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This small exhibition of photographs by Lorraine Turci takes us straight to Japan's northernmost island to discover the Ainu, ...

Alex Strand is currently a student in David Massell’s North American Indian History class. She began reporting for this piece ...

Multiply divided opinion, but does it really add up to end the scheme while so many still struggle with maths?

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I just rewatched this scene, so I remember it well. This genre is called Shima-uta. It’s an Amami Shoto song, from the ...

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A Pokémon is more than its first impression, as fans quickly learn when they dig in deep to a Fire-type Pokémon's origins.

Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions ...

Native Americans and other indigenous peoples saw the world as sacred and spiritual, pervaded with a spiritual force. This ...

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