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• TEGNA Foundation, the charitable foundation sponsored by TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA), in partnership with its local stations, today announced it awarded 242 Community Grants to address critical community needs and initiatives.
• WKYC in Cleveland, the “Education Station,” focused their Community Grants on pressing education needs in their local community.
• TEGNA Foundation Community Grants are vetted by a committee of employees at each station, including the station general manager, and approved by the TEGNA Foundation Board of Directors.
• To learn more and/or apply for a TEGNA Foundation Community Grants, visit https://www.tegnafoundation.org/ .

• LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurship announces today donations to DSST Public Schools (previously known as Denver School of Science and Technology) and Arc Institute as a part of the Foundation's 2023 CEO Prize.
• Additionally, a new award was introduced this year with Patrick and John Collison, Cofounders of Stripe, Inc, receiving the inaugural Next Generation CEO Prize.
• This year, DSST Public Schools, designated by Dr. John Malone, will receive the $250,000 gift and Arc Institute, designated by Patrick and John Collison, will receive the $100,000 gift.
• "The CEO Prize is an important component of the Singleton Foundation," said Shelley Miles, CEO of the Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurship.

• Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites on Sept. 19, 2023.
• The mounds are marvels of Indigenous science and astronomy, which helped Native Americans organize everything from cycles of planting and hunting to their ritual calendar.
• As a historian and ethnographer of the Native American Midwest, I have documented Native peoples’ commitment to their original homelands.
• The long journey toward this recognition tells a larger story about imperiled Native American sacred sites in the eastern half of the United States and the challenges faced by those who wish to protect them.

American settlers and Native peoples

• The policy resulted in the wholesale replacement of Native Americans with settlers in nearly every corner of the eastern half of the United States.
• Three of the Native nations that have helped win the World Heritage designation for the mounds – the Shawnee, Potawatomi and Miami Nation – were subject to removal.
• And in 1846, American settlers forced the Miami Nation out of their homes along the Wabash River, in Indiana.
• The forced expulsion of Native nations from their homelands made it difficult for them to protect their sacred heritage.

Post-removal abuse and neglect

• Over the years, Newark became a military barracks, a fairground, and for the past century it has been leased to the Moundbuilders Country Club.
• At the time, most Americans believed that the Bible was the literal word of God and that white Americans were a superior race.
• Squier argued that the Toltecs built the mounds and then migrated to Mesoamerica, where they built the great monuments of Mexico and Guatemala.
• Unfortunately, some Americans continue to promote false theories about the mounds, casting doubt on the genius of Indigenous science.

Collaboration and hope for the future

• Since 2020, the Ohio History Connection, which took over management of Serpent Mound, has been doing community-engaged archaeology.
• As part of this engagement, staff archaeologists work with the cultural preservation officers of affiliated Native nations to interpret the site.
• Similarly, the staff of the Ohio History Connection and the Newark Earthworks Center regularly consult with tribal leaders regarding the Newark Earthworks.
• The golf club has a century-long lease with the state of Ohio, which the state attempted to terminate through eminent domain.

• Solving the health disparities faced by people with disabilities starts with their involvement in policy making and healthcare decisions, according to a new report from the COVID-19 Health Disparities Task Force facilitated by The Arc of Pennsylvania.
• The report notes that the health decisions for people with disabilities are made without their insight and involvement, despite the community being among the country's largest groups experiencing health disparities.
• Without their insights, health disparities will continue to plague the disability community."
• The Task Force's latest report, " Recommendations for Addressing COVID-19 Health Disparities Among the Disability Community ," concludes a multi-year effort funded with a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health through the CDC's National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities Among Populations at High-Risk and Underserved.