Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a memo sent to tribes in the region in March, government administrators expressed concern but said they were unable to deny the permit request. A postcard from early to mid-20th century shows Hopi dancers in traditional regalia in front of Hopi House, a building in honor of Hopi connections to the Grand Canyon.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

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. There was nothing like this.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. He gives the same stock speech. Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. Small project, ‘global impact’.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He lives a two-and-a-half hour drive from the tribe’s reservation, which makes it hard for him to help his two young kids learn about their Native heritage. But he wasn’t having much success using traditional streaming video. How do you really connect with the land when you're looking at this flat screen and a little box in Zoom?”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Completing the MAHG program, she stepped down from her role as Dean so as to also teach courses in US history and government. “I

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 8, 2024

The Blackfoot Confederacy, steadfast guardians of their ancestral territories and water resources, has long navigated the complexities of protecting their cultural heritage amidst encroachments from modern society. 1 Rider, D.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Hall’s status meant that when she was earning her degrees, she didn’t qualify for financial assistance designed for Native students. That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Similar to many second-generation Chinese living in America, it’s been difficult for me to reconnect with my heritage. It is intended to be a trip that helps us find our roots and spurs us to treasure our heritage and culture. I’ve neglected my Chinese heritage and I will work to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board.

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Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. government supported organization founded to repatriate freeborn and formerly enslaved Black families and individuals.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

Other objects, including fragments of African ceramics and a cowrie shell, show the perseverance of cultural traditions among the enslaved workers. INTRODUCING ARCHAEOLOGY The São Tomé central government has no experience with archaeological research or sites. Ruins of a sugar mill do not fit the government’s notion of heritage.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

It’s still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. And so if you have an existing traditional public school and you lose a class of children, probably it’s not going to close the school, but it does create a financial challenge because you’re losing some of those dollars.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

PRESERVING TRADITIONS AMID COLONIALISM The team’s destination, Obishikokaang (Lac Seul), known as the place “where the white pines grow,” is the territory of the Anishinaabeg (called Ojibway by Outsiders who often label them as “hunter-gatherers”). Co-author Mike picked bitterroot for crafting traditional medicine in Lac Seul in 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

University officials are often ignorant of the particular needs and obligations of American Indian students, said Tadd Johnson, who directs a master’s program in tribal administration and governance at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. These young people may have spiritual and cultural commitments that regularly draw them away from campus.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. Featuring images of their namesake wind horses , lungta prayer flags are a significant symbol in Indigenous Bõn and Buddhist traditions. Affordability poses another challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

It’s knowledge about culture and history and traditions in language. In Oklahoma, which has the country’s third-largest Indigenous population, Hawk said the downgraded accreditation of two school districts — Tulsa and Mustang — accused of violating HB 1775, has essentially halted instruction on the state’s rich Indigenous heritage.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 26, 2023

The massive complex, rebuilt in the 1950s in the traditional Mongol style, houses genuine relics and is an important sanctuary for the shamanic worship of the legendary Mongol leader. However, it is unlikely that the Mongolian government would ever allow actual excavations to prove or disprove these theories.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. The five members of the school board who voted to ban the book did not have children in any public schools governed by the district. “I was actually at home. My superintendent forwarded it to me. for short).

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. military mission that drops toys and supplies throughout Micronesia. In December 2023, packages dropped by U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The schools remoteness on a 518-acre reservation the government forcibly relocated the Havasupai people to more than 150 years ago makes it a challenge to staff, and chronic turnover required the few educators who remained to teach multiple grades at once. threatening the governments long-established trust responsibility to tribal nations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

GEO International High School, with about 185 students, is connected to the Internationals Network for Public Schools in New York City; its schools have been more successful than traditional schools at educating new, and often traumatized, immigrants, and at boosting their emotional and social well-being, as well.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 22, 2025

Beyond bombings and other military activities, curfews and checkpoints have severely hindered the efforts of the West Banks Palestinian archaeologists, heritage organizations, and security personnel to access, monitor, and safeguard these vulnerable sites. Demand for valuable objects has long posed a threat to Palestines cultural heritage.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

I think states have now realized, ‘Oh, the federal government temporarily and now is considering again another increase in these tax credits — child tax credit, child and dependent care tax credit, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit]. To Chang, child care as an employee benefit could resemble health insurance — or become even more important.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I think states have now realized, ‘Oh, the federal government temporarily and now is considering again another increase in these tax credits — child tax credit, child and dependent care tax credit, the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit]. To Chang, child care as an employee benefit could resemble health insurance — or become even more important.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. Political scientist Barbara Walter tracks the phenomenon of rising anti-government violence in regions around the globe in her book How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Murphy, drawing from the district’s tradition of hosting naturalization ceremonies every three years, has contributed a curriculum covering the process by which immigrants become U.S. UNESCO is perhaps best known for its World Heritage Sites, but it is much more than that. In so doing, the former president has deprived U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Collectively, state and local governments spend far more on education than the federal government does. Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025 , created by the conservative Heritage Foundation, but that document also calls for reining in spending on school meals. A new home for the NAEP test is less obvious.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As the pandemic ravaged already beleaguered centers across the country, the federal government stepped in with $24 billion in aid. And once Joe Biden arrived in the White House, it seemed that the government might go even farther by making pandemic relief aid permanent. Vance is a vocal opponent of formal, publicly funded child care.

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