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The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
网页2020年5月18日 · Historians point to Christopher Gadsden — a slave-owning South Carolinian — as the namesake for the iconic yellow flag. Gadsden, a colonel in the Continental Army, is believed to have gifted ...
A reality check on Biden’s ‘30 by 30’ conservation plan
网页2021年6月23日 · A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed an executive order that announced his commitment to protecting 30% of U.S. land and water — over 720 million acres — by 2030. The move ...
Questions about the LandBack movement, answered
网页2022年8月22日 · LandBack is not a call for revenge. The white Westerner’s fear that the “other” will rob, dispossess, subjugate and otherwise violate them is a core fear of the colonial mindset, one that is ...
The Supreme Court’s attack on tribal sovereignty, explained
网页2022年7月1日 · As part of its recent precedent-breaking spree, the U.S. Supreme Court turned federal Indian law on its head this week on Wednesday, June 29. In the case of Oklahoma v.Castro-Huerta, a majority of ...
The "tough love' trial is over - High Country News
网页1996年11月25日 · The “tough love’ trial is over. After Arizona teenager Aaron Bacon died of perforated ulcers on a wilderness program for wayward teens two years ago, eight North Star employees were charged ...
The Navajo Nation has a wild horse problem - High Country News
网页2017年10月6日 · The population is exploding, but the tribe doesn’t have funding to manage it. Up to 40,000 wild horses wander the Navajo Nation, roaming across 27,000 miles of deep canyons, rugged hills and ...
Reckoning with History: The legacy of lynching in the West
网页2018年7月13日 · In his provocatively imagined and deeply researched visual history, “Lynching in the West: 1850-1935,” artist Ken Gonzales-Day compiled known lynchings in California from statehood until the ...
How, 150 years ago, the Homestead Act transformed the West
网页2012年12月9日 · This year marks the 150th anniversary of the fruit of Jefferson’s conviction — the 1862 Homestead Act. The federal law changed the West forever by providing a new start for urban emigrants ...
Trump’s impact on Indian Country over four years
网页2020年12月16日 · When President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, many tribal leaders took a wait-and-see approach, given his poor record on Indigenous affairs. Four years later, Indian Country has ...