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Shuar Indigenous men listen to Ecuador's speakers at the opening of a new village, Comunidad del Milenio Panacocha in Ecuador's Amazon region, on Jan. 16, 2014, in this file photo. The Shuar people in 2022 finally won national protections for some of their lands in the ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest, which provides a home  and sustenance for the Shuar Indigenous community of El Kiim.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa/FILE)
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A postcard shows the now-closed Indian Residential School in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, circa 1940s. The Tseshaht First Nation began taking steps in early 2022 to search the site for unmarked graves of Indigenous children who attended the school and didn't return home. (Photo via Creative Commons/public domain)
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