Aunt Lucy's cabin brings black history to life in KC
Horace Peterson and the Black Archives of Mid America restored Aunt Lucy Willis’s one room cabin and placed it in a Kansas City museum. The exhibit connects visitors with slavery history through artifacts, photographs, and a search for descendants led by Irma Woodson Smith, Goldie Woodson, and local archivists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy
Kansas City, Mo
Horace Peterson
The
Black Archives of Mid
Peterson
Evelyn Sheets
Martin Luther King Jr
Frederick Douglass
Kansas City
Aunt Lucy
Trenton
Sheets
Irma Woodson Smith
Amelia
Marvin Scott
Scott
William Neil Peery
Missouri
Peery
Peerys
Grundy County
Rosa
Jerry Louis Clayton
Nellie Golda
Goldie
Carter Woodson
Mrs. Smith
Louisiana
Los Angeles
Momma
Daddy
Lucy Willis
Black Archives of Mid-America
Troubles continue with Navajo Hopi relocation effort
A year after the relocation deadline the Navajo Hopi land dispute persists. The $200 million eviction program falters as 1500 Navajo families await benefits and 300 occupy disputed land. A model home sits unfinished with no water or road link amid harsh desert conditions and criticism from Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claudine Arthur
Hopi Navajo Relocation Sparks Clash Over Tribal Authority
The piece outlines long running disputes between Hopi religious leaders and the tribal council set up by the Interior Department in the 1990s, plus relocation efforts for Hopis and Navajos split by land and water issues. It notes Chair Ivan Sidney’s re election, BIA involvement, road and water delays, and funding gaps threatening hundreds of remaining relocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flagstaff
Ariz
Interior Department
Ivan Sidney
Navajo Teer Bt
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Pup
Marilyn Harris
Mishongnovi
Nona Tuchawena
Utah
John Boyden
Coal dispute fuels Navajo Hopi land relocation fight
The long running Navajo Hopi land dispute centers on coal beneath Horse Spring Butte. Ida Clinton and others contend mining interests drive relocation, while government and company officials deny conspiracy. Joint mineral rights remain after relocation, with Navajos and Hopis navigating leases for Black Mesa coal and its export via slurry pipeline to western power plants.
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Teestoh
Ariz
Ida Clinton
Clintons
Butte
Congress
Peabody
Fred Craft
Harrison Loesch
House Interior Committee
Peabody Coal
Craft and Loesch
Washington
Navajo and
Hopi Indian Relocation Commission
Craft
Sam Steiger
Arizona
House
West Virginia
Ray Smith
Bureau of Indian Affairs Natural
Boyden
Greg Leisse
Black Mesa
Phoenix
Tucson
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
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By Donna Bryson
Associated Press
Irma Smith
Kentucky
Willis
By Scott McCartney
Mission
Winslow
Annie Y. Begay
U.S
Sidney R. Yates
D-Ill
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Commission
Yates
Bureau
Alfred Yazzie
BIA
Smith
Relocation Commission
David Shaw-Serdar
Shaw- Serdar
Feds
Steiger
Evan Mecham
Ms. Arthur
Peabody Coal Co
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!