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Biden will announce creation of two new national monuments to protect tribal lands in California

January 07, 2025 4:14 pm

Biden, who has two weeks left in office, is set to visit Los Angeles and the Eastern Coachella Valley on Tuesday after meeting Monday with the families of the victims in the New Year's attack in New Orleans.

Columbus Day: Story of Christopher Columbus, why he is a controversial figure

October 15, 2024 10:34 am

Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492 sparked centuries of European conquest and colonisation in the continent.

The Navajo Code: How an ‘unbreakable’ Native American language helped the Allies win World War 2

August 14, 2024 5:40 pm

[Codebreaking Game Inside] In the Navajo language, fighter planes flew as “hummingbirds”, tortoises became tanks, and submarines swam as “iron fish” — and their most important job was to stay lost in translation.

Native American tribe wins US waiver to resume hunting Pacific gray whales

June 14, 2024 2:22 am

On Thursday, after decades of litigation, environmental reviews, criminal prosecutions of tribal hunters, public meetings and discussions with federal authorities and the International Whaling Commission, the US government granted the waiver.

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Shinnecock's first female leader in centuries returns a tribal nation to its roots

June 11, 2024 7:27 pm

Goree’s supporters are touting her election as a return to its matriarchal leadership roots and a departure from centuries of male leadership sometimes marked by internal division and antagonism with local, state and federal government officials.

The story of the Osage Indians' murders, subject of Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

October 26, 2023 11:04 am

The Osage killings led to the structuring of the FBI. More fundamentally, they revealed the rapacious loot of the land and resources of the continent's native peoples by white settlers.

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Grand Canyon park changes campground name that haunted tribe

November 23, 2022 3:02 pm

The area, about 4½ miles (7.2 kilometers) down the popular Bright Angel Trail on the South Rim, originally was called Ha'a Gyoh by the tribe. But by 1928, the park service had forcibly removed the last Havasupai resident from the inner canyon

President Joe Biden nominates 1st Native American US treasurer

June 21, 2022 7:04 pm

Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, who is the lifetime chief of the Mohegan Indian Tribe, previously worked as a registered nurse, according to the tribe's website, and has served in various tribal government roles.

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'They don't want us here': Native Americans struggle to vote in US election

September 28, 2020 12:30 pm

According to the National Congress of American Indians, the voter rate among Native Americans is five to 14 percentage points lower than that of other racial groups in the country, and the situation doesn't seem to be improving, say activists.

Indigenous tribes embraced gender fluidity prior to colonisation, but Europeans enforced specific gender roles

July 27, 2017 11:34 am

Ethnographic research reveals therefore, that prior to the European dominance, there were absolutely no monolithic gender systems in place. The construction of two specific gender identities as non-interchangeable absolutes, was in fact, the invention of the Euro-Western society.