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Article: NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES GAINING GROUND AT UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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WATERBURY, Conn., Aug. 31 -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news release:
With more than 500 different Native American tribes living today in the United States, faculty and administrators at UConn have been working in recent years to raise the profile of Native American Studies as an academic discipline and provide students greater opportunity to explore their interests in this area.
Connecticut is home to five tribal nations: Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Schaghticoke, Eastern Pequot, and Paugusset. Hundreds of other indigenous peoples reside throughout the Americas.
Despite this vast, enduring diversity in Native culture, "many people think of Native American Studies ...