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While creating Yellowstone, Yosemite and others, the U.S. government pushed tribes off their ancestral lands.

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The astronauts of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo formed a surprising connection between Panama’s Indigenous Emberá people who taught them jungle survival.

The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help ...