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A peyote plant blooms while growing in the nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Texas December 28, 2024 5:56 pm

Peyote that grows naturally in South Texas and Mexico threatened

Peyote, a cactus that contains mescaline, a hallucinogen, grows naturally in South Texas and northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Indigenous people, playing a central role in their ceremonies, spiritual practice and medicine.

FILE – A building that formed part of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus is seen at U.S. Army’s Carlisle Barracks, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Carlisle, Pa.

Native Americans December 9, 2024 5:03 pm

Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school site in Pennsylvania to commemorate the resilience of tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and similar abusive institutions.

US President Joe Biden speaks at the Gila River Crossing School in the Gila River Indian Community, in Laveen Village, near Phoenix, Arizona on October 25, 2024. Biden apologized for one of the country’s “darkest chapters:” the abduction of Native American children from their families and placement in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture. The first public apology issued by a sitting US president. From the early 1800s until the 1970s, the US ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to forcibly assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including conversion to Christianity.

Native Americans October 25, 2024 2:48 pm

Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children

President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation.

Native Americans October 14, 2024 10:45 am

What is Indigenous Peoples Day? A day of celebration, protest and reclaiming history

Here is a look at why it’s called Indigenous Peoples Day, the history behind it and how people celebrate.

Native Americans

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