Search results for native american occupation
New animated films challenge false representation of Native Americans in the media
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Popular film and television shows have shaped the way Americans view American history - especially the frontier encounters between settlers and Native Americans. Examining the ways Native Americans are portrayed negatively ...
Colonial heritage metaphors used in US military conflicts
Jul 25, 2008 |
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The historical reference to "Indian Country" presents a complex metaphor. For many Native Americans it signifies home, family, and territory; however, for others the term can refer to colonialism and Native American land ...
First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published online on January 8th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Who influences purchases of native plants?
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Native plants are a growing niche market in the southeastern United States. Researchers have documented recent trends toward increased interest in native plants by landscape architects, wholesale and retail ...
Report finds troubling health trends in California's Asian, Pacific communities
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report by UCLA researchers reveals higher-than-average rates of cancer, childhood obesity and diabetes, and an alarmingly high population of the uninsured, among California's Asian American, Native ...
Whiskers hold secrets of invasive minks
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Details of the lifestyle of mink, which escaped from fur farms and now live wild in the UK, have been revealed through analysis of their whiskers. Research led by the University of Exeter reveals more about the diet of this ...
Mink control vital to save water voles
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping water vole and mink populations apart is vital if efforts to reintroduce water voles, one of Britain’s most endangered mammals, are to be successful.
Surviving the revolution, easier than withstanding human use and abuse
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Aug 11, 2008 |
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Inwood Hill Park survived the drastic modifications of Revolutionary War patriots, but preserving this last bastion of large-growth, mature trees in New York City is difficult with the proliferation of invasive species and ...
Saving the wild orchids of Borneo
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Borneo (Kalimantan) is the third largest island in the world. It is rich with a variety of indigenous orchid species that grow in the forests. Borneo's rain forests are also home to some extremely rare species of orchids, ...
Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group, DNA study confirms
Apr 29, 2009 |
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For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral ...
New clues to the Falklands wolf mystery
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has remained a mystery. Now, researchers ...
Immigrant Blacks More Likely to Attend Elite Colleges
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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A larger proportion of immigrant black high school graduates attend selective colleges and universities than both native black and white students in America, according to a study by sociologists at Johns Hopkins University ...
Insect release proposed to control exotic strawberry guava
May 22, 2008 |
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U.S. Forest Service scientists with the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry have submitted a proposal to release a Brazilian insect to control the spread of strawberry guava, a South American tree that has invaded and degraded ...
Chinese-American and Korean-American women at highest risk for diabetes in pregnancy
Dec 11, 2009 |
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More than 10 percent of women of Chinese and Korean heritage may be at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 16,000 women in Hawaii that appears in the December issue of ...
Professor says current meteor shower proves theory of calendar's origin
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stargazers are in for a unique treat tonight: the planet Earth will pass through the debris train of the Swift-Tuttle comet this evening which astronomers call the Perseid meteor shower. ...
