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Washington (AFP) - A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its rapid demise following European colonization, a study in Science showed Thursday. The new research was based on a genetic analysis of "Mutton," one of the last surviving Coast Salish woolly dogs whose pelt was sent to the nascent Smithsonian Institution in 1859, only to be largely forgotten until the early 2000s. Interviews contributed by Coast Salish tribal co-authors, meanwhile, revealed the dogs occupied a previou...
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Bloomington (United States) (AFP) - Linguistics experts are turning to cutting-edge technologies to revitalize threatened Native American languages -- and rejuvenate generations of Indigenous tradition -- through new approaches such as children's books and smartphone apps. In one such endeavor, three Native American women rack their brains as they gather around a computer, trying to remember -- and record -- dozens of Apache language words related to everyday activities such as cooking and eating. They are creating an online English-Apache dictionary, just one of several projects working to pr...
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Brasília (AFP) - Alessandra Korap Munduruku first turned to activism as she watched advancing agriculture devastate her Indigenous territory in Brazil, but it was her battle to drive out mining giant Anglo American that landed her in the spotlight. On Monday, the 38-year-old will be one of six people in the world presented with a Goldman Environmental Prize for efforts against the British multinational's efforts to set up in Indigenous territories in the Amazon. "We ran campaigns, wrote letters ... until they arrived in their hands and we told them that we would not accept any mining in our te...
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Southampton (United States) (AFP) - In the Hamptons, New York's playground for the rich and famous, a Native American tribe is battling with the latest threat to what's left of its traditional land: climate change. The Shinnecock, whose name means "people of the stony shore," have lived on Long Island for 13,000 years. Their villages stretched along the island's eastern end before land grabs by European settlers and later US authorities reduced their territory to an 800-acre (1.25 square-mile) peninsula. That low-lying land is now shrinking due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, and mak...
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Washington (AFP) - Matthew War Bonnet was just six years old when he was shipped off to a US government-funded boarding school in South Dakota for Native American children. Beaten, starved, stripped of his Lakota language and culture, the next eight years were "very painful and traumatic," War Bonnet told a House hearing on Thursday on a bill to create a "Truth and Healing Commission" on the boarding schools. The 76-year-old War Bonnet was one of several Native American survivors of federally funded boarding schools to testify about their harrowing experiences at the institutions. The hearing ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - UN human rights experts on Thursday urged the United States to step in and prevent a Native American tribe from evicting dozens of members from its tribal land. The special rapporteurs want the US government to prevent the Nooksack Tribal Council from forcing 63 people, who identify as members of the community, from houses on land in northwest Washington state. The case illustrates the complex relationship between the United States and the hundreds of indigenous tribal nations within its borders. "We are... concerned that the forced evictions will deny them the possibility ...
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Ottawa (AFP) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Friday for "harmful government policies" and did not rule out a criminal probe after hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at a former indigenous residential school in western Canada. The public mea culpa for the policy of indigenous assimilation and other historical wrongs comes one day after the Cowessess First Nation said it had found at least 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan province. It was the second such discovery in less than a month. "This was an incredibly harmful governm...
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Ottawa (AFP) - Canada's top court on Friday restored the ancestral rights in this country of an indigenous tribe declared "extinct" by the government a half century ago, but with roughly 3,000 descendants still living in the United States. In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court said the Sinixt Nation, who claimed to have once occupied a valley stretching from what is now Kettle Falls, Washington, to Revelstoke, British Columbia, have constitutionally protected rights to hunt on those territories. "Excluding aboriginal peoples who moved or were forced to move, or whose territory was divided by a ...
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