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A U.S. territory’s colonial history emerges in disputes over voting and citizenship
A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright ...
A US territory’s colonial history emerges in state disputes over voting and citizenship
Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated ...
From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English
Paradegoers are seen March 4 in the French Quarter of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Though it was the dominant non-English ...
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‘It’s about control’: Why Trump changed Denali’s name to Mount McKinley
Stripping an Indigenous place name and imposing a new one on maps, atlases ... When the United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, Native language speakers outnumbered those who spoke ...
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Why stop at Gulf of Mexico? Our maps are full of foreign names and languages | Mark Woods
And that maps labeling ... Denali in Alaska. But that could be changing. The incoming president also has said he’s going to re-rename America’s tallest mountain, replacing its Native Alaskan ...
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How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture
They are leading organizations like First Languages AI Reality, IndigiGenius, Tech Natives and the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI to train Native American, Alaska Native and Native ...
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Map Shows Most Spoken Languages in Each State Besides English and Spanish
One of the hundreds of Indigenous languages of the U.S. is Aleut, most widely spoken in Alaska, excluding English ... according to native-languages.org. Another indigenous language is Dakota ...
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Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
The remarkably clear image on a 4×6-inch glass plate negative would join 7,000 other photo plates to make a zigzag summit-to-summit map of the ... rights with Alaska Native people of continental ...
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For nearly 150 years, Native children were sent to boarding schools. Here's what to know
President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday to American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native ... incorporating Native languages and cultures into curriculum, and mandating ...
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Alaska Airlines introduces innovative services and partnerships
This move not only expands their route map but also offers travelers more ... artist and naming its first aircraft in an Alaska Native language. This initiative not only celebrates cultural ...
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Native American children endured years of sexual abuse at boarding schools
Children were stripped of their names, their long hair was cut, and they were beaten for speaking their languages ... He was forbidden to use his Alaska Native name. From the time he was 8 ...
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Alaska Native languages at crucial juncture, biennial report says
The classroom is a microcosm of the change Twitchell and other members of the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council called for statewide: An Alaska committed to increasing the ...