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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
In many ways, America's national Thanksgiving holiday has become a celebraion of cultural appropriation and the erasure of Native histories.
Monday, November 29, 2021
The Chumash are an ocean-going band of California natives who live in one of the most culturally and biologically diverse regions of coastal North America. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is moving forward with the process of designating the area as a marine sanctuary.
Thursday, November 25, 2021
The legend of the Alamo claims the site as central to Texas independence, but the actual history challenges Texas mythology. Slave-owning Americans and racist volunteers immigrated illegally into Mexican Texas in the years before Texas Independence in 1836.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
The legend of Thanksgiving references a harvest feast in 1621. While that story is part of white America's founding mythology, the real story can only be known through exploring indigenous perspectives of history.
Monday, November 22, 2021
US District Judge Miranda Du refused a bid by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and the Oregon-based Burns Paiute Tribe to halt progress toward constructing a lithium mine at Thacker Pass, about 230 miles northeast of Reno.
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