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Opinion: Sorry for Native Boarding Schools? Fund Indigenous Language Revitalization.

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October 23, 2021

Connor Yiamkis, a language educator and member of the Pit River tribe, is working to revitalize the Pit River language which the American government and churches tried to strip from his people during the Indian boarding school era. Citing research that language revitalization is centrally important to cultural expression, suicide prevention, and relationships with people and the land, Yiamkis argues that the American government should significantly increase funding for language revitalization.

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Opinion: Public Remembrances
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September 12, 2021

In this era of information silos and distrust of sources that seem to offer political views different from our own, the purpose of remembrance can also be to assert that events actually happened and that they were significant.

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Opinion: “Return of the Ancestors” Commemorates Pit River Survival During Forced Military Marches
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August 12, 2021

I feel like participating in this walk/run is an act of survivance . . . an expression of tribal sovereignty. When tribes come together and support each other, it builds community and capacity for a brighter future for our children.

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Opinion: The Inconvenience of Economic Equality
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July 15, 2021

Sociology forces us to examine poverty as a societal choice and not simply the moral failings of individuals.

Opinion: Healing the Hate Before it’s Too Late
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July 9, 2021

The basics of healing the harrowing hatred harming our nation are not difficult to describe, although actually implementing these steps will require a fundamental resetting of our collective orientation to one another and ourselves.

Opinion: Being Seen: Exploring Life’s Great Questions Through Poetry
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July 2, 2021

On August 6, local Indigenous youth will share their original works as part of the film, Being Seen: Native Youth on Identity, Culture, and Justice. The project was funded through a California Humanities Youth Voices grant.

Opinion: The Problem of Polarization
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June 21, 2021

"Whichever side we find ourselves on, our innate group identifications arise from the same place: “our intuitive binary instinct that allows us to classify others as ‘us’ or ‘them’ in a fraction of a second.”

Opinion: How We Got Here
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June 9, 2021

The real story is how we are ready to trust and follow our hot emotions rather than our cool intellect in our quest to find our core identity in our political tribe and defend it with our lives, if necessary, regardless of the cost.

Opinion: Why Don’t We Care about Care Work?
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May 31, 2021

Care work is infrastructure on par with highways, trains, and airports. And for too long, this essential public service has remained invisible, unvalued, and ignored — because it is largely done by women.

Opinion: In the End It Is the Questions that Will Save Us
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May 30, 2021

Powerful questions have been behind social innovations of all types: from Impossible Burgers to marriage equality. Below all such inquiry lies our grappling with the kind of society we want to have. Engaging in this process is fundamental to a functioning democracy.

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