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Dunleavy administration may divert federal oil revenue from North Slope
Documents published by the Alaska Department of Revenue show a multibillion-dollar long-term change in the way money from federal oil leases is handled
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Wishes granted, hopes dashed in national defense bill
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Early retirements, other cuts slash Indian Health Service workforce
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Monday ceremony doubled as anniversary ceremony and as a celebration of new preservation law for site of 1890 atrocity
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Indigenous films to screen at Sundance Film Festival
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Canada 2025: The Year in Review
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A Wampanoag retelling of Thanksgiving
A Wampanoag citizen retells us the true story about the first meeting between the Wampanoag people and the pilgrims. Plus, more on the handful of Native people who ran for public office in Tuesday’s election
Keep reading400 years later, ‘we did not vanish’
‘We did not simply fade into the background as Thanksgiving myth says, we have survived and thrived, we have persevered’
Keep readingThanksgiving offers a way forward
In general, Indians are really big on gratitude. Ceremonies, feasts, activities great and small all begin with giving thanks to the Creator for letting us enjoy life on this earth.
Keep readingA Canadian looks at American Thanksgiving
It is surprising that we as Canadians are unaware of what should be a seminal moment in European-Indigenous relations.
Keep readingThe Wampanoag Side of the First Thanksgiving Story
The story of the first Thanksgiving is often told only from the Pilgrims perspective, but what about the Wampanoag view of the feast?
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