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How journalists tell Buffy Sainte-Marie’s story matters — explained by a ’60s Scoop survivor

Lori Campbell, a ’60s Scoop survivor and a VP at the University of Regina, challenges the CBC’s motives in their exposé on the questionable Indigenous roots of Buffy Sainte-Marie, legendary singer-songwriter.

The Conversation

The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it's the largest increase in two decades

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year, which is the largest increase in two decades

The Independent UK

The Day of the Dead in Mexico is a celebration for the 5 senses

Mexicans are celebrating Day of the Dead, an intangible tradition borne down from pre-Hispanic cultures that is also a celebration for all the senses

The Independent UK

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Full list of US 2023 federal holiday dates

The list of US federal holidays is made up of 11 days of significance that Americans recognise and celebrate

The Independent UK

Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition

Raising sheep is a way of life for many people in Navajo Nation, but a host of factors threaten that livelihood

The Independent UK

Revelations about Buffy Sainte-Marie's ancestry is having a devastating impact on Indigenous communities across Canada

This isn’t a story about whether Buffy Sainte-Marie — musical icon, activist, community member and beloved Auntie — is biologically Indigenous. Rather, it’s more important to understand the deep impact a CBC report casting doubts on the singer’s ancestry is having across Indigenous lands — and how the fallout from…

The Conversation

Anchorage's oldest building, a Russian Orthodox church, gets new life in restoration project

A refurbishing effort will breathe new life into Anchorage’s oldest standing building, a simple Russian Orthodox log church dating from the era of Russia’s colonization of Alaska

The Independent UK

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Buffy Sainte-Marie denies allegations she misled public about Indigenous ancestry

Singer calls allegations ‘deeply hurtful’ after documentary questions ‘shifting narrative’ surrounding her Cree roots

The Guardian - US

‘It’s a very fragile system’: a tense fight for free press at an Indigenous paper

In the propulsive documentary Bad Press, a news outlet affiliated with the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma is threatened by tribal government control

The Guardian - US

NY natural history museum changing how it looks after thousands of human remains in collection

The American Museum of Natural History says it is pulling all human remains from public display and will revamp how it maintains its collection of body parts with the aim of eventually repatriating as much as it can and respectfully holding what it can’t

The Independent UK

Fossil fuel firms spent millions on US lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest bills

About 60% of oil and gas operations protected from protest due to money spent on lobbying, says Greenpeace USA report

The Guardian - US

Indigenous actor Devery Jacobs says Killers of the Flower Moon ‘further dehumanises our people’

‘Reservation Dogs’ star said the film was ‘unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic’

The Independent UK

First Nation experiences: a first-class way to support nature

A growing number of travel experiences are owned and run by Indigenous or First Nation people, making for nature-protecting, minimal-impact holidays. We tracked down the very best

Evening Standard

Indigenous voices can be heard without being constitutionally enshrined, just look at the US

It was always going to be a big ask for Australians to vote in favour of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

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‘Bigfoot’ has been spotted in a tiny town – and locals have some theories

Sheila Flynn heads to Silverton to go Sasquatch spotting, after a large hairy figure was captured there on viral footage last week

The Independent UK

I went to ‘Bigfoot’ spotting - locals promise latest sighting wasn’t one of them

Sheila Flynn heads to Silverton to go Sasquatch spotting, after a large hairy figure was captured there on viral footage last week

The Independent UK

Locals where ‘Bigfoot’ was spotted promise it wasn’t one of them

Sheila Flynn heads to Silverton to go Sasquatch spotting, after a large hairy figure was captured there on viral footage last week

The Independent UK

Brazil’s Lula vetoes core part of legislation threatening Indigenous rights

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core aspects of a bill passed by Congress that threatened to undo protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights

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Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon describes the struggles of the Osage people. Here’s why they are still fighting

Hundreds of Native Americans were murdered for their oil in the 1920s. But they’re still battling the US government for what is theirs, says journalist and film-maker Greg Palast

The Independent UK

Lacrosse at the Olympics gives Native Americans a chance to see their sport shine

Nearly 1,000 years after lacrosse was first played across the Haudenosaunee confederacy, the sport will be on the Olympic schedule in 2028

The Guardian - UK

Dark Winds review – this brooding Navajo murder mystery begs to be binged

A tribal police lieutenant teams up with the FBI in a knotty, atmospheric drama that’s largely populated by indigenous talent – including Reservation Dogs’s terrific Zahn McClarnon

Salon

Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil

The blazes comes on top of a drought that has left some river communities stranded

The Guardian - US

Ken Burns: ‘The only thing that changes people is storytelling’

The documentarian talks about his new series on the American Buffalo and how its destruction became a cautionary symbol of what was to come

Salon

Ken Burns and "The American Buffalo"

A four-hour series examining the fall and recuperation of the bison makes us ask: Why are Americans so destructive?

The Conversation

Gangsters are the villains in 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Based on David Grann’s meticulously researched 2017 book, the movie delves into racial and family dynamics that rocked Oklahoma to the…

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