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Stevie Salas in “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World”

Stevie Salas on Native American Rockers

Arts

Guitarist and movie producer Stevie Salas shares the untold history of Native Americans in rock and roll.

Clovis points

How scientists are piecing together the story of ancient Americans

Science
The "Guilt-Free Zone," one of APTN's most popular programs, is set in a fictional speakeasy.

Native Americans don’t have their own TV channel. A Canadian network wants to change that.

Media
Princess Leia

The little-known link between Princess Leia’s iconic hairstyle and the Mexican Revolution

Culture
ETHEL

This is what a ‘musical selfie’ sounds like

Arts
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DNA

Modern-day tribes still carry traces of colonial devastation in their DNA

Health

European colonists to the Americas brought with them illnesses that devastated indigenous communities. New research explores this history in the genetic record.

Conflict

This Pittsburgh restaurant offers takeout and a side of politics

Conflict

Craving some Koobideh from Iran? Arepas from Venezuela? Head to Pittsburgh’s Conflict Kitchen, where a rotating menu features food from countries in conflict with the United States.

Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.

It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.

Environment

Clashes over an oil pipeline slated to cross historic Native territory in North Dakota continue after more the 140 people were arrested in protests last week. The increasingly high-stakes face-off is one of the biggest actions by Native Americans in years.

Police use pepper spray against protesters trying to cross a stream near an oil pipeline construction site near Standing Rock Indian Reservation, north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 2, 2016.

The United Nations heads to North Dakota to investigate possible human rights abuses

Conflict

Police have made mass arrests and used pepper spray, riot gear and armored vehicles to stop the protests. Now, the United Nations is looking into possible human rights abuses.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Sioux Nation, leads his people to peacefully pray near a law enforcement barricade just outside of a Dakota Access pipeline construction site north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on Oct. 29, 2016.

#NoDAPL has momentum, but will it drive Native Americans to vote?

Conflict

Sacred-site preservation and civic engagement are not the same.

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