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According to the treaty, those lands are a sovereign nation.
The Homestead Act, signed by President Lincoln, unleashed a flood of white settlers into Native lands.
Communal ownership of reservation lands ends.
And no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.
These are the anthers of a lily, cleverly done so that when the unsuspecting insect lands on it, the anther flips up and whops it on the back with a great load of pollen that it then goes to another plant with.
And when the insect gets there and lands on it, dousing itself in pollen, of course, that it's going to take to another plant, if you look at the every-home-should-have-one scanning electron microscope picture, you can see that there are actually some patterning there, which is three-dimensional.
What I mean by that is, if the world superpower today was a communist, it would be much easier for democracy activists to use democracy activism as a form of resistance against colonialism, than it is today with the world superpower being America, occupying certain lands and also espousing democratic ideals.
It is the most valuable trait we have for converting new lands and resources into more people and their genes that natural selection has ever devised.
The challenge I face when I hear this question is that often I have just returned from the Middle East where I spent my time filming dozens of Palestinians who are using nonviolence to defend their lands and water resources from Israeli soldiers and settlers.
The residents, after 10 months of peaceful resistance, convinced the Israeli government to move the route of the barrier off their lands and to the green line, which is the internationally recognized boundary between Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
They were going to be surrounded, lose a lot of their lands and not have freedom of access, either to the West Bank or Jerusalem.
All these horrific images playing out in front of us, being an indigenous person pushed off of Native lands again in 2017.
On one of the days that we faced a line of hundreds of police officers pushing us back, pushing us off indigenous lands, there were those teenagers out on horseback across the plains.
So when you look at something, like this image of this baby's face, it goes into your eye and it lands on your retina, on the front-end cells here, the photoreceptors.
No human lands on all fours like that.
We could farm more land, but the problem is the remaining lands are in sensitive areas.
Instead, we maybe want to freeze the footprint of agriculture and farm the lands we have better.
But the bird, instead of flying away, goes flop, flop, flop and lands on my head.
So anyway, she comes here, 1967, she's pregnant, and she comes from Ethiopia that was celebrating its own jubilee at the time under the Emperor Haile Selassie, and she lands months before the Enoch Powell speech, the "Rivers of Blood" speech.
She lands months before the Beatles release "The White Album," months before Martin Luther King was killed.
Across all of these diverse lands and cultures, the institutions, and the child's journey through them, is depressingly similar.
Once death has been detected, the turkey vulture lands and quickly scavenges.
The turkey vulture smells the decay, lands.
It shows you where the flight is, the gate, the terminal, how long until it lands.
It will cause saline deposited into wells and into lands.
But in our comfortable, safe, crowded lands, we have few opportunities to exercise them without harming other people.
It falls out of the air, lands right back in the hand.
If I do it slowly it goes straight away, it lands by your pocket.
We've noticed, in a trend among young Americans, that they read less history and less literature and less material about foreign lands, and they're essentially ahistorical.
Usually it does, and when it does, it even lands automatically.
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