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  • July 2008

    • A Weekend for 2 Nations to Celebrate

      New York Times  |  Jul 3, 08 7:39 AM CDT

      A Weekend for 2 Nations to Celebrate

      (Newser) - Tomorrow is Independence Day, but north of the border today marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, the first settlement of New France and one of the oldest cities in Canada. David Hackett Fischer, a historian writing in the New York Times , uses the occasion to explore a different vision of North America, one predicated not on freedom, but on diversity and exchange. More »

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      Canada  • history  • independence  • Native Americans  • Thomas Jefferson  • Quebec  • Samuel de Champlain

  • June 2008

    • Fuel Costs Squeeze Services for Native American Tribes

      Reznet News  |  Jun 17, 08 2:26 AM CDT

      Fuel Costs Squeeze Services for Native American Tribes

      (Newser) - Higher gas prices are forcing Native American tribal governments to cut back on transportation services, reports Reznet News. The Rosebud Sioux tribe provides its police, education and social services departments with transportation, as well as rides for the elderly and trips to medical appointments. But with coffers running on empty, the South Dakota tribe is changing its driving practices, reallocating funding—and may be forced to shelve programs entirely. More »

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      gas prices  • Arizona  • New Mexico  • Montana  • transportation  • South Dakota  • Native Americans  • tribes

    • Feds May Return Badlands to Sioux

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 8, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Feds May Return Badlands to Sioux

      (Newser) - The National Park Service might return half of South Dakota's Badlands National Park to the Oglala Sioux, reports the LA Times, some 6 decades after the US military ousted 800 members from the territory during World War II. The measure still needs Congressional approval, and tribal members remain unsure whether they want to build homes or keep the land as a nature preserve. More »

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      national park  • South Dakota  • Native American  • Native Americans  • National Park Service  • Indian Tribes

    • At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      Weekly Standard  |  Jun 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      At Chicago's Field, 'Ancient Americas' Exhibit a Bust

      (Newser) - Revisiting Chicago’s Field Museum—an institution enshrined in loving childhood memories—for its “The Ancient Americas” exhibit is a sore disappointment, PJ O’Rourke writes in the Weekly Standard . Once a bastion of public scholarship so solemn it contained a section devoted to useful varieties of wood, the Field now panders unabashedly to the most intellectually lazy, politically correct misconceptions of the lives of the original Americans. More »

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      America  • museum  • Native Americans  • Aztecs  • P.J. O'Rourke  • Field Museum  • Christopher Columbus  • political correctness  • Incas

  • March 2008

    • Medal of Honor for Sioux Warrior

      CNN  |  Mar 4, 08 6:32 AM CST

      Medal of Honor for Sioux Warrior

      (Newser) - The first full-blooded Sioux to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded his medal 26 years after his death at a moving ceremony at the White House yesterday, reports CNN. President Bush presented the medal to family members of Army Master Sgt. Woodrow "Woody" Keeble, whose courage in World War II and Korea already earned him two Purple Hearts and a Silver and Bronze Star. More »

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      US Army  • World War II  • Korean War  • Native Americans  • Medal of Honor  • heroism  • Silver Star  • Purple Heart  • courage

  • January 2008

    • Elmer Fudd, Have You Tried the Raccoon?

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jan 19, 08 2:54 PM CST

      Elmer Fudd, Have You Tried the Raccoon?

      (Newser) - Sweet raccoon meat is in vogue in the nation’s heartland, where the masked critters have been selling as fast as some hunters can snag them, the Chicago Tribune says. One Illinois dealer says he’s sold about 2,500 to more than 50 customers in the last 10 weeks. “You have to overcome certain inhibitions,” said one racoon-eater. “But when it’s prepared right, raccoon is really good.” More »

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      Chicago  • Wisconsin  • Missouri  • hunting  • Native Americans  • barbecue  • raccoons

    • Columbus Gave Europe Syphilis

      LiveScience  |  Jan 15, 08 4:07 PM CST

      Columbus Gave Europe Syphilis

      (Newser) - New genetic evidence gives Christopher Columbus credit for bringing back a different sort of bounty from the New World—the scourge of syphilis. Columbus and his crew returned home with a sexually transmitted form of a disease native to South America, say Emory University researchers. Soon after, the first known syphilis epidemic ravaged Europe, LiveScience reports. More »

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      STD  • Native Americans  • syphilis  • Emory University  • Columbus

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