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A Facebook Discussion Puts the Makah Whale Hunt on Trial

Originally posted on Memories of the People:
There are just a few days left to comment on granting permission to the Makah to resume their hunt of the gray whale.  Summary information is available here.   Written comment on the…

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On this date… January 9-10, 1879… Nebraska

Originally posted on Memories of the People:
On this date in 1879, in weather even colder than today’s, the long saga of Dull Knife’s (aka Morning Star) band of Cheyenne reached a climax. Three years earlier, in the aftermath of…

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On this date… Thanksgiving, 1621… Massachusetts

Originally posted on Memories of the People:
Here is the original account of the first Thanksgiving. But first, a little context.  The Pilgrims arrived the previous December, finally settling in the abandoned Indian village of Patuxet.  A year or two…

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Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

the oldest continuously inhabited place in the nation

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