died. Her young age, which reminded Zunigha of his granddaughter, along with the girl’s inclusion among the many Indigenous people throughout U.S. history who experienced indignities such as being moved from their homelands, left him shaken.

“I was emotionally distressed,” he said during a recent telephone interview.

Zunigha, cultural director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, said the experience illustrates the long-lasting effects of the country’s history and the ongoing importance of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, which was passed in 1990. The law mandates that institutions receiving federal funding return Native American remains and cultural items to tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations.

The Delaware Tribe of Indians expects the remains of nearly 200 ancestors to be reburied at the Pennsbury Manor near Philadelphia in the fall and thousands of belongings to be returned.

Nationally, there are almost 200,000 human remains of Native Americans that have been identified under the law, according to the National Parks Service. Remains have been uncovered in all 50 states and are now on display in museums, in university labs for anthropology research and tucked away in boxes in the back of closets across the country.

The Department of the Interior in July announced new proposed regulations for the protection and repatriation law to clarify the process as well as take the burden off tribes to initiate and complete the required steps. The federal government is consulting tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations about the new proposals and will open them for public comment in October.

The Delaware tribe has been working for…

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POUGHKEEPSIE – Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents a summer of art with exhibitions ranging from Robert Rauschenberg’s news-inspired screen prints and a related photo display, drawings by sculptor Harry Roseman, and a poignant commemoration of Juneteenth.

The Loeb Art Center also returns to regular public hours, every day (except Monday) from 11am to 5pm. As always, admission is free. For more information about accessing the Vassar campus, please refer to VassarTogether.

Summer exhibitions include:

Time Capsule, 1970: Rauschenberg’s Currents, an in-depth look at avant-garde artist Robert Rauschenberg’s famous 1970 series of politically charged screen prints, is on view from June 26 – September 19, 2021. In 1970 Rauschenberg superimposed stories, headlines, advertisements, and images clipped from newspapers and tabloids to produce Surface Series from Currents: eighteen large-scale screen prints that reflected the strident social and political change of the period. The series is both a technical feat of modernist printmaking and a chance to peer inside Rauschenberg’s time capsule and witness the cacophony of violence, warfare, and political backlash that defined world events of the time.

Organized by guest curator Calvin Brown, the exhibition also features two original collages on loan from the Rauschenberg Foundation as well as sixteen related works from the Loeb’s collection

Photo Currents: Media, Circulation, Spectacle, is on view upstairs in the Hoene Hoy Photography Gallery from July 10 – October 10, 2021. In light of the radical transformation of popular media with the rise of the internet, citizen journalism, and social media, this exhibition considers photography’s role as a mediator of collective experiences and memories of historical events.

Tilled Fields, a solo show by New York sculptor Harry Roseman, who taught at Vassar for 40 years, is featured in the Project and Focus galleries from July 3 – September 12, 2021. The exhibition engages viewers with eighteen striking…

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CATOOSA, Okla. — Native American art is taking center stage in Catoosa this weekend.

50 Native artists are showcasing their skills as part of the new Route 66 Native Arts Alliance. The group is bringing the community together to support Native artists during the pandemic.

“All joining arms to make this community really a special place for the artists,” said Betsy Swimmer, vice president of the Route 66 Native Arts Alliance. “And also, for Route 66, an authentic experience with Native artists.”

The events kicked off Thursday night with an art show and gala at the Bella Donna Event Center. Artists showed off their paintings, jewelry and even furniture. The furniture pieces featured are designed by Cray Bauxmont-Flynn, a member of Cherokee Nation and the Delaware Tribe who is the founder and creative director of Amatoya. He said his pieces are inspired by his Native roots.

“We keep on evolving from our heritage and our cultural essence into a new art form that takes you to the next level,” Bauxmont-Flynn said.

The weekend is also launching “Destination Catoosa.” It’s an effort to make the city a hub for Native art in the region.

You can hear Bartlesville Native and Cherokee Citizen singer-songwriter Becky Hobbs perform a song she wrote for the event, appropriately called “Destination Catoosa,” as a tribute to the city.

“It’s the redbud trees,” Hobbs said. “The birds sing. It’s the Verdigris River. The Blue Whale. I even got the Blue Whale in there. So I had lots of fun writing it.”

Friday’s events include a concert from Hobbs as well as a Native art show all at the Bella Donna.

The festivities continue in downtown Catoosa on Saturday with a street fair. Booths will line Cherokee Street and feature even more Native American artists. There will also be live music and food trucks.

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Lower.com CEO Dan Snyder talks about the stadium naming rights

Video: Lower.com CEO Dan Snyder says the Crew stadium naming rights came about from a sales call.

Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

Saturday evening brings the grand opening of the Crew’s new stadium. A sellout crowd and a national television audience will get its first look as the third and final jewel of the Arena District, which rates as one of the most beautiful sports complexes of its kind in the United States. 

Is that an overstatement? No, it is not.  

About a quarter mile, or 440 yards, separates the east plaza of the soccer stadium. Lower.com Field, from the west plaza of Nationwide Arena. In between is Huntington Park, home of the Triple-A Clippers. 

Nothing quite like it

There are cities with notable clusters of at least three sports facilities. Detroit has done a wonderful job reinventing itself this way; Pittsburgh’s venues are lovely, especially the football and baseball stadiums that stand beside the confluence of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers; Cleveland deserves mention in this conversation, as do Denver and Minneapolis, among others. 

Unlike these cities, Columbus does not have three major-league teams.  

More: Columbus Crew’s new stadium cements Arena District’s evolution into sports destination

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Finding themselves in a 4-0 hole after just two innings, the Delaware Tribe 13U softball squad mounted an impressive comeback win over the Delaware Express Glanden for an 8-5 USSSA championship-clinching performance on Sunday, June 27, at the Lower Sussex Little League Complex.

It was the second straight USSSA state title for this particular group, which won the 12U title last year. This one came in a higher division — against older teams — but, more importantly, came while the team was battling some adversity with key members of the team out due to injuries.

“It was fun, and we hit the ball well all weekend,” Tribe head coach Dennis Scurci said of his team’s effort. “We played a couple clean games with no errors, and we went long a couple times as well. Ryleigh Smith had her first two travel-ball home runs. She had a grand slam on Saturday, and then another one on Sunday.

“We had a tough game in the finals against the Delaware Express Glanden, found ourselves behind, and then came back to win it in the end. It was a great weekend. We were in the toughest bracket. The Delaware Vipers are probably the No. 1 team in the state, and the Express Glanden are probably No. 2 in the state, and we beat both of them so all in all a great weekend.”

A great weekend, indeed.

The Tribe went 5-0 for the weekend, having won three games on Saturday and two more on Sunday. They scored 41 runs over those five games, while allowing just 11.

In the championship finale, the Tribe got multiple-hit efforts from five different batters, with Sophie Scurci, Ava Snelsire, Ava Calciano, Ashlynn Ullman and Katelyn Murray all collecting two hits. Scurci and Snelsire each scored twice. Ashlynn Ullman smashed a three-run bomb for…

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