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Month: November 2022

Harvard museum will return Native American hair samples, apologizes for ‘complicity’ in objectification of Native peoples

By Rob Frehse, CNN A Harvard University museum apologized Thursday for its “complicity” in the objectification of Native peoples and will return hair clippings of about 700 Native American children who were forced to attend United States boarding schools in the 1930’s. “The Peabody Museum apologizes to Indigenous families and tribal nations for our complicity

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Voters in four states approve effort to wipe slavery and indentured servitude off the books

By Shawna Mizelle and Sonnet Swire, CNN Voters in five states on Tuesday were asked whether to update their states’ constitutions to remove slavery and indentured servitude as potential punishments. Although the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibited slavery in 1865, it allowed an exception “for crime whereof the party shall have been duly

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