Robin Lacassin, Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) – USPC and Raphael Grandin, Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) – USPC
Oklahoma is trying to limit the number of earthquakes caused by oil and gas extraction, but some existing faults there – which could be activated by wastewater injection – have never been mapped.
A Menominee Tribal biology class in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Comparisons often ignore the troubling history of how Jackson treated Native Americans. An expert on Native American history draws parallels to the new administration.
A Mexican who was recently deported from the U.S. in Tijuana, Mexico.
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From Chinese laborers to 'bad hombres,' the US settler mentality has perpetuated an immigration system that pushes out unwanted groups and bypasses the Constitution.
A 2002 pipeline spill in Cohasset, Minnesota which released 6,000 barrels of crude oil.
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An anthropologist of the American West argues that protecting nature and our cultural heritage are good for business but few recognize how they are threatened by 'jobs-creating' oil pipelines.
In December, protesters in Standing Rock, North Dakota scored a big victory against a pipeline builder, yet the underlying problems have not been addressed.
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A Native American scholar explains why so little has changed despite the apparent victory of protesters opposing the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
John Gast’s ‘American Progress’ (1872), depicting the US’s westward expansion.
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Thousands of people, both those within Native American communities and their non-Native allies, felt called to go to Standing Rock. What was the motivation?
Gatherers in Cannon Ball, North Dakota celebrate news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won’t grant an easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
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The protesters have scored a big victory in the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, but it's served only to illuminate the sharp divisions over energy policy in the US.
Jennie A. Brownscombe’s ‘The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth’ (1914).
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Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Pilgrims were thankful for finally being able to vanquish Thomas Morton and Ferdinando Gorges, who spent years trying to undermine the legal basis for settlements in Massachusetts and beyond.
Members and supporters of the Arapaho and Cheyenne Native American tribes, 2014.
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A scholar of American Indian studies shares the lesser-known, true story of two men who stood up and spoke out against the murder of American Indians, and how they are celebrated as heroes today.
A better review of the cultural heritage might have prevented the face-off over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe protest construction of an oil pipeline near their reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
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What is the months-long North Dakota Access Pipeline protest really about? A Native American scholar connects the dots to environmental justice and the legacy of U.S. colonialism.
The Washington Redskins have been a flashpoint for the controversy surrounding Native American mascots.
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Nina M. Versaggi, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Cultural resource management archaeologists don't choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
