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Questions about the LandBack movement, answered
WEBAug 22, 2022 · Acrylic. Credit: Jimmy Gerald Stone (Seminole and Cherokee) September 1, 2022: Going Under Social Justice. Questions about the LandBack movement, answered. Number one: Why are Indians spray ...
The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
WEBMay 18, 2020 · Historians point to Christopher Gadsden — a slave-owning South Carolinian — as the namesake for the iconic yellow flag. Gadsden, a colonel in the Continental Army, is believed to have gifted ...
A reality check on Biden’s ‘30 by 30’ conservation plan
WEBJun 23, 2021 · A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed an executive order that announced his commitment to protecting 30% of U.S. land and water — over 720 million acres — by 2030. The move ...
Reckoning with History: The legacy of lynching in the West
WEBJul 13, 2018 · In his provocatively imagined and deeply researched visual history, “Lynching in the West: 1850-1935,” artist Ken Gonzales-Day compiled known lynchings in California from statehood until the ...
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Washington’s largest homeless encampment faces an uncertain …
WEBJul 19, 2022 · Covering a full city block just off of Interstate 90 a couple miles east of downtown Spokane, Camp Hope is home to more than 600 people, making it the largest encampment on state land in ...
6 things you should know about the 2021 Native American Voting …
WEBSep 10, 2021 · 4) The law will establish Native American voting task forces. NAVRA would establish state-level voting task forces to address some of the issues unique to Indian Country, including inadequate ...
The Supreme Court’s attack on tribal sovereignty, explained
WEBJul 1, 2022 · As part of its recent precedent-breaking spree, the U.S. Supreme Court turned federal Indian law on its head this week on Wednesday, June 29. In the case of Oklahoma v.Castro-Huerta, a majority of ...
Below Mount Shasta, a fight burbles over bottled water
WEBMay 28, 2018 · Mount Shasta reigns over Siskiyou County, a commanding presence even when cloaked in clouds. The snow on its flanks percolates into a vast underground aquifer of volcanic tunnels and bubbling ...