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Stuck in blood-red soil
Indigenous people and ranchers are dying in southwestern Brazil in a century-old land war sparked by bad political decisions and a failed legislation. Ranchers have sworn to keep their land, even resorting to hiring private security, but native Indians want what they claim is their land, no matter how long it takes. By Carla Ruas.
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Genetics reveal 50,000 years of independent history of aboriginal Australian people
The first complete sequences of the Y chromosomes of Aboriginal Australian men have revealed a deep indigenous genetic history tracing all the way back to the initial settlement of the continent 50 thousand years ago, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology today.
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Remote Utah Enclave Becomes New Battleground Over Reach of U.S. Control
Conservation groups say a new monument here in the red-rock deserts would protect 1.9 million acres of culturally significant land from new mining and drilling. By Jack Healy.
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By rejecting $1bn for a pipeline, a First Nation has put Trudeau’s climate plan on trial
Canada’s Lax Kw’alaams show us how we can be saved: by loving the natural world and local living economies more than mere money and profit. By Martin Lukacs.
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On Totems
By Sarah McCarry. (Sept. 8)
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These Gorgeous Animated Shorts Celebrate 7 of Mexico's Indigenous Languages
The 68 Voces project aims to preserve Mexico’s indigenous languages and their myths, poems, and stories in the form of beautifully animated short films. By Andrew S. Vargas.
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The Secret River, silences and Australian history
The stage version of The Secret River gives us a deeper sense of our history. But can understanding the past from different perspectives help us confront the inequalities that linger in our present?
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Language Leakage: An Interview with Sarah Thomason
The linguist discusses how technology shapes culture and culture shapes words. By Ryan Bradley.
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Genetically Pure Bison Will Return to Montana After 100 Years in Exile
Next week, the Blackfeet Tribe will receive 89 buffalo calves that descended from Montana stock in a Canadian National Park. By Jason Daley.
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Joe Medicine Crow Walks On
He lived in two worlds. He enjoyed them.
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Supernatural Sound
Science and Shamanism in the Arctic. By Tim Fulford. (July ’13)
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The Remembrance of Amalek
“In both our paranoid fear of the Other, which in our history has included the Indian, the slave in potential revolt, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the Papist of nativist fantasy, and now the Islamic jihadist, we’ve been playing out the sacred ritual of reenacting King Philip’s War over, and over.” By Ed Simon.
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New monument to honor Paiutes slain in Circleville Massacre
A new memorial will mark a dark but rarely mentioned moment in Utah history when Mormon settlers slaughtered as many as 30 Paiute men, women and children in the small town of Circleville 150 years ago. By Dennis Romboy.
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Inuit Cartography
In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters...
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On This Reservation, Cannabis Is the New Casino
In Washington State, an enterprising Native American tribe is betting big on bud. Not everyone thinks it’s such a brilliant idea. By Amber Cortes.
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The struggle in Iqaluit: north and south collide in Canada's Arctic capital
Iqaluit shot to prominence in 1995 as the capital for a bold endeavour in Inuit self-government. But their fight to carve out a modern city that still pays tribute to ancient traditions had just begun.
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Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders
It wasn’t until Europeans took over North America that natives adopted the ideas of gender roles. For Native Americans, there was no set of rules that men and women had to abide by in order to be considered a “normal” member of their tribe. By Pearson McKinney.
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Utopia
Drawing on John Pilger's long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia (2013) is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
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The Man Who Spent 30 Years in the Rainforest Preserving the Music of the Bayaka
Louis Sarno went to record the music of the Central African Republic's Bayaka community in the 80s and never turned back. By Emiko Jozuka.
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David Bald Eagle, Lakota Chief, Musician, Cowboy And Actor, Dies At 97
He was also a war hero and a ballroom dancer — Bald Eagle’s life is hard to fit in a headline. He parachuted into Normandy, acted in Westerns and starred in his first feature film at the age of 95. By Camila Domonoske.
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