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One hundred and thirty-one winters ago, on December 29, 1890, some 150 Lakota men, women and children were massacred by the US 7th Cavalry Regiment near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Some estimate the actual number closer to 300.

The Cobell Scholarship application is now open to any degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate Native American student. The deadline for applicants is March 31st, 2022.

Amaranth has a highly nutritious seed fostered by native communities in the Americas for at least 8000 years. Since the 1970s the plant has been touted by natural health advocates as a near-magical healing plant, but the native history of its cultivation has been left out of that story.

In many ways, America's national Thanksgiving holiday has become a celebraion of cultural appropriation and the erasure of Native histories.