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President Biden greets members of a Native American community upon arrival at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Biden promised to visit a Native American tribe. He's finally going, in a swing state

Biden visits Arizona on Friday to apologize for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding schools that ran for over 150 years, and also trumpet the administration's policies to help Native American communities.

October 25, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Muscogee Nation Secretary of Culture and Humanities Raelynn Butler outside the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, before a hearing in the case between the Muscogee Nation and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

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  • Law

A decades-long dispute between two tribes gets an airing in Atlanta's 11th Circuit Court

A yearslong dispute between two federally recognized tribes — the Muscogee Nation from Oklahoma and Poarch Band of Creek Indians from Alabama — over the future of the remains of people from which both tribes claim descent was heard in the Federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.

September 25, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Pond Inlet on Baffin Island is one of the Inuit communities in the Canadian arctic facing a TB outbreak.

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  • Global Health

Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic?

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
What's the best way to revitalize a language? In the Lakota Nation, that's very much up for debate.

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  • Race

In Lakota Nation, people are asking: Who does a language belong to?

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning it easier? Or should the language stay as it always has been, defined by many different ways of writing and speaking? We explore this complex, multi-generational fight that's been unfolding in the Lakota Nation, from Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.

March 28, 2024
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By:
  • Christina Cala,
  • Xavier Lopez,
  • and 8 more
"My participation in the march as an Amazonian woman is to praise our rights and violence worldwide." Portrait of Josefina Tunki, the ex-Executive President of the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam People in Puyo, Ecuador, March 8, 2024.

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  • World

Ecuadorian Indigenous Women on why they march

Women from different Indigenous nationalities traveled from their territories to Puyo, Ecuador on March 8 to march through the city's streets as they do every year on International Women's Day

March 16, 2024
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By:
  • Tatiana Lopez
Sunita Kumari Chaudhary weaves a dinner table mat with ropes once used by climbers in the Himalayas. She and her fellow craftswomen are part of a small start-up project in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, to repurpose Everest trash.

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  • Global Health

Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

They're turning cast-off climbing ropes into handmade crafts. It's part of a fledgling effort in Nepal to repurpose mountain waste and provide economic opportunity.

February 25, 2024
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By:
  • Tanka Dhakal
Teyra Yudaw (left) and his daughter, Ciwang Teyra, are members of Taiwan's Indigenous Truku tribe.

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  • Asia

In the battle over identity, a centuries-old issue looms in Taiwan: hunting

Taiwan has endured colonial forces over centuries. The island's Indigenous people have borne the brunt of this violent history and are still fighting for inclusion and acceptance.

January 30, 2024
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • Ailsa Chang,
  • and 2 more
Umesh Balal, an activist and member of the Indigenous Magar people of Nepal, says people with disabilities need to be part of the climate conversation.

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  • Global Health

This 28-year-old from Nepal is telling COP28: Don't forget people with disabilities

Umesh Balal is determined to make the voices of people with disabilities, young people and Indigenous people heard at the world's largest meeting on climate change.

December 12, 2023
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  • Ruchi Kumar
Supporters hold up a banner displaying the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as they cheer for the Haudenosaunee Nationals during a July 23, 2023 match against England in San Diego, Calif.

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  • Sports

Biden backs an Indigenous lacrosse team for the 2028 Olympics. It's an uphill fight

Lacrosse will be an Olympic sport in 2028. President Biden says he supports efforts by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to field its own team. But the IOC says not so fast.

December 07, 2023
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  • Lexie Schapitl
Achuar people ply the Rio Wichimi in a solar canoe. The nonprofit Kara Solar has helped fund a fleet of six sun-powered craft in hopes of benefitting the Indigenous Achuar while reducing pressure to build roads in the rainforest.

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  • Global Health

In Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, solar-powered boats are a boon for the trees

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it's not just to save money on fuel — the trees of the rainforest will benefit too.

December 04, 2023
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  • Peter Yeung
The 2023 Ocmulgee to Okmulgee Tour traveled on a chartered jet from Middle Georgia Regional Airport to Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Liz Fabian)

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  • News

Oklahoma visit strengthens ties with Muscogee (Creek) Nation

A Macon-Bibb delegation visits Okmulgee and Tulsa, Okla., to foster relationships and cultural understanding ahead of potential National Park designation.

October 11, 2023
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
Earlier this year, the Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the "Doctrine of Discovery," which has its origins in 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees.

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  • Religion

Churches confess and repent for sins against Native and Indigenous people

Many Christian denominations in recent years have repudiated a doctrine that was used to justify the subjugation of Native and Indigenous people. That's now playing out in local congregations.

October 06, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
The park formerly named Calhoun Square, located at Abercorn and East Wayne Streets in downtown Savannah, as seen Sunday after councilmembers voted to remove Calhoun's name from it.

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  • History

A historic town square in Savannah may soon get a new namesake. Learn about some of the nominees

A Native American tribe, a Black newspaper publisher and a fallen soldier are among the potential namesakes for the former Calhoun Square.

August 23, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The park formerly named Calhoun Square, located at Abercorn and East Wayne Streets in downtown Savannah, as seen Sunday after councilmembers voted to remove Calhoun's name from it.

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  • History

Savannah ‘shero’ tops list of recommendations for city's historic square renaming

The Park and Tree Commission's shortlist now heads to City Council, which is not bound to the recommendations.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The park formerly named Calhoun Square, located at Abercorn and East Wayne Streets in downtown Savannah, as seen Sunday after councilmembers voted to remove Calhoun's name from it.

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  • History

15 options are set for the renaming of a historic Savannah town square. Here's the list

Councilmembers will vote later this year on a new name for the former Calhoun Square.

June 14, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
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