Tag: indigenous people
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States in Colorado River basin pitch new ways to absorb shortages but clash on the approach
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U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin are suggesting new ways to determine how to absorb shortages in supply
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Commercial air tours over New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument will soon be prohibited
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Officials say commercial air tours over New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument and within a half-mile outside its park boundary will soon be prohibited
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Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception in the 1960s and 1970s
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 million)
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A US appeals court ruling could allow mine development on Oak Flat, land sacred to Apaches
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An Apache group that has fought to protect land it considers sacred from a copper mining project in central Arizona has suffered a significant blow
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Penn Museum buries the bones of 19 Black Philadelphians, causing a dispute with community members
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For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that were once used to promote white supremacy through racist scientific research
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Rio’s Carnival parade makes urgent plea to stop illegal mining in Indigenous lands
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Carnival dancers have taken the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro to pay tribute to Brazil’s largest Indigenous group and pressure President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to deliver on promises to eradicate illegal mining
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Indonesian presidential vote highlights tradeoffs between fast growth and a healthy environment
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Tradeoffs between strong growth and a healthy environment are not dominating the headlines in the runup to the Feb. 14 presidential election in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy
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New Mexico legislators seek endowment to bolster autonomous tribal education programs
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New Mexico legislators want to create a unique educational endowment of at least $50 million to help Native American communities create their own student programs, including efforts to teach and preserve Indigenous languages
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Microsoft’s Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged more than a thousand Indian computer code developers to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products
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Special counsel investigating Biden’s handling of classified documents has completed probe, AG says
Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department special counsel investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents has completed his inquiry and a report is expected to be made public soon