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Biden declares October 11 Indigenous Peoples' Day and says restoring national monuments is the 'easiest thing I've ever done so far as President'
Biden recognized Native Americans' "vibrant and diverse" cultures, as well as the violence they end…
Morgan Keith
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A prominent California law school named after a US official who funded the forced removal and killings of Indigenous people wants to be renamed
The college is known for having propelled several noteworthy names into the spotlight, including Vi…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Washington state will alert the public to missing Indigenous people, and other states should follow, advocates say
"Now that we do have that moment of spotlight, what we need to do is get together and really let pe…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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On Indigenous Peoples' day, activists marched in Washington DC demanding action on climate change
People raise their fists during a climate change protest on Indigenous Peoples' Day outside the Whi…
DeArbea Walker
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An Indigenous mom says if her 2 daughters' deaths 'even had half the coverage' of Gabby Petito's 'maybe they would be solved'
Nicole Wagon's daughter was murdered in 2019. A year later, her other daughter went missing and was…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The first Indigenous poet laureate in US history reflects on her mission for equity for Native American people
Monday marks The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
Marguerite Ward
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The bodies of 215 children have been found buried at a former Canadian school for Indigenous people
The chief of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation called the discovery an "unspeakable loss." So…
Paul Squire
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A Georgia elementary school removes assignment instructing students to write a letter as 'an American settler' to Andrew Jackson in favor of removing Indigenous people from their land
Students were told to write to President Andrew Jackson as a settler explaining why "removing the C…
Katie Balevic
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Justin Trudeau took the knee 3 times at an anti-racism protest, but he's being called on to do more to address Canada's racism and indigenous deaths
Justin Trudeau kneeled in Ottawa as protests sparked by George Floyd's death continue, but he's bei…
Sinéad Baker
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Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished from a Montana reservation in 2017. Her sister says that before she went missing, she wanted to bring awareness to missing and murdered indigenous women.
"Ashley said she wanted to help missing women," Kimberly Loring told Insider. "And a few months lat…
Azmi Haroun
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Harvard University is still holding on to the remains of 7,000 Native Americans following acknowledgment of slavery and eugenics experiments
The leak comes a month after a faculty committee published a report highlighting Harvard's role in …
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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The remains of 761 children were found at another former Indigenous school in Canada
The finding in Saskatchewan comes weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at another for…
Sinéad Baker
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Brazil's indigenous people face a possible 'genocide' as their coronavirus death rate soars even higher than the rest of the hard-hit country
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil found the coronavirus death rate among Brazil's in…
Sinéad Baker
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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured its first land acknowledgment ritual for native tribes
The rituals honored the Wampanoag and Lenape people and took place in the Lenape territory of Manah…
Ellen Cranley
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The revelation of Canada's cultural genocide against native people should shake the world into a historical reckoning that extends beyond empty apologies
The graves of indigenous children were found at Canadian residential school sites. The rest of the …
Parisa Hashempour
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Stunning photos show the reality for indigenous people living in the Amazon as fires burn
Farmers are responsible for many of the fires, burning off forest to make room for cattle and crops…
James Pasley,James Pasley,Pau…
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Pope Francis begged for forgiveness over the 'catastrophic' abuse inflicted upon Indigenous children by Canada's Church-run residential schools
"I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peopl…
Matthew Loh
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710 Indigenous people, mostly girls, were reported missing over the past decade in Wyoming, the same state where Gabby Petito reportedly disappeared
Search efforts for Petito, whose disappearance has caused a national furor, have focused on Grand T…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Activists ask MacKenzie Scott to help fund their efforts to stop Amazon from building its Africa headquarters on sacred native land
"Amazon will forever and irrevocably be associated with modern-day colonial dispossession" if the p…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Australian bushfires burned 46 million acres in less than a year. This Aboriginal tradition could help the country fight back next time.
Long before European colonizers settled in Australia, Aboriginal groups have been setting their own…