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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

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Farmers planted grains to make traditional dishes such as starchy, mild fufu and thick, warm tuo zaafi , and households stored surplus tubers in their wattle-and-daub homes to nourish them throughout the year. Logan, now a professor at Northwestern University, started working at Banda as a graduate student in 2007.

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Plants and People of Borneo: A Cultural and Ecological Connection

Anthropology.net

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Native American students have the least access to computer science

The Hechinger Report

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. Since 2020, Native student enrollment in computer science courses has declined at most two-year and four-year institutions, she said, even as more students overall have received degrees in the subject.

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Ancient Human Habitation: New Discoveries from East Timor’s Laili Rock Shelter

Anthropology.net

Southeast Asia’s Ancient Cultural Heritage Beyond East Timor and Sulawesi, Australia holds some of the oldest continuous cultural heritage sites globally, reflecting its Indigenous populations' long history. These carvings depict animals like the now-extinct nail-tailed wallabies and thylacines (Tasmanian tigers). 1 Shipton, C.,

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Migration is always more than just a transferit is a point of tension where preservation, power, and priorities intersect. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

And yet the immigrant experience is still an unusual one in Iowa — a state that holds enormous sway over the 2020 election but looks quite unlike the rest of the U.S. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Iowa is 18 percent whiter than the country as a whole. It’s easy.”.