At the Cherokee Heritage Center in Park Hill, Oklahoma, life-size sculptures depict the walk of the Cherokees along the Trail of Tears.
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Circe Sturm, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
They’re called ‘pretendians’ – people who long identified as white but are now claiming to be Native American. In the last US Census, the number of Native Americans almost doubled because of them.
In Ames, Iowa, a creek previously named after an offensive term for Native American women is now called Ioway Creek.
Sarah Dees
For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.”
Geo-location technology can be used to block online content within a specified area in the world, thereby allowing for differences in national laws.
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