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Columbus' voyages sparked epidemics that killed so many people, it may have crashed carbon dioxide levels worldwide
Columbus' expedition to North and South America brought not only conquest and exploitation to the r…
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A Native woman launched a forensics nonprofit to address missing and murdered Indigenous people after her relative went missing and was never found
After growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation, Haley Omeaso is launching Ohkomi Forensics to help f…
Kelsey Vlamis
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How US nuclear tests in the '70s led to today's thriving otter population on the Pacific west coast
Before the US set off a nuclear weapons test, it moved hundreds of otters to the US and British Col…
Jenny McGrath
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The 2020 US Census undercounted Black, Latino and Indigenous households while White and Asian populations were overcounted, officials say
The census, which is mandated every 10 years under the US Constitution, is used to decide Congressi…
Natalie Musumeci
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Climate change forced an Indigenous community in Louisiana to relocate from their ancestral land: 'I will always have a feeling of being displaced'
For generations, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe called the Isle de Jean Charles home. Due to c…
Isaiah Reynolds
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With Roe overturned, Indigenous communities say it was always impossible for them to access abortion services
Due to an amendment that restricts federal funding from going toward abortions, Indigenous people h…
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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New report on Native American boarding schools reveals the US government said it would force Indigenous people to 'resort to agricultural labor or starve'
Between 1819 and 1969, the federal government operated or supported 408 Native American boarding sc…
DeArbea Walker,Paul Squire
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As Roe faces being overturned, Indigenous communities say it was always impossible for them to access abortion services
Due to an amendment that restricts federal funding from going toward abortions, Indigenous people h…
DeArbea Walker
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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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Australia says it will give $55,000 to survivors of an old practice that took indigenous children from their families to live in white communities
As many as one in three indigenous children were taken between 1910 and the 1970s, on the belief th…
Matthew Loh
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An Indigenous producer says he was stopped from walking the Cannes Film Festival red carpet for wearing moccasins
A festival representative apologized after producer Kelvin Redvers was turned away from the red car…
Mikhaila Friel
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Canadian couple who traveled more than 1,000 miles to get COVID-19 vaccines meant for vulnerable Indigenous people could face jail time
Rodney and Ekaterina Baker are accused of leaving Vancouver and flying more than 1,000 miles by pri…
Joshua Zitser
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Millionaire Canadians flew by private plane to a remote province to get vaccines meant for elderly First Nations people, officials say
Rodney and Ekaterina Baker were caught at the airport while they were on their way home, and receiv…
Sinéad Baker
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No Indigenous women and few women of color were TV guests on 2020 Sunday morning news shows
During election, COVID-19, and George Floyd news, no Indigenous women, few Black, Latina, AAPI wome…
Gwen Aviles
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A global coalition is demanding intervention from Brazil to protect Amazon tribes 'on the eve of a genocide' from coronavirus
Oprah, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, and others signed a demand for the Brazilian government to interven…
Isaac Scher
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New Mexico natives mark Indigenous Peoples' Day by toppling a monument to colonialism
Two people chained themselves to an obelisk in Santa Fe Plaza to demand the immediate removal of a …