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Nov 30, 2023 | 
msn.com | Jen Deerinwater
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Jen Deerinwater
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
eater.com | Jen Deerinwater
Listen to this articleIt’s difficult for me to celebrate food. When I think about my connection to food, many of my first thoughts are rooted in trauma. The constant societal pressure to be thin began a lifelong struggle with disordered eating at only 8 years old. I later developed severe chronic pain and autoimmune diseases with symptoms that are made worse by gluten, soy, and dairy. Being diagnosed as diabetic in my early 30s sent me into months of extreme food restrictions that left me ill.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Julia Conley |Jen Deerinwater |John Collins |George Yancy
Aboriginal groups mourned the proposal, which would have created an advisory body to advocate for them in government. ByJulia Conley, CommonDreamsPublishedOctober 15, 2023A YES Voice referendum campaign poster on the side of a road has the words "NO" sprayed across it, on September 23, 2023, in Tintenbar, Australia.James D.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Pauly Denetclaw |Sasha Abramsky |Jen Deerinwater |Desiree Kane
It was 2013 and Susan Masten was vice-chairperson of her nation, the Yurok Tribe of Northern California. The government shutdown was in its second week. During an interview at the time, Masten talked about how she would soon have to furlough an additional 74 of the tribe’s 310 employees (60 had already been sent home). One hundred college scholarships would go unpaid, and childcare would be suspended for 50 families. Yurok has around 4,000 citizens with half living in or around their homelands.
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Mary Annette Pember |Jen Deerinwater |Tyler Walicek |Maile Arvin
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the U.S. In Canada, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419. It took nearly 150 years, but Amos LaFromboise and Edward Upright will soon return home in the manner of chiefs, guided by their sovereign nations.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Chris Walker |Zane McNeill |Sharon Zhang |Jen Deerinwater
A new poll published this week demonstrates that a majority of Ohio residents support expanding abortion rights beyond the six-week ban that’s currently on the books, and will likely back a voter-led initiative that’s set to appear on the ballot.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Mary Hudetz |Jen Deerinwater |Tyler Walicek |Orisanmi Burton
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Two decades ago, an anthropology professor at the University of Utah asked the National Science Foundation to fund research on Native American ancestors to determine when the cultivations of crops like corn first became prevalent in their cultures.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Martin Donohoe |Jen Deerinwater |Zane McNeill
In the first year of abortion being nearly fully banned in Texas, infant mortality rose for the first time in seven years, nearly entirely undoing years of progress on infant mortality in a single year, new data shows. According to preliminary data obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services by CNN, infant mortality increased by 11.5 percent in 2022 over the previous year. Overall, about 2,200 infants died, an increase of 227 deaths from 2021.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Zane McNeill |Chris Walker |Jen Deerinwater
A hearing in a lawsuit over Texas’s abortion ban was put on pause on Wednesday after a woman who recounted her traumatic pregnancy and birth threw up during her heart-wrenching testimony. In a county courthouse in Austin, Texas, Samantha Casiano took the stand to describe how she was denied an abortion after learning that her baby had a fatal defect, forcing her to carry and give birth to a non-viable baby.
