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Veronica Penney Salgado takes a family photo with all her 18 grandchildren on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation (no easy feat we're sure -- well done!)

The 'bison skull mountain' photo that reveals the US's dark history

by Lucy Sherriff, journalist

...Two men in black suits and bowler hats pose with a gravity-defying mound of bison skulls. The 19th-Century image is disturbing – thousands upon thousands of skulls piled in neat rows, towering towards the sky.

But beneath the macabre first impression, the photo holds a darker secret still. These skulls aren't just the product of overzealous hunting in the US – and those men aren't hunters, either.

The skulls, experts say, are the evidence of an organised, carefully calculated campaign to eradicate the bison, deprive Native Americans of a vital resource, and drive the few communities that survived onto small reservations where they could be controlled by the newly arrived white settlers...

SOURCE and full story: bbc.com

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The U.S. gets a new national marine sanctuary, the first led by a tribe

The waters off Central California are now part of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, the result of a decades-long campaign by local indigenous leaders.

More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the Central California coast. The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S.

The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous people. It was nominated by members of the Northern Chumash Tribe, who drove the effort for more than decade to protect the rugged coastline that is their historical homeland...

SOURCE (full story): NPR.org

WHEN, WHERE & HOW DID THE TERM "NATIVE AMERICAN" ORIGINATE?

4th of July Independence Day first-person historical essay from Southern California tribal elder Ernie C. Salgado Jr. (Soboba band):

I want to share the truth on how the phrase or expression “Native American” was coined by a handful of California Tribal Leaders in 1975 as a commendation for the U.S. Bicentennial 1776-1976 celebration....

How do I know this to be true?

Because I was there....

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