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"Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor" by William Halsall, 1882 at Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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A tale of two colonizing peoples, the Puritans and Pilgrims

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This is a segment of the "The Baptism of Ixtlilxóchitl of Texcoco," painteed by José Vivar y Valderrama in the 18th century. (Photo from the Museo Nacional de Historia via Wikimedia Commons)
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Spanish colonizers: 'Accept our king, our god − or else'

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Sunrise at the solstices and equinoxes in the Northern Hemisphere. (J. Ybarra, The Conversation, CC BY-NC)
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Reclaiming summer solstice celebrations, using them to resist

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Ukrainian soldiers fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. French manufacturers have halved or better the manufacturing times for some of the weapons systems they are supplying to Ukraine, as France increasingly switches away from its previous policy of dipping into its own military stocks to furnish the war effort against Russia, the French defense minister said in an interview published Thursday Jan. 18, 2024. . (AP Photo/Libkos)
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Indigenous activism and Russia’s war in Ukraine

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Indigenous Coast Salish women wove woolly dogs’ fur into blankets. (Artist's reconstruction by Karen Carr, Conversation)
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New analysis confirms precolonial lineage of extinct breed

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A field of corn is shown in this Nov. 23, 2018, photo. (Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash.com)
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Returning the ‘three sisters’ to Native American farms

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Alcatraz Island, Nov. 25, 2021. (Photo by Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today)
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Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement

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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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An Indigenous perspective on buffalo

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Filming continues in Fairfax, Oklahoma on the set of the upcoming film, "Killers of the Flower Moon." Director Martin Scorsese, lead actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Jesse Plemons were on set July 23, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Cody Hammer, Osage News)
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The biggest thief of Native wealth

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The author captures threads of a dialect by recording words for “Michipicoten” in an open-air meeting with community elders. (John-Paul Chalykoff)
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Working to revitalize an Indigenous language

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This 16th century engraving shows Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas, where he and his explorers deemed the Indigenous people there as "primitive," as they had no writing system. (Theodor de Bry, Wikimedia Commons)
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Alien contact could end in colonization and genocide

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The Montana Capitol with each of the state's tribal flags. (Eliza Wiley/Montana Free Press)
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New anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples

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Ancestral Comanche or Shoshone horse and rider image at Tolar in southern Wyoming. (Photo courtesy of Pat Doak)
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New evidence supports old stories

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Pictured: Wabanaki Alliance.
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Maine tribes left out of tribal resurgence

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Harm Reduction Outreach Specialist Sharon Bruns (left) and volunteer Alex Lane register people as they arrive at a temporary COVID-19 vaccine site organized by the Siletz Community Health Clinic for tribal members and their families in Salem. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy for Underscore.news)
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Breaking the cycle

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Greenlandic Inuit hunter Nukappi Brandt steers his small boat as he and his elder daughter Aaneeraq, 9, scan the water for seals, outside Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland, in July 2011. Brandt, whose other daughter Luusi, 8, is pictured at left, has been a hunter since age 14. Roughly 20 years ago, Brandt says, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dog sleds, seal hunting ceased to become a sustainable way of life here. (Brennan Linsley/AP/Shutterstock)
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What's going on with the Greenland ice sheet?

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A family in northern Siberia watches – but decides not to hunt – a musk ox that wandered into the area where they live. (Photo by John Ziker, The Conversation)
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Learn about conservation – and trust – from Indigenous societies

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A series of turquoise signs along southbound U.S. 89 near Tuba City proclaims the Navajo Nation’s resiliency. “Resiliency is who we are. But we also need to reclaim it,” says Keith Howard, a wildlife technician with the tribal Climate Change Program. (File photo by Sierra Alvarez/Cronkite News)
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Why Indigenous communities need a seat at the table on climate

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A sign at the Native American community of San Idefonso Pueblo, N.M., urges visitors to stay away as small Indian pueblos throughout the state seek to shield themselves from COVID-19 infection, Thursday, April 23, 2020. San Ildefonso was invited to participate in universal testing by state health officials. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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Tribes mount organized responses to COVID

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