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.
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.
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.
Mayan Women's Softball Teams in the Yucatan are winning - without shoes and in traditional dress.
Indigenous leaders and activists have called out polluting nations for sacrificing indigenous communities in the interest of corporate profits, postponing meaningful climate action. COP26 creates a regulated carbon trading market, a move supported by the wealthiest polluting nations.