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US
U.S. Catholic Bishops Apologize for Traumas of Indian Boarding Schools
The bishops acknowledged the church’s role in operating schools where Native American children faced abuses and forced assimilation.
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World
The Unapologetic ‘Auntie’ of Indigenous Data
“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. By Susan Shain Data has long been in the background of Abigail Echo-Hawk’s life. Growing up in rural Alaska, she remembers hearing stories about Indigenous ...
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Newyork
American English Needs Immigrants
The immigration debate often centers on who should be welcomed into our country. Some even argue that multiculturalism dilutes our national character — that the very the essence of the country is somehow vanishing. But far from undermining the ...
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Newyork
The Unexpected Gift of Dead Plants
NASHVILLE — The winter storm that swept in just before Christmas, moving from the West Coast to the East, was a slow-motion devastation. For a week, it was all meteorologists could talk about — temperatures dropping tens of degrees in a matter of ...
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News
Biden Promises Protections for Nevada’s Spirit Mountain
But the president stopped short of designating the ecologically and cultural important region, also known as Avi Kwa Ame, as a national monument.
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Newyork
A Native American Vision of Justice From 1722 Offers a Model for Today
Three hundred years ago, leaders of three British colonies and representatives of the Indigenous nations known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy gathered in Albany, N.Y., to sign what is the oldest continuously recognized treaty in colonial American ...