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New law requires California schools to teach about historical mistreatment of Native Americans

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring public schools to teach about the historical mistreatment of Native Americans during the Spanish colonization and gold rush periods

The Independent UK

A school banned Indigenous students from using their language. A century later, it’s teaching Cherokee

A precursor to Duke University once stripped students of their culture. Cherokee teachers are leading the change

The Guardian - US

Arizona tribe fights to stop lithium drilling on culturally significant lands

A Native American tribe is trying to persuade a U.S. judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project in Arizona

The Independent UK

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D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s red handprint at the 2024 Emmys has a deeper meaning

The red handprint is a powerful symbol for Native American communities

The Independent UK

Easter Island's population never collapsed, but it did have contact with Native Americans, DNA study suggests

A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the inhabitants commingled with Native Americans.

LiveScience

Man Guilty Of Trafficking Eagles Faces Significant Prison Sentence

Travis John Branson faces sentencing for illegal trafficking of eagles, impacting Native American cultural practices.

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MIT's first freshman class since the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ban is unmistakably less diverse

Around 17% of students in the class of 2028 are Black, Hispanic, Native American or Pacific Islander, a 15% dropoff from recent years.

Fortune

Judge blocks Arizona lithium drilling that tribe says is threat to sacred lands

A federal judge has temporarily blocked exploratory drilling for a lithium project in Arizona that Native American leaders say will harm land they’ve used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries

The Independent UK

GOPer downplays killings of Natives

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who claims indigenous descent, attacked the "ludicrous" idea of settler killings

Salon

Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them

The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later compelled Americans to confront the role played by memorials, monuments and other symbols in glorifying racist ideologies.

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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

The Independent UK

A win for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the country's first Native American female governor

If Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz officially steps down later this year to accept the position of U.S. vice president, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan would become the first Native woman to govern a state

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz could clear path for first-ever Native American woman governor

Minnesota’s Peggy Flanagan could be the nation’s first Indigenous woman in a governor’s office

The Independent UK

Trump’s comments saying Native Americans ‘don’t look like Indians’ resurface after remarks about Harris’ heritage

Trump claimed that many Native American casino owners ‘don’t look like Indians’ in a 1993 congressional hearing

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The Independent UK

Abuse investigation finds almost 1,000 Native American children died in US boarding schools

The schools gave Native American kids English names and forced them to perform manual labor

The Guardian - UK

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Independent UK

Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back

Native American artifacts have remained out of public view but still very much in the hands of some of the nation’s largest museums some six months after institutions closed and covered exhibits in response to new federal regulations

The Conversation

US citizenship was forced on Native Americans 100 years ago − its promise remains elusive

The 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act has garnered little fanfare. Only a handful of news articles and events have commemorated the centennial of the law giving U.S. citizenship to Native Americans.

The Independent UK

Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition

When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest

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Washington State Climate Law Funds Native American Climate Projects

Governor Inslee allocates million from the Climate Commitment Act to assist Native American tribes in climate change adaptation efforts, including relo...

The Independent UK

Money from Washington's landmark climate law will help tribes face rising seas, climate change

Tens of millions of dollars raised by a landmark climate law in Washington state will go to Native American tribes that are at risk from climate change and rising sea levels to help them move to higher ground, install solar panels, buy electric vehicles and restore wetlands

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