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2023 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

MIT Solve is thrilled to announce that the Indigenous Communities Fellowship is open now through Tuesday, May 9th.  

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The Largest Holder of Native American Human Remains is Preparing to Return Thousands of Indigenous Ancestors

The single-largest holder of Native American human remains—a federally-owned power company in Tennessee—is taking steps to complete the decades-long repatriation of more than 14,000 Native American ancestors who were unearthed in dam construction projects across the Tennessee valley from the…

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The Vanishing Scholar: Indigenous Erasure in Funding Data

Throughout its history, the United States has pursued two main objectives through its Federal Indian law and policy: the assimilation of the country’s First Peoples and the dispossession o

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Archaeology and genomics together with Indigenous knowledge revise the human-horse story in the American West

Few places in the world are more closely linked with horses in the popular imagination than the Great Plains of North America.

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Vatican rejects ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ following indigenous demands

The Vatican Thursday announced a formal rejection of a 15th century theory known as the ‘Doctrine of Discovery.’ In a statement, the Church said it “repudiate

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