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Si'u Point Trail, Ta'u Island, National Park of American Samoa. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Interior)
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American Samoa culture plays role in US citizenship ruling

The Little Pee Dee River in South Carolina, is in the traditional homelands of the Pee Dee Indian Tribe. (Photo by Pollinator Courtesy of Wikimedia)
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Native burial grounds found by historians

A hand sanitizer station and a sign asking guests to follow proper social distancing and sanitation measures are seen near the cashier station on the casino floor at the Mohegan Sun, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Uncasville, Conn. Connecticut's two federally recognized tribes, Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes, said they're planning to reopen parts of their southeastern Connecticut casinos on June 1, despite Gov. Ned Lamont saying it's too early and dangerous. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Connecticut casinos sue insurer over COVID-19 losses

Spokesperson of the Yaqui people Tomas Rojo Valencia participated in the inauguration of the second Festival of Indigenous Cultures, Peoples and Original Neighborhoods of Mexico City in the Zócalo on Thursday, August 27, 2015. (Photo by Antonio Nava, Secretary of Culture via Creative Commons)
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Mexican police find corpse, probably Indigenous activist

Governor Ned Lamont and Mashantucket Pequot Tribe Chairman Rodney Butler. (Photo by The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, Facebook)
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Connecticut budget implementation bill includes Native studies

Idaho’s Capitol. (Photo courtesy of Idaho.gov)
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Tribe sues over hunting rights

With Mexico to the right, crews stand in a pathway cleared by explosives to make way for border wall construction, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Guadalupe Canyon, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Spirituality underpins migrant activism in borderlands

FILE - In this June 6, 2021 file photo, a couple dances tango at a park amid the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nostalgia for dance makes many tango dancers, or tangueros, defy restrictions with clandestine milongas in closed places or public spaces. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
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In Argentina, pandemic exacts a toll on tango culture

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is surrounded by reporters as senators rush to the chamber for votes ahead of the approaching Memorial Day recess, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Lawmakers still face standoffs on an infrastructure bill, police reform, voting rights, and a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Dems eye $6T plan on infrastructure, Medicare, immigration

FILE - In this May 11, 2021, file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The United States is devoting more than $3 billion to advance development of antiviral pills for COVID-19, according to an official briefed on the matter. The pills, which would be used to minimize symptoms after infection, are in development and could begin arriving by year's end, pending the completion of clinical trials. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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US to spend $3.2B on COVID-19, other viruses treatments

FILE - This updated handout photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, shows a signed copy of Emancipation Proclamation. The rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln and then-Secretary of State William Seward will be displayed when Illinois lawmakers sign a Juneteenth holiday into law. Illinois became the latest state to make Juneteenth an official state holiday as Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a measure Wednesday, June 16, 2021, near the signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum photo via AP, File)
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The story of Juneteenth, the new federal holiday

President Joe Biden speaks with Opal Lee after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 17, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Joe Biden makes Juneteenth a federal holiday

Reuben Anderson, seated left, and Mary Graham, and other members of a commission that will recommend a new Mississippi state flag, discuss flag choices on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. The screen above Anderson and Graham shows people participating remotely in the commission meeting and images of nine flags chosen as finalists, although a graphic artist was set to make small changes to some of the designs. Mississippi recently retired the last state flag in the U.S. that included the Confederate battle emblem. (Photo by Emily Wagster Pettus, AP)
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New Mississippi flag is significant to the Choctaw culture

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senators press Deb Haaland on oil lease pause

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is held by pharmacist Madeline Acquilano at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. U.S. health officials are weighing next steps as they investigate unusual blood clots in a small number of people given the vaccine -- a one-dose shot that many countries hoped would help speed protection against the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Vaccine supplies eclipse demand in New Mexico

Connecticut State Capitol. (Photo by pedrik, Creative Commons)
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Towns face losing funds if mascots don't change

FILE - In this May 3, 2021, file photo Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during a roundtable discussion at Howard University in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP, File)
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Energy Secretary says US wants ‘responsible’ lithium mining

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WA panel approves sports betting; sends to governor

Pictured: This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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As US COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue _ whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Justices consider Harvard case on race in college admissions

Rufino Choque, the mayor of the Urus del Lago Poopo indigenous community, waits for the arrival of instructors, in Punaca, Bolivia, Monday, May 24, 2021. Lago Poopo, Bolivia's second-largest lake, gave life to a rich culture since the first men set foot on the Altiplano but it dried up about five years ago. “We are ancient, but we have no territory. Now we have no source of work, nothing,” said Choque. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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'People of the Water' try to survive loss of lake

Misak Indigenous people take part in an anti-government protest triggered by proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions, in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Report: Colombian police cause deaths of 20 protesters

In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, a protester plays a drum and sings while joined by other Native American protesters opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline at the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre. Major construction projects moving forward along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic are raising fears workers could spread infections within nearby communities, including several Native American tribes. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)
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Fight over oil rages on after pipeline's demise

This June 30, 2017 remote camera image released by the U.S. Forest Service shows a female gray wolf and her mate with a pup born in 2017 in the wilds of Lassen National Forest in Northern California. Trump administration officials on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, stripped Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in most of the U.S., ending longstanding federal safeguards and putting states in charge of overseeing the predators. (U.S. Forest Service via AP, File)
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Joe Biden aims to restore species protections

Pictured: The Bristol Bay watershed in Alaska nourishes thriving salmon runs.
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Proposed conservation plans could affect Alaska mine project

Bineshii Hermes-Roach, citizen of the Bad River Ojibwe tribe, traveled to the Mississippi River Enbridge Line 3  crossing at Solway, Minnesota on Monday,  June 7, 2021, to join water protectors. Bad River is involved with the battle against Enbridge's Line 5. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today)
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Protesters maintain blockade at oil pipeline site

Tracy Stone-Manning listens during a confirmation hearing for her to be the director of the Bureau of Land Management, during a hearing of the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Nominee for public lands boss faces opposition

Pictured: Montana State Capitol Building in Helena.
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Montana bans critical race theory programs

Pope Francis celebrates Easter Mass at St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican Sunday, April 4, 2021, during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Filippo Monteforte/Pool photo via AP)
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Pope voices 'pain' over residential school deaths, doesn't apologize

Volunteer Santiago Sanchez, left, measures the height of a baby boy alongside the baby's mother at a health center in Cachoche village near Tizamarte, Guatemala, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. A nurse vaccinates and measures babies and spots the effects of malnutrition at this community center where there is no running water. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Guatemalan lives upturned by failed immigration bids

Volunteers put up orange shirts before a press conference and prayer vigil at the former Muscowequan Indian Residential School, one of the last residential schools to close its doors in Canada in 1997 and the last fully intact residential school still standing in Saskatchewan at Muskowekwan First Nation, Saskatchewan, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. The vigil was in response to the remains of 215 children recently found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. (Kayle Neis/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Trudeau: Residential schools part of Canada's colonial past

Shoes sit on the Eternal flame in recognition of discovery of children's remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, on parliament hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday May 31, 2021. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Justin Trudeau wants Vatican apology for school abuses

A statue of Marcus Whitman stands next to a visitors' information desk in the Legislative Building at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., Wednesday, May 12, 2021. For generations, Whitman has been viewed as an iconic figure from early Pacific Northwest history, a venerated Protestant missionary who was among 13 people killed by the Cayuse tribe near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, in 1847. But this past year has seen the continued reappraisal of Whitman, whose actions are now viewed by many as imperialistic and destructive, and the Washington Legislature voted to remove a similar statue of Whitman from Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Scrutiny mounts of legacy of pioneering missionary

A sign promoting Native American participation in the U.S. census is displayed as Selena Rides Horse enters information into her phone on behalf of a member of the Crow Indian Tribe in Lodge Grass, Mont. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. There are more than 300 Native American reservations across the country, and almost all lag the rest of the country in participation in the census. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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South Dakota redistricting to focus on cities, tribal lands

Samantha Maltais, of New Bedford, Mass., an incoming Harvard Law student, stands for a photograph, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in New Bedford. When Maltais steps onto Harvard's campus this fall, she'll become the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its prestigious law school. "Coming from a tribal community in its backyard, I'm hyper aware of Harvard's impact," said Maltais, the 24-year-old daughter of her tribe's chairwoman. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Calling Ivy Leagues, other colleges to do more

The San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation vaccination team at the old Boy's & Girl's club in March for a COVID-19 vaccination pop-up clinic. (Photo courtesy of Chairman Terry Rambler's Facebook page)
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Apache tribe nearly halts spread of coronavirus

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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EXPLAINER: The suspension of Arctic refuge drilling leases

In this Jan. 23, 2019, file photo, Gov. Kristi Noem gives her first budget address to lawmakers at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. Noem will use her State of the State address to pitch prospective businesses on why they should move to South Dakota, the Republican governor told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/James Nord, File)
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Judge declines to order fireworks at Mount Rushmore

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits a memorial at the Eternal Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, that's in recognition of discovery of children's remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canadian minister: Pope needs to apologize to Indigenous

Flowers, children's shoes and other items rest at a memorial at the Eternal flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in recognition of discovery of children's remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canada to uncover more school graves sites where requested

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Fire officials aim to avoid megafires

This undated aerial photo shows the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Danielle Brigida, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Joe Biden suspends oil leases in Arctic refuge

In this Monday, June 15, 2020 photo, Kristi Williams speaks during an interview at her home in Tulsa, Okla. Unlike Black Americans across the country after slavery, Williams' ancestors and thousands of other Black members of slave-owning Indian nations freed after the war “had land,” says Williams, a Tulsa community activist. “They had opportunity to build a house on that land, farm that land, and they were wealthy with their crops." (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Freedmen's effect on Black Wall Street

Shoes sit on the Eternal flame in recognition of discovery of children's remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, on parliament hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday May 31, 2021. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canada: Bodies at residential school not isolated incident

A woman places children's moccasins as a tribute to all the victims of the residential school system outside St. Francis Xavier Church in Kahnawake, Quebec, Sunday, May 30, 2021. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canada lowers flags after discovery of bodies at school

Chief Egunwale Amusan, right, and Tiffany Crutcher, left, talk about a sign commemorating the original Black Wall Street while on a tour given by Amusan, in Tulsa, Okla., on Monday, April 12, 2021. Crutcher says, terrorized by the Tulsa Race Massacre, “My father’s grandmother, Rebecca Brown Crutcher, had to flee Greenwood in fear of her life." But the family stayed in Tulsa, enduring some of the same post-massacre hardships that generations of Black Tulsans endured: urban renewal, inequality on the north side and police brutality. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Tulsa Race Massacre's wounds still unhealed

The former Kamloops Indian Residential School is seen on Tk'emlups te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada on May 27, 2021. The remains of 215 children have been found buried on the site of the former residential school. (Andrew Snucins/The Canadian Press via AP)
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215 bodies found at residential school in Canada

FILE - In this March 22, 1998 file photo, Yanomami children stand arm in arm in the village of Demini in the Amazon jungle, Brazil. On Monday, May 24, 2021, a Supreme Court justice ordered the government to protect Indigenous populations, including the Yanomami, threatened in recent weeks by illegal miners who appear to have been emboldened by support for their industry from President Jair Bolsonaro. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
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Wildcat miners attack Indigenous in Brazil

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100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains

A hand sanitizer station and a sign asking guests to follow proper social distancing and sanitation measures are seen near the cashier station on the casino floor at the Mohegan Sun, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Uncasville, Conn. Connecticut's two federally recognized tribes, Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes, said they're planning to reopen parts of their southeastern Connecticut casinos on June 1, despite Gov. Ned Lamont saying it's too early and dangerous. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Connecticut governor signs sports betting bill