Schaghticoke Tribal Nation Continues Land Rights Struggle

Gale Courey Toensing
December 31, 2012
The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation has asked the 2 nd Circuit Court of Appeals to review a lower court decision to dismiss the nation’s land rights lawsuit in Kent, Connecticut...

Schaghticoke Meeting House Torched by Arson

Gale Courey Toensing
November 26, 2011
KENT, Conn. – The only building on the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation ’s reservation where tribal members could gather has been destroyed by fire...

Schaghticoke Elder Catherine Velky, 87, Dies

Gale Courey Toensing
August 30, 2011
The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation has lost its beloved matriarch. Catherine E...

A Bright Spot on the Falls Village, Connecticut Ballot

Gale Courey Toensing
November 06, 2012
Voting was as brisk as the early morning 28 degree Fahrenheit weather in Falls Village, Connecticut, the second smallest town in the state...

Russell Means: Standing Against Injustice

Gale Courey Toensing
October 26, 2012
At the height of the American Indian Movement in the mid-1970s, Russell Means traveled to Connecticut to support the late Golden Hill Paugussett Chief Aurelius Piper Sr...

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