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This Native Tribe Finally Took Back Their “Stolen Island”
The Passamaquoddy tribe has bought back its ancestral island, located off the coast of Maine, United States, 160 years after being cast out from it, thus regaining a piece of land loaded with sentimental value and spiritual importance.
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Animals
Animals USA
Endangered Bird Will Soon Soar Over Its Ancestral Land
After more than a decade of dedicated efforts to reintroduce the condor, the Yurok Tribe will see the endangered bird return to their ancestral land, in northern California, United States, bringing a sense of renewal for both people and the land.
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Society USA
For the First Time, a Native American Will Sit at the Cabinet Table in the White House
For the first time in American history, a Native American woman will lead the Interior Department, the federal agency instrumental to the demise of Indigenous communities. Her appointment is part of the healing process for America’s First Nations.
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Famous New York Museum Now Has a Manager for Native American Art. And She is Native American.
Patricia Marroquin Norby, of Purépecha heritage, becomes the inaugural associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, a first in the 150-year history of the institution.
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Environment
Environment USA
Sioux Tribe Builds Wind Farm, Names it “Breaking of the New Day”
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is developing a wind farm on its reservation in the Dakotas in the USA. They have named it Anpetu Wi - “the breaking of the new day” - in the Lakota language. It is the first tribal-owned public power wind farm.
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