Indigenous studies classes to be required for graduation in B.C.

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“The new requirement — the first of its kind in Canada — will be in effect for students graduating in the 2023-2024 school year.”

B.C. high school students will soon have to take Indigenous studies to graduate. Secondary students in public, independent and offshore schools will be required to complete four credits of Indigenous-focused coursework. The Ministry of Education says the new requirement — the first of its kind...

U.S. can't exempt migrant children from border deportation policy, judge rules

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A federal judge in Texas on Friday ruled against the Biden administration's decision to exempt unaccompanied children from a Trump-era order that U.S. border agents have used to rapidly expel hundreds of thousands of migrants during the coronavirus pandemic. Granting a request made by...

In a Sign of the Times, Experts Across the Smithsonian Have Drafted Its First Institution-Wide Restitution Policy

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Anthropology & Archeology  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  4 years ago

“The new policy for returning objects of cultural heritage determined to have been unethically sourced will be made public this spring.”

“What do we want to be? How do we see our value as an institution today? What do we believe and what do we prioritize? What statements do we want to make about past acquisitions that may raise ethical concerns?” These were the questions, recalled by National Museum of Natural History curator...

1,700 racist lawmakers highlight the ubiquity of slaveholding in Congress

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“A Washington Post investigation suggests accounting for slavery’s influence on American life requires extensive political and chronological range.”

On Monday, The Washington Post published its investigation into the history of U.S. slaveholders who have held congressional office. The Post’s discovery that more than 1,700 members of Congress held people in bondage at some point in their lives is in many ways unsurprising. Somewhat more...

Wounded Knee Massacre

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The armed resistance was over. The remaining Sioux were forced into reservation life at gunpoint. Many Sioux sought spiritual guidance. Thus began a religious awakening among the tribes of North America. Arrival of the "Ghost Dance" Called the "Ghost Dance" by the white soldiers who observed...

Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past

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Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue. Her classmates stood around her at a...

The Value of a "Greater Chaco" National Park

Via: 1stwarrior  •  Anishinaabe - The First People  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

When President Biden recently announced his intention to ban mineral leases for 20 years within a 10-mile buffer zone around what is now called Chaco Culture National Park in northwest New Mexico, he continued a process begun more than a century ago when President Theodore Roosevelt invoked the...

The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More

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“The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetrated on Native Americans”

Jeff Campbell worked for 20 years as a criminal investigator for the state of New Mexico. He specialized in cold cases. These days, he applies his sleuthing skills to a case so cold it’s buried beneath a century and a half of windblown prairie. “Here’s the crime scene,” Campbell says, surveying...

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: November 29, 1864 – 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho Massacred at Sand Creek

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Monday, November 29, 2021, is the 157th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, where approximately 230 Cheyenne & Arapaho were killed at the hands of 675 U.S. soldiers, known as the Colorado territory militia. Among the dead were at least 105 women, children and elders....

3 men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death convicted of murder

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Three men were convicted of murder Wednesday in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was running empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision when the white strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street and blasted him with a shotgun. The February 2020 slaying drew limited...