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NATIVE AMERICANS

Ashleigh Surma (second from right) assists Elva Case (left), Linda Lupe (second from left) and Joycelene Johnson in recording indigenous languages during the ICILDER 2023 Conference in Bloomington, Indiana
WORLD / Society
Oct 20, 2023
Tech breathes new life into endangered Native American languages
Of the more than 6,000 Indigenous languages recognized globally, nearly half of them are at risk of disappearing.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
May 11, 2023
The land beneath this stadium once was theirs. They want it back.
As so-called land-back movements have gained momentum, three Los Angeles families have been working to define what reparations mean for them and how to get them.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 27, 2022
Joe Biden wants ‘conversation’ on Atlanta Braves’ name
While some U.S. sports teams have recently changed their names from longtime monikers that referred to Native Americans, the Braves have so far resisted from doing so.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2020
Tribe’s climate change plight highlights challenge for Native Americans
For several years, Fawn Sharp has seen her tribe on the coastline of Washington state lurch from crisis to crisis: rising sea levels have flooded the Quinault Indian Nation’s main village, and its staple sockeye salmon in nearby rivers have all but disappeared — a direct hit to the tribe’s finances and culture.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 11, 2019
In first, Native American tribe displaced by sea gets land to relocate
A small Native American tribe in Louisiana whose land has nearly vanished into the sea has moved a step closer to relocating its community further inland after authorities acquired new land for the move, part of a first-of-its-kind project.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 1, 2019
Firebrand Elizabeth Warren takes step to challenge Trump in 2020 in potential crowded Democratic field
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a liberal firebrand who has taken on Wall Street and traded barbs with Donald Trump, on Monday became the most prominent Democrat to announce a challenge to the Republican president in 2020.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 13, 2018
American Indians fear U.S.-Mexico border wall will destroy ancient culture
To the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indians, the water of the Rio Grande that divides the United States and Mexico sanctifies religious rites and purifies their hunts.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2017
Japanese researcher focuses on U.S. minorities, without reservation
A Japanese researcher whose worldview was shaped by a transcontinental journey in his youth has spent years chronicling the lives of Native Americans and other minorities in the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2017
Holdout Dakota pipeline protesters face police as deadline passes
Several dozen demonstrators, the last holdouts from a mass protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, faced off against riot police on Wednesday as they defied a deadline to end their months-long occupation of an encampment on federal land.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 23, 2016
Trump pitches jobs to blue-collar Ohio, oil pipeline across sacred lands, coal industry revival
Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 3, 2015
Obama visits Alaska fishing town fighting proposed mine, has sockeye moment
President Barack Obama headed to remote fly-in native villages of Alaska on Wednesday on a trek the White House hopes will bring attention to how climate change is affecting Americans.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2014
The government decides 'Redskins' bothers you
Some Americans who are paying attention to the absence of Native American revulsion over the name 'Washington Redskins' are not comfortable with the government saying, in effect, that if people are not offended, they should be.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on