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‘Peace Circle’ commemorates 1843 Treaty of Bird’s Fort at Grapevine, Texas
September 27, 2021The Treaty of Bird’s Fort was the result of years of conflict and bloodshed between Native American nations and the onrushing tide of white settlers who later called themselves Texans.
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Fate of the Piripkura tribe in hands of agency controlled by Bolsonaro
September 24, 2021“White men” had arrived in their remote forest in the northwest of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, ready to plunder Indigenous land.
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Indigenous Brazilians converge on Supreme Court ahead of crucial land rights case
August 27, 2021The Brazilian government wants to tie Indigenous land claims to disputed date linked to military dictatorship’s end.
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Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’
August 12, 2021Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.
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Oh, Canada…Home and Native land?
June 29, 2021Evidence piles up of genocide against Native children in Canada. People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney weighs in.
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