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Indigenous Massacres in the US

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Pine Ridge Reservation in Lakota

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Predominant Pre-Contact Housing Types

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Ramadan Mubarak.
One day the sun admitted,
Today as they dye the Šikaakwa Siipiiwi (Chicago River) green, we're remembering it's significance, as a major traditional portage route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, as a place once abundant with šikaakwa (ramps).
Ingenious, Indigenous cartography: The Tunumiit (Eastern Greenlandic Inuit) practice of carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark.
Does your local museum or university still have stolen Native American remains?
Corporations want to bring back child labor, and some states are on board.
Map: andywoodruff.com
ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project is the single largest proposed oil extraction project currently threatening US public lands. @joebiden @secdebhaaland - keep your climate promises and stop this project once and for all.
They paved paradise.
Before it was burned down by the British in 1873, Kumasi had been, for centuries, a city of wide avenues lined by homes with central courtyards and verandas facing the street. The clay walls were sculpted with symbols like sankofa to represent Asante proverbs.
It's been 28 years since Philippine Mining Act of 1995 opened the floodgates for the massive plunder and destruction of natural resources, displacement of communities, and violations of the collective rights of Indigenous peoples by transnational corporations. This map features mining tenements in the Philippines, which are defined as all tenurial instruments providing mining rights.
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