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Las Vegas police work near the home of former actor Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, who goes by Nathan Chasing Horse, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in North Las Vegas, Nev. Authorities raided the home of the former actor Tuesday in connection with a sexual assault investigation. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Nathan Chasing Horse arrested in sex abuse case

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Alyssa Chubbuck, left, and Dan Bennett embrace while watching the sunset at Guano Point overlooking the Colorado River on the Hualapai reservation Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in northwestern Arizona. In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico. During the past two decades, pressure has intensified on the river as the driest 22-year stretch in the past 1,200 years has gripped the southwestern U.S. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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A lone holdout in Colorado River cuts proposal

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FILE - New York Islanders coach Ted Nolan talks with his players during a timeout late in the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007. Nolan finally has his rookie card more than 40 years since making his NHL debut. Better late than never, particularly because it includes a nod to his First Nations heritage. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Hockey cards shed light on First Nations players

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A Yanomami woman carries a toddler on the property of the Saude Indigenous House, a center responsible for supporting and assisting Indigenous people in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. The government declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon, who are suffering from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)
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Why Yanomami are being decimated by disease, mining

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits the Grand Junction Air Center Complex on Friday to discuss her agency's response to wildfires and the Bureau of Land Management headquarters move to Grand Junction on Friday, July 23, 2021, in Grand Junction, Colo. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)
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US moves to protect Minnesota wilderness from mine

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Buffalos graze in the Ngorongoro Crater, west of Arusha, northern Tanzania, on Jan. 19, 2015. According to Tanzanian officials, the crater was formed as a result of a volcanic eruption and collapse three millions years ago and is now one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
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Tanzania squeezes Indigenous herders by seizing livestock, report says

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A man carries a placard at an Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Australia is marking the anniversary of British colonists settling modern day Sydney in 1788 while Indigenous protesters deride Australia Day as Invasion Day. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Australia Day focuses on Indigenous recognition in constitution

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Honor Beauvais, 12- year-old, visits Huntington Beach in Southern California, in August 2022. Honor loved his annual vacation to the California beaches. Beauvais died last month as a snow battered the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota after an ambulance couldn’t get to him in time. He was asthmatic and had influenza. (Cordier Beauvais via AP)
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Storm deaths on Lakota land 'could have been prevented'

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Albert "Ian" Schweitzer, left, hugs his mother, Linda, moments after a judge ordered him released from prison, in Hilo, Hawai'i, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. The judge's ruling came immediately after Schweitzer's attorneys presented new evidence and argued that Schweitzer, Native Hawaiian, didn’t commit the crimes he was convicted of and spent more than 20 years locked up for: the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawai'i. (Marco Garcia/The Innocence Project via AP Images)
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Native Hawaiian released from prison after new DNA test

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Brazil's newly-named Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara attends a meeting where Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced the ministers for his incoming government, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Dec. 29, 2022. Lula was sworn-in on Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
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Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

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Doreen Hall Vann wathes her son Zaiden during tryouts for a club baseball team Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, in Las Vegas. In 2019 Vann moved from Hawaii to Las Vegas to be closer to her daughter in Seattle. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Native Hawaiians leave homelands for affordable living

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Oklahoma court says Kickapoo Reservation was disestablished

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In this photo provided by Yoko Liriano, Bryant de Venecia poses for a photo with his paddleboard in Honolulu, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. He started stand-up paddle-boarding when there were fewer tourists coming to Hawaii during the pandemic. He's among the Hawaii residents feeling ambivalence toward tourists returning now that the state is allowing incoming travelers to bypass a 14-day quarantine with a negative COVID-19 test. (Yoko Liriano via AP)
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Surf contest named after legendary Native Hawaiian waterman returns

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Keauhou sunset, Kona coast, Big Island, Hawai'i, Dec. 16, 2019 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus)
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US military returns land on Molokai Island

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FILE - In this June 15, 2014, file photo released by the U.S. Geological Survey, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers who said they received the report of the attack on Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023, in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula. (Brian Battaile/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)
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Mother, son killed in polar bear attack in Alaska Native village

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People take part in an Alaska Native dance Jan. 20, 2020, in Toksook Bay, Alaska, a mostly Yup'ik village on the edge of the Bering Sea. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provided financial aid applications in both Yup'ik and Inupiaq for Alaska Native speakers following a typhoon, but the translated materials were so bungled they did not make sense. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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Group fired for nonsensical Alaska Native translations

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department's press conference on its federal boarding school investigation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)
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US renames places that used racist Native woman slur

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FILE - Demonstrators block a road at the base of Hawaii's tallest mountain, in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, on July 15, 2019, to protest the construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred. Hawaii's new attorney general said Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, that several dozen elders won't be subject to another round of prosecution for blocking a road three years ago to prevent the construction of the new telescope. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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Hawai'i stops prosecuting elders who protested telescope

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A view of San Francisco, California, Nov. 27, 2021. (Photo by Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today)
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California trying to find, compensate sterilization victims

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Dozens of tribe members and other protesters beating drums and waving signs rally in front of the federal courthouse in Reno, Nev. Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, as a court hearing began over a lawsuit seeking to block a huge lithium mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line about 200 miles north of Reno. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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Native people rally outside federal courthouse against lithium mine

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Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court during Haaland v. Brackeen oral arguments in Washington, D.C., on November 9, 2022. (Photo by ICT)
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At the Supreme Court, it's taking longer to hear cases

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A group of men pass in front of a sign for the Cordillera Azul National Park in the Peru Amazon, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, restricted hunting and sold forest carbon credits to oil companies. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits

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The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. (Courtesy photo)
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Seminole Tribe now running Mirage on Las Vegas Strip

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This image taken from video provided by Fort Huachuca shows a wild jaguar on Dec. 1, 2016, in southern Arizona. An environmental group on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to help reintroduce the jaguar to the Southwest, where it once roamed for hundreds of thousands of years before being whittled down to just one of the big cats known to survive in the region. (Fort Huachuca via AP, File)
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Environmentalists want jaguars reintroduced to Southwest

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The Animas River flows in Farmington, N.M., on July 22, 2020. The river is a tributary of the San Juan River, part of the Colorado River System. (Anthony Jackson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
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More questions than answers at Colorado River meetings

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The sun rises behind a line of moai statues on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Each monolithic human figure carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island's Rapanui people represents an ancestor. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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Rapa Nui rebounds from wildfire that singed its statues

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Makanalani Gomes, of AF3IRM, a feminist and decolonization organization, holds a fist in the air as she discusses a report on missing and murdered Native Hawaiian women, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022 in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Native Hawaiians hit by missing and murdered scourge

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In this Sept. 12, 2019 photo, a statue of Christopher Columbus sits in front of City Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther announced on Thursday, June 18, 2020 that the statue at will be removed as soon as possible and placed in storage. (Doral Chenoweth III/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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City ordered to remove box covering Christopher Columbus statue

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Alyssa Chubbuck, left, and Dan Bennett embrace while watching the sunset at Guano Point overlooking the Colorado River on the Hualapai reservation Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in northwestern Arizona. In November 1922, seven land-owning white men brokered a deal to allocate water from the Colorado River, which winds through the West and ends in Mexico. During the past two decades, pressure has intensified on the river as the driest 22-year stretch in the past 1,200 years has gripped the southwestern U.S. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns

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In this photo provided by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, a lake trout swims off Isle Royale, Mich., in Lake Superior, Sept. 12, 2018. Four tribes have agreed with Michigan and federal officials on a revised fishing policy for parts of three of the Great Lakes, officials said Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (Andrew Muiri/Great Lakes Fishery Commission via AP, File)
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Tribes reach new Great Lakes fishing deal

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits the Grand Junction Air Center Complex on Friday to discuss her agency's response to wildfires and the Bureau of Land Management headquarters move to Grand Junction on Friday, July 23, 2021, in Grand Junction, Colo. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)
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Tribal, federal leaders cheer Klamath River dam removals

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Abigail Kawananakoa, right, and her wife Veronica Gail Worth, appear in state court in Honolulu on Sept. 10, 2018. Kawananakoa, the last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. She was 96. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Last Hawaiian princess dies at 96

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A parent takes a selfie with a child and Santa and Mrs. Claus in Nuiqsut, Alaska, on Nov. 29, 2022. Operation Santa Claus, the Alaska National Guard's outreach program, attempts to bring Santa and Mrs. Claus and gifts to children in two or three Alaska Native villages each year, including Nuiqsut in 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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Santa visit brings joy to a frosty Alaska Inupiat village

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Former Chicago Blackhawks player Fred Sasakamoose is honored at the Edmonton Oilers-Chicago Blackhawks NHL hockey game Dec. 29, 2017, in Edmonton, Alberta. Sasakamoose is recognized as becoming the league's first Canadian aboriginal player in 1953, and he turned into a First Nations hero. But historians and the Hall of Fame would give that distinction to Mohawk player Paul Jacobs if he played in a game during the 1918-19 season. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
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Hockey's history shows diverse pioneers

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A black-footed ferret is seen in a temporary trap prior to being vaccinated against sylvatic plague, a disease that periodically decimates populations of the highly endangered mammals, at a ferret reintroduction site on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Thusday, Oct. 6, 2022, near Fort Belknap Agency, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Northern Plains tribes bring back their wild 'relatives'

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A concrete walkway allows golfers access to the top of an Indigenous mound at Moundbuilders Country Club in Newark, Ohio. The mound, shown here in 2000, is part of the Newark Earthworks, which are being considered for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The lack of public access, however, could derail the nomination. (Photo by Jeff Adkins, The Columbus Dispatch, via AP)
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Court sides with history society’s access to earthworks

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Girls carry a dying sheep in the Cconchaccota community of the Apurimac region in Peru, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022 amid an ongoing drought. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
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Lagoon dries up as drought grips southern Andes

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In this Nov. 20, 2018 photo, a customer watches video screens at a sportsbook in Atlantic City, N.J. On Thursday, March 11, 2021, BetMGM and Buffalo Wild Wings launched a program where special sports betting products are offered to customers at one of the chain's restaurants in New Jersey, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Tribes sign gambling compacts in North Dakota

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Allison Morrisette and Mary Beth Holzwarth were named Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons coordinator and a human trafficking coordinator in South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of South Dakota Attorney General's office)
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South Dakota hires missing Indigenous, trafficking positions

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In this aerial photo released by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Mauna Loa volcano is seen erupting from vents on the Northeast Rift Zone on the Big Island of Hawai'i, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Hawai'i's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, began spewing ash and debris from its summit, prompting civil defense officials to warn residents on Monday to prepare in case the eruption causes lava to flow toward communities. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)
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For many Native Hawaiians, lava flows are a time to honor, reflect

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An attendee of the 2022 White House Tribal Nations Summit records President Joe Biden's remarks from his cell phone in Washington, D.C., on November 30, 2022. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye/ICT)
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Nevada site sacred to tribes to be national monument

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An artesian well, shown here in March 2022, provides drinking water for local residents along the Kakagon River that flows through the wild rice sloughs on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa lands in Odanah, Wisconsin. The Bad River river is facing erosion that could cause damage to the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline opposed by water protectors. The Kakagon River is part of the Bad River watershed (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/Indian Country Today)
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Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan

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The 2022 White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington D.C. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye/ICT)
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Joe Biden pledges new commitments, respect for tribal nations

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Pictured: The Cherokee Nation welcomed two new bison bulls to its heard in Delaware County. The two bison originated from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and were transferred to the Cherokee Nation’s bison ranch, as part of a preservation effort to reconnect tribes with the historically significant animals through the InterTribal Buffalo Council.
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Bison's relocation to Native lands revives a spiritual bond

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U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola being interviewed at an election night watch party in Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2022. She won re-election after all ranked-choice votes were counted. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)
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Mary Peltola, 1st Alaska Native in Congress, wins full term

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Tribespeople perform an indigenous folk dance in village Guduta, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, Oct. 20, 2022. India's 110 million indigenous tribespeople scattered across various states and fragmented into hundreds of clans, with different legends, different languages and different words for their gods adhere to Sarna Dharma - a faith not officially recognized by the government. It is a belief system that shares common threads with the world's many ancient nature-worshipping religions. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Clinging to ancient faith, India tribes seek religion status

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The Havasupai Tribe and Grand Canyon National Park announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, that Indian Garden will be renamed Havasupai Gardens. (Courtesy photo)
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Popular campground changes offensive name to Havasupai Gardens

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A view of Waikiki, HA, March 25, 2022 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)
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2 Native Hawaiian men guilty of hate crime

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FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed "net pen" used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic Salmon near Cypress Island in Washington state on Aug. 28, 2017, after a failure of the nets allowed tens of thousands of the nonnative fish to escape. A Washington state jury on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, awarded the Lummi Indian tribe $595,000 over the 2017 collapse of the net pen where Atlantic salmon were being raised, an event that elicited fears of damage to wild salmon runs and prompted the Legislature to ban the farming of the nonnative fish. (David Bergvall/Washington State Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)
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Fish-farming net pens banned, citing salmon threat

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Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes, part of an effort by Indigenous groups working with federal officials to expand the number of bison on reservations. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Bison spread as tribes reclaim stewardship

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