Berkeley celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day with 27th annual powwow
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The city of Berkeley held its 27th annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Pow Wow celebration Saturday, with hundreds of people coming to join the festivities.
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Public education system must uphold comprehensive American history curriculum
When was it that we began to realize that Christopher Columbus was not a hero to everyone? Recently, my professor told us that her son, who goes to a public elementary school in Berkeley, learned in history class that Christopher Columbus actually hadn’t “discovered” America and that he had introduced
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Authority over dispossessed land must be returned to Native peoples
When we think of the Navajo, we think of the Red Rocks of the Arizona Desert. The Lakota — the wind-whipped, sprawling expanses of the Great Plains. And for the Ohlone? Concrete. The urban Indian landscape is far different than any other part of Indian Country. The West Berkeley Shellmound
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How to train a racist
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We spend 12+ years learning about how we owe every modern invention, from the ranked-choice voting system to the panini press, to white people.
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idk how 2 english
If you’re a Tumblr user, chances are you’ve seen a post similar to this one: As someone who has a sense of humor but also cares about the rules of language, I feel torn whenever I come across a post like this. Do I laugh at what I’m reading, or
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Indigenous Peoples Day celebrates 20th anniversary
The 20th anniversary of Berkeley’s Indigenous Peoples Day will be celebrated this Saturday in honor of Native Americans’ past suffering across the Americas and their cultural resurgence today.
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What is in a name?
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The second we said it aloud, we knew we were onto something epic. The scene: a living room in a post-apocalyptic state the morning after a party. The players: my housemates and me. The crime: naming our typically rundown student apartment and embarking on possibly the most ridiculous adventure we’ve
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