Posts tagged Indigenous beliefs
Apology From US Catholic Bishops Falls Short For Traumatized Indigenous Families

(OPINION) On June 14, U.S. Catholic bishops apologized for the mistreatment and trauma caused through the church’s role in American Indian boarding schools. While the apology is all well and good, it is very little and very late for thousands of Indigenous families in America.  

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How Indigenous Peoples Are Reclaiming The Summer Solstice

(ANALYSIS) As a historian of astronomy, I am interested in the role astronomical events had on ancient people and continue to have in modern times. My ancestors lived on the Central Mexican Plateau, where for many Indigenous cultures, both past and present, the rising and setting of the Sun during equinoxes and solstices were sacred events.

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