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‘War Against the Children’

Zach Levitt, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Simon Romero and Tim Wallace New York Times
The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives.

This Week in People’s History, Aug. 28 – Sept. 5

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Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans wading through waist-deep floodwater Deadly weather in 2005. KKK run out of town in 1923. FBI informers mess up in 1973. The telephone industry discovers women workers in 1878. TV news is ready for prime time in 1963. Frederick Douglass frees himself in 1838. Ethnic cleansing in 1838.

This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .

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President Reagan giving a speech about smuggling arms to the Contras CIA impunity in 1988. U.S. imperialism's baby steps in 1898. Free speech for Nazis in 1978. U.S. responsibility for Vietnam War in 1971. Smallpox-infected presents in 1763. Voting wrongs, not rights, in 2013. Haymarket prisoners pardoned in 1893.

Friday Nite Videos | June 16, 2023

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DeSantis and Trump Among the Disciples. "We Built This" - Black-ish Season 4 Premiere. Big Win for Tribal Sovereignty in the Supreme Court. School Board President Destroys Homophobic Protestors. Why Disney World Is in Florida.

Major SCOTUS Victory for Native American Rights

Kolby KickingWoman ICT
“We won on every single issue and [the petitioners' law firm] is not taking home anything. They're not winning on a 10th amendment issue. They're not winning on Indian as a race-based classification. They're not winning on anything."

This Week in People’s History, May 30 . . .

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In a non-union textile mill, a union organizer leads workers in a protest. Union organizer fired for insubordination. In 1779, no peace for Native Americans. Sojourner Truth takes her new name. Child labor on the rise. "No nukes" on Long Island. Boston says NO! to slave-catchers. Anti-slavery novel is a best-seller.
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