Staff ReportsNovember 28, 2024
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The nation’s real first Thanksgiving took place near the Matanzas River in St. Augustine
Tag: Native Americans
Staff ReportsNovember 28, 2024
Associated PressFebruary 12, 2023
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Fights against the appropriation of tribal cultures and images have endured for decades.
Associated PressOctober 9, 2021
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"Today, we recognize Indigenous peoples’ resilience and strength."
Associated PressFebruary 4, 2021
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Local groups have long argued that the team’s chop tradition and even its name itself are derogatory to Native Americans.
Associated PressNovember 23, 2020
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Advocates for Indigenous education caution there’s still much to improve.
Staff ReportsNovember 22, 20187min346
It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our tables with stuffing and pumpkin pie the way most of us imagine the Pilgrims did at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. But there’s just one catch, according to archaeologists at the Florida Museum of Natural […]
Associated PressFebruary 20, 2017
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It was an ugly, highly personal presidential election. An unvarnished celebrity outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten laborer took on an intellectual member of the Washington establishment looking to extend a political dynasty in the White House. Andrew Jackson‘s triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams bears striking similarities to Donald Trump‘s victory […]
Guest AuthorNovember 26, 2015
3min207
For most Americans, food scarcity is when we wait till the last minute and the exact brand of low-fat, gluten-free, heart healthy, fair trade, organic, local, hand-crafted marshmallow is sold out, forcing us to ‘make do’ with an inferior sweet potato casserole topping. Though the grocery stores may temporarily run low on the must-have holiday […]
Guest AuthorNovember 26, 20153min245
For most Americans, food scarcity is when we wait until the last minute and the exact brand of low-fat, gluten-free, heart healthy, fair trade, organic, local, hand-crafted marshmallow is sold out, forcing us to “make do’” with an inferior sweet potato casserole topping. Though the grocery stores may temporarily run low on the must-have holiday […]
Melissa RossSeptember 3, 2015
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Amidst all the celebration and revelry of St. Augustine’s 450th commemorations this week, some are planning to protest the way the nation’s oldest city was founded. A coalition of Native American groups is calling for a boycott of the 450th, saying it “shamefully celebrates and honors the Doctrine of Discovery and Spain’s crimes against humanity.” The […]