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American Indian heritage with identity (race), attachment (linked fate), primary identity with tribe/U.S./American Indians, group consciousness (perceptions of discrimination and need for collective action), growing up on the reservation, language and lineage (number of American Indian grandparents)....
Why is Indian Ocean named after India? Why is the Indus River Valley civilization called Harappan? Why is the Middle East called the Middle East? Why is the East India Company named what it is? Why is it called Mount Everest? Why are the Indigenous people o...
American Indian MascotsNative American MascotsracismNCAAOf the many civil rights and social justice issues that continue to cloud United States race relations, one persists in dividing parties: the use of American Indian mascots and imagery by collegiate and professional athletic teams. Scholars and ...
In 1917, Mahatma Gandhi, one of the leading icons of the Indian nationalist movement,started a political protestin the village of Champaran in what is today the eastern state of Bihar. The movement was on behalf of poor farmers who had been forced to grow indigo used in the making of dyes...
when an American company executive contacted his agent and wanted to understand what place Sachin held in Indian culture, the agent didn't quote the number of Test wins, or international centuries. He said, simply, that Sachin endorsed Audemars Piguet watches, and that the company made a model...
"They thought they were part of the mainstream until this 'Chinese virus' stuff," Karp, who is Indian American, said of his AAPI clients. "Now there's a building resentment that people have, and they aren't taking it anymore."
The problem isn’t just a lack of toilets—it’s a lack of toilets that people want to use. The result: millions of deaths and disease-stunted lives.
At a 1977 United Nations conference in Geneva, Indigenous delegates from around the world resolved “to observe October 12, the day of so-called ‘discovery’ of America, as an International Day of Solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.” It would be longer before their ...
At the start of the year, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on members and their families in southern Lebanon, where fighting with Israeli forces across the border has raged, to dump their cellphones, believing Israel could track the movement of the Iran-backed terror net...