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Denmark's PM Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign
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In Norway's far north, members of the Sámi minority and environmental activists are trying to block the construction of a copper mine
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Christian missionaries are using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples
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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
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Welcome to the Great Bear Sea: After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska
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The history of SPAM
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Festival goers north of the Arctic circle in Finland have been treated to a line-up of rap artists – including Indigenous artists performing in their native language, Sámi
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Why forty-two languages have the same word for "pineapple"
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Collaborating with Indigenous artists and sampling melting glaciers, the dance duo Bicep are championing Arctic culture – and documenting a collapsing world
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How a controversial Danish ‘parenting test’ separated a Greenlandic woman from her children
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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Sámi introduce certification to promote ethical tourism in Finland – Responsible Sámi Tourism Certificate will recognise tourism businesses whose operations align with Sámi values
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
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A new wave of positive-impact experiences in northern Finland is finally allowing the Sámi to benefit from the tourism boom
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The hidden history of hand talk
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Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship
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David Ingram and the Lost Cities of Native North America
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Looking for a visualization of North American political boundaries over time
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or...
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
- Indigenous lands (specifically how the boundaries of traditional/ancestral lands evolved into modern-day reservations)
- European claims like those of Britain, France, and Spain
- What was considered US/Canada/Mexico territory vs. no man's land or frontier at different points in time, from the governance standpoint of each of those nations
- Large and rapid settling movements like the Mormons into Utah, Oklahoma land rush, California gold rush, etc.
- Other factors like homesteading programs (I don't know much about this) and the transcontinental railroad, confederacy borders, trail of tears, etc.
- Notable battles/massacres marking bloody land disputes
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
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Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island
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Reel Injun | Native Americans portrayal in Hollywood
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Navajo code talker who helped allies win World War II dies aged 107
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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Native American tribes celebrate the end of the largest dam removal project in US history
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National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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The new Māori Queen: Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, 27, to succeed her father Kiingi Tuheitia as Māori monarch
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
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Choctaw Nation unveils 'eternal' sculpture dedicated to Ireland
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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer – will pen a manuscript that won't be published until 2114
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How 'Reservation Dogs' sparked a Native filmmaking boom in Tulsa
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Set in an otherworldly landscape surrounded by glaciers, forests and lakes – how the Arctic town of Bodø became Europe's Capital of Culture
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12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world
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A family who profited from pretending to be indigenous gets exposed in Canada
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Sámi artist Tomas Colbengtson is the latest recipient of The Queen Sonja Print Award, the world's most important prize for printmaking
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Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this.
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Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement with state of Arizona. It now goes to US Congress.
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The Sámi museum Siida in Finland was awarded the top prize at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards
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First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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US state North Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee nation store
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The great Serengeti land grab
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Inuuteq Storch – who is the first Kaalaleq/Inuit artist to have a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale – aims to capture ‘the Greenlandic everyday’
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Rio Grande Valley organizations suing Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to protect sacred tribal land from Elon Musk's SpaceX
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Navajo Quilt Project co-founder wins national arts fellowship
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Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
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Reindeer skins and sonic looms – Borealis music festival dives into Sámi culture in the Norwegian city of Bergen
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The lone prospectors keeping the legacy of the gold rush alive
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Vancouver’s new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous
49 votes