Extinction
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In the wake of war, stolen land, boarding schools, laws banning religion, anthropologists collected sacred objects in the belief that Native peoples were on the cusp of
extinction
.
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Some are actually on the brink of
extinction.
About seven years ago, they faced extinction, because Israel announced it would build a separation barrier, and part of this barrier would be built on top of the village.
The Tasmanian devil has shown us that, not only can cancer be a contagious disease, but it can also threaten an entire species with
extinction.
It spreads through the population, has mutations that allow it to evade the immune system, and it's the only cancer that we know of that's threatening an entire species with
extinction.
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