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Students arrive at Algodones Elementary School on Oct. 1, 2024, in Algodones, New Mexico. School officials are working to reduce chronic absenteeism among Native students. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)
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School outreach helps reduce chronic absenteeism among Native students

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Yalchin Rafiyev, Azerbaijan's COP29 lead negotiator, left, Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President, center, and Simon Stiell, United Nations climate chief, talk ahead of a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Climate funding deal for third-world countries divisive

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens as North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks at a caucus night rally in Las Vegas, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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Trump to Interior nominee Doug Burgum: 'Drill'

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This image provided by Lillian Crook shows Bullion Butte in western North Dakota. (Lillian Crook via AP)
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Coalition seeks to preserve North Dakota's Badlands

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Joan Heckenberg and St. Louis Alderman Cara Spencer stand in front of Heckenberg's home, which sits atop the last remaining Native American mound in St. Louis, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)
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Plan to return St. Louis mound to Osage Nation progresses

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A formerly sunken boat sits on cracked earth hundreds of feet from the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on May 10, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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Feds outline steps for Colorado River agreement by 2026

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In this image taken from an underwater video provided by Swiftwater Films, a salmon swims in a Klamath River tributary in October 2024. (Swiftwater Films visa AP)
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Following dams' removal, salmon return, lay eggs

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The snow-covered coastal plain area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is seen Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, near Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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After election, divides deepen over Arctic refuge drilling

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Local organizer Maria Calamity instructs a resident on how to properly fill out a pledge card promising to vote in the upcoming presidential election on the Navajo Nation in Ganado, Ariz., Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Study: Native voting still faces many barriers

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Abuse survivor, Tu Chapman, speaks following New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's "formal and unreserved" apology in Parliament for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in care, in Wellington, New Zealand Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Monique Ford/Stuff via AP)
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'A hollow and limited apology': New Zealand survivors of abuse speak out

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ONE TIME USE ONLY/DO NOT USE THIS AGAIN This April 16, 2024, photo provided by Philip LaPorta shows Scott Ashcraft, an archaeologist and heritage resources program manager for the Pisgah National Forest, examining a quartz vein at a prehistoric quarry site near Asheville, North Carolina. (Photo by Philip LaPorta via AP)
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Whistleblower sounds alarm about destruction of tribal sites in North Carolina

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Several people gathered in Ashland, Wisconsin, on June 4, 2024, to oppose the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' draft environmental impact statement regarding Enbridge's Line 5 reroute project. (Photo courtesy of Devon Cupery)
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Wisconsin agency issues initial permits for Enbridge Line 5 reroute around reservation

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Members of Brazil's Indigenous delegation arrive to the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Indigenous groups given voice on conservation issues

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Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., listens during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, May 2, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
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Incumbent Democratic representatives re-elected in New Mexico

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Vehicles make their way south on U.S. 84/285 near Pojoaque, New Mexico, on Thursday morning, Nov. 7, 2024, as a winter storm moved through New Mexico and Colorado. (Matt Dahlseid/The New Mexican via AP)
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New Mexico governor declares emergency as winter storm brings blizzard conditions

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Alice Aishanna steps into her living room while a CBS News broadcast shows Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, at her home in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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Remote Alaska villages face many election hurdles

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The Yavapai-Apache Nation reached an agreement with U.S. forest managers for a land exchange that sill increase the tribe's reservation in Arizona's Verde Valley, shown hear on Sept. 30, 2016, near the town of Jerome, Arizona. (AP Photo/Yvonne Gonzalez/FILE)
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Forest managers finalize land exchange with Yavapai-Apache Nation

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A grand jury in Nevada has again indicted 'Dances with Wolves' actor Nathan Chasing Horse on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls for decades. The indictment was unsealed Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. He is shown here sitting in a Las Vegas courtroom on April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil, File)
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'Dances with Wolves' actor is again indicted on sexual abuse charges

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Children in El Jobo village play in the Indio River, which could have its flow reduced under a proposed plan to secure the Panama Canal’s uninterrupted operation in Panama, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Planned Panama Canal dam draws mixed reactions

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A dump truck carrying coal navigates its way near a coal mining pit in Sanga-Sanga, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Dec. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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Report: 3.5 millions acres of trees lost to mining over 20 years

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Dancers perform during celebration of "Indigenous Peoples' Day Picnic In The Park 2024" and Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary at Dinosaur Caves Park, Pismo Beach on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Robert Schwemmer via AP)
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Chumash to co-steward marine sanctuary in historic partnership

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King Charles III, center, participates in a traditional smoking ceremony conducted by community representatives from the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation during a visit to the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence on Tuesday Oct. 22, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. (Lisa Maree Williams/Pool Photo via AP)
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King Charles ends first Australian visit by a reigning British monarch in 13 years

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An Indigenous Brazilian delegate attends the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Environmental delegates gather for a conference on dwindling global biodiversity

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People carry the coffin of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez prior to a mass at the main plaza in San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)
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Hundreds mourn priest and Indigenous peace activist

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FILE - The East Fork of the Jemez River cuts through Valles Caldera National Preserve, N.M, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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Settlement enshrines tribe's rights to use national preserve for cultural practices

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Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe, left, disrupts proceedings as Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla attend a Parliamentary reception hosted by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Jaydon at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (Lukas Coch/Pool Photo via AP)
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'You are not my king,' Indigenous senator yells at King Charles

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FILE - Navajo Code Talker John Kinsel Sr., of Lukachukai, Ariz., listens as his comrades speak of their WWII experiences Tuesday Aug. 14, 2007, in Window Rock, Ariz. (AP Photo/Donovan Quintero, File)
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One of the last Navajo Code Talkers dies

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Bilore Marie washes the dishes outside her house in Nazareth village in Southern Cameroon, Wednesday Aug. 21, 2024. Indigenous people have lived in harmony with the forests of central Africa for hundreds of years. But the government of Cameroon is trying to integrate them into mainstream society as mining and logging activities rapidly encroach. (AP Photos/Angel Ngwe)
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Lack of birth certificates puts Indigenous people on the brink of statelessness

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Tatum Starr, facing camera, is embraced by Sage Tellez-Ortiz, left and Wojapi Twobulls at the California State Capitol during the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Villegas)
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The brutal story behind California’s new Native American genocide education law

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This aerial photo shows the Wind Creek Casino in Wetumpka, Ala., with sacred Muscogee (Creek) burial grounds in the center surrounded by trees. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Alabama owns the casino. (Photo courtesy of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians)
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Court rules tribe's lawsuit over casino can proceed

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A dancer performs on Indigenous Peoples Day Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Minh Connors)
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Indigenous Peoples Day events focus on election

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Max Watts, of Buford, Ga., walks in the parking lot to check on a trailer parked outside the hotel where he is riding out Hurricane Milton with coworkers, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. Watts, who works for a towing company, was deployed with colleagues to Florida to aid in the aftermath of the storm. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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More than 1.5 million without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida

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A Lee County Sheriff's officer patrols the streets of Cape Coral, Florida, as heavy rain falls ahead of Hurricane Milton, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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Dire warnings to flee as Hurricane Milton begins to lash Florida

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Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe talks about the tribe's involvement in Civilization 7 at the ribbon-cutting of the Shawnee Language Center on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in Miami, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
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Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of tribe to the game

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Research assistants measure the height of seedlings in an experiment Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Bellvue, Colo., at the 2020 Cameron Peak fire burn area. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)
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The challenges to forest recovery and replanting after wildfires

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Camille Stevens-Rumann holds a grid used to organize seedlings at a reforestation test plot Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Bellvue, Colo., at the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire burn area. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)
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As forests fail to recover from wildfires, replanting efforts face huge odds

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Idaho state Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, waits for the State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building in this file photo taken on Jan. 9, 2017 in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger, File)
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Idaho state senator tells Native candidate 'go back where you came from'

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A sign informs drivers of the Onondaga Nation Territory's boundaries in central New York in this file photo taken Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Lauren Petracca)
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Ancestral land returned to Onondaga Nation in upstate New York

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Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester demanded that Republican challenger Tim Sheehy apologize for comments he made about "drunk" Indians in a debate on Sept. 30, 2024, at the Montana PBS studio in Missoula. The two are battling in the Nov. 5, 2024, election that could determine control of the Senate. (Screenshot courtesy of Montana PBS)
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Montana Senate candidate admits comments about 'drunk' Indians were 'insensitive'

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An abandoned farm is shown on the Fort Peck Reservation, March 19, 2007, near Poplar, Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Native Americans in Montana ask court for voting sites

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This aerial photo shows a subdivision at the site of a proposed resort and casino development, Sept. 17, 2021, near Windsor, Calif. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat via AP)
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A tiny tribe is getting pushback for betting big in California's wine country

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California Assembly member James C. Ramos, D-Highland, center, who authored the assembly bill which will require California public schools to teach the impact of the Mission Period and Gold Rush on California Native Americans, dances with some of the 300 fourth-grade students and teachers from Inland Empire schools in a pre-celebration of the anticipated passage of the bill at the California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference (CICAC) at the California State University campus in San Bernardino, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Law requires schools to teach about historical mistreatment of Native Americans

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Brush fire in Gila River Indian Community, Sept. 29, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Gila River Indian Community)
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Fire prompts evacuations in Gila River Indian Community

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Nathan Chasing Horse seated in a court room, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in North Las Vegas, Nev. Nathan Chasing Horse appeared in court for the second time after his arrest on charges of sexual assault and human trafficking. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)
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Court orders dismissal of Nathan Chasing Horse sex abuse case

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A woman holds up a sign as she marches to bring awareness for murdered and missing Indigenous women on Thursday, May 5, 2022. The march made a loop around Wesley Bolin Memorial Park, across from the Arizona State Capitol. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez, Arizona Mirror)
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Boyfriend of Native woman is sentenced to life in prison in her killing

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Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, left, plays bridge with Bill Gates, following the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting on May 5, 2019 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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Billionaire's children poised to become philanthropic powerhouses

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Zoe Perry, left, and Loveena Watahomiegie, right, as they join other members of the Hualapai Tribe while marching in front of U.S. District Court as they gathered to try to persuade a federal judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near tribal lands Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Judge to decide on mining near sacred lands

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The children of Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, from left, Howard Buffett, Susie Buffett, and Peter Buffett, pose for a photo at the CenturyLink Center exhibit hall in Omaha, Neb., May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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Giving away a fortune: A look at Warren Buffett's children

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This photo provided by Jason S. Ordaz shows a commencement ceremony at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., in May 2019. (Jason S. Ordaz/Institute of American Indian Arts via AP)
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Millions in funds boost Native American nonprofits

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Ashaninka indigenous youth Tayriykari inspects acai trees for reforestation in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Takeaways from tribal reforestation story

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