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Now, if any of you have ever heard of AIM, the American Indian Movement, or of Russell Means, or Leonard Peltier, or of the standoff at Oglala, then you know Pine Ridge is ground zero for Native issues in the US.
So I've been asked to talk a little bit today about my relationship with the Lakota, and that's a very difficult one for me, because, if you haven't noticed from my skin color, I'm white, and that is a huge barrier on a Native reservation.
The Homestead Act, signed by President Lincoln, unleashed a flood of white settlers into Native lands.
With this event, a new era in Native American history began.
Everything can be measured before Wounded Knee and after, because it was in this moment, with the fingers on the triggers of the Hotchkiss guns, that the US government openly declared its position on Native rights.
2010: Statistics about Native population today, more than a century after the massacre at Wounded Knee, reveal the legacy of colonization, forced migration and treaty violations.
She was a leader of the Menominee tribe, a Native American peoples.
And when we would gather as fellows, she would push us to think about how the elders in Native American culture make decisions.
But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test.
They were bringing Native American peacemaking practices into a non-Native community for the very first time in the United States.
I work in a lab where we take cells out of their native environment.
I think that means doodling is native to us and we simply are denying ourselves that instinct.
My English name is Tara; my Native name is Zhaabowekwe.
They are Native people being pushed off their homelands from rising sea levels.
One in three Native women are raped in her lifetime.
All these horrific images playing out in front of us, being an indigenous person pushed off of Native lands again in 2017.
In Washington State, they've made the teaching of treaties and modern Native people mandatory in school curriculum.
Forty percent of Native people are under the age of 24.
A study published last year found that from birth, from the moment of birth, babies cry in the accent of their mother's native language.
It even makes its cries sound like the mother's language, which may further endear the baby to the mother, and which may give the baby a head start in the critical task of learning how to understand and speak its native language.
And I think that one of the reasons why so many of these groups have retained a link to the past, know their native languages, the songs, the dances, the traditions, I think part of that reason is because of the remoteness, the span and the wilderness of this almost 95 percent intact ecosystem.
Or like how in Honolulu, the large prison population of native Hawaiians like Kimmy is heavily influenced by the island's long history with US colonialization, its impact passing down through generations to today.
PV: It's not just knowing that native languages are dying.
The European rabbit has no natural predators in Australia, and it competes with native wildlife and damages native plants and degrades the land.
Now this was done to counter the annual celebration of rabbits and presumably make the public more comfortable with the killing of rabbits and promote an animal that's native to Australia, and actually an animal that is threatened by the European rabbit.
We can see that's a traditional Native American.
Tule is a reed that's native to California, and the best thing about working with it is that it smells just delicious.
What she was referring to was the fact that I could switch off the twang and slip into a native tongue, and so I chose to let her in on a few other things which locate me as a Motswana, not just by virtue of the fact that I speak a language or I have family there, but that a rural child lives within this shiny visage of fabulosity.
Listen to the sounds of why hearing matters to the Alaskan Native people.
Hearing loss makes it hard to fish on the open water, hunt caribou and harvest berries, activities central to Alaskan Native culture.
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