Historical Research
Although human hunting played a part in the demise of the woolly mammoth about 10,000 years ago, homo sapiens were but bit players in a global drama involving climate change,
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June 13, 2012 // 0 Comments
The 11th Session of the top forum for Indigenous peoples in the world began with a lurch. The sixteen-member Forum elected, by acclamation, Grand Chief Edward John to be
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June 12, 2012 // 0 Comments
The history of Oklahoma—a Choctaw word meaning “Red People”—has done everything it could to finish the job the U.S. started in destroying American Indian government,
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June 12, 2012 // 0 Comments
After labelling certain environmental and first nations groups as extremists and radicals, Canada’s federal government, along with the country’s top law enforcement and
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June 11, 2012 // 0 Comments
On June 5 2012, Norman Matchewan, a youth spokesperson for the First Nation of Mitchikanibiko’inik (the Algonquins of Barriere Lake), was acquitted on what community
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June 11, 2012 // 0 Comments
As a result of the battle to defend ethnic studies, an incredible support nationwide has been created for Tucson’s embattled Mexican American studies department. As far as
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June 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
I spent 10 weeks in Venezuela in early 2012, two months with a group of 30 students from the Evergreen State College and then two weeks continuing my travels with a good
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June 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
Maya history–and the civilization’s “collapse”–continue to occupy the minds of archeologists. Some research points to a series of droughts as
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June 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient rectangular altar and an unfinished stela monument at the Chalcatzingo archaeological site in the central state of Mexico. According
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June 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
The Patuca River is like a highway for over 25 Miskitu, Tawaka and Pech communities that live on its shores; there are no roads in this part of the Gracias a Dios department.
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June 5, 2012 // 0 Comments