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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.

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.

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.