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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 Second World War 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
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Northern Sámi, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer" – can it survive in a warmer world?
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Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
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Rivers reborn: Alewives continue to make a recovery in the Penobscot watershed in Maine
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s
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A professor claimed to be Native American. Did she know she wasn’t?
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The endangered languages of New York
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How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert
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A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled the incredible scam.
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
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Helping bison find their way home to tribal lands
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Sámi rights activists in Norway charged over protests against wind farm affecting reindeer herding
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The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him
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$100M will be left for Native Hawaiian causes from the estate of an heiress considered last princess
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US government court filing promises to spend $1 billion to help depleted salmon populations recover
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In northern Ontario, a dozen First Nations have been left struggling. A court’s attempt to enforce treaty promises could see them getting up to C$126bn.
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