Wilma Mankiller to be Featured on U.S. Quarter Coin
WASHINGTON — The United States Mint has chosen Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, to be honored during the first year of American Women Quarters Program. The program begins in 2022.
“The American Women Quarters Program will feature coins with reverse (tails) designs emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of prominent American women. Contributions may come from a wide spectrum of fields including, but not limited to, suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts.” according to a United States Mint press release.
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A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment
MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them.
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Los Alamos lab aids efforts to reduce plastic pollution
Plastic is everywhere, and hardly anyone can get through a day without using it.
Mass-produced and mass-consumed, plastics generate mountains of trash in landfills, littering public areas and fouling the ocean — partly because much of it isn’t practical to recycle.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is part of a consortium developing a technology to rapidly break down discarded plastic at the molecular level into components that can be used to create other materials, such as nylon.
The year-old research and development effort has been dubbed BOTTLE. The program was launched in November.
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1,000-foot multi-rotor floating Windcatchers to power 80,000 homes each
https://newatlas.com/energy/wind-catching-systems-multirotor-turbine/
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How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature
In 1908 the U.S. government seized some 18,000 acres of land from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to create the National Bison Range in the heart of their reservation in the mountain-ringed Mission Valley of western Montana
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Native Americans critique data, surveys following election
“Native Americans make up less than 2% of the U.S. population and often are listed in datasets as “other” or denoted with an asterisk. Even when surveyed, the results can be considered statistically insignificant because the sample size isn’t large enough or the margin of error is too great to accurately reflect the population.”
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'Cultural Conversation' Tells Tales Of Native Ancestors
Aaron Jones will modestly tell you he's just the host when the Museum of Native American History presents "A Rare Cultural Conversation: Honoring Ancestors: Red Cloud to Red Otter" at 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Navajo artist Emma Robbins is bringing tap water and solar power to hundreds of homes that never had it before
If young Emma Robbins ever got thirsty while visiting her grandparents, she drank soda from a can — the syrupy sweet kind that was off-limits back home at her parents' house, where water flowed freely from the faucet.
"Some of the first Navajo words that I learned was how to say, 'Can I have a pop?'" she said, remembering how "exciting" it felt to ask her grandma for a drink in that way. "It was something that my grandparents always had. I think it was because it's like, 'if you want a beverage, that's what you're going to drink, because you're conserving water.'"
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Hillel Echo-Hawk: 'If You Take Over A People’s Food, You Take Over The People'
How this cook uses Native cooking and culture to challenge long-standing beliefs about food.
By Kai Oliver-Kurtin
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Inspiring Native American figures in NASA
Aside from known inspirations, like John Herrington and Mary Goulda Ross, there are others making a difference in the space industry.
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Supreme Court Rules That About Half Of Oklahoma Is Native American Land
“The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within a Native American reservation, a decision that will have major consequences for both past and future criminal and civil cases.”
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'Devastating': The Census Bureau Is About To Severely Undercount Tribes
The agency is ending the 2020 census early. Tribal communities will be skipped over, leaving them poorer and politically weakened.
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First Indigenous astronaut wants us to unplug, connect with nature
John Herrington, the first indigenous astronaut, encourages others to get out and experience the beauty of Earth.
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Ozarks at Large for Monday, September 21, 2020
“On today's show, the first day of KUAF's fall on-air fundraiser, we hear about a new data brief that shows the number of Arkansans receiving opioid prescriptions is decreasing while the number of individuals receiving prescriptions for the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone is increasing. Plus, we speak with John Herrington, the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. And, we head to the Pryor Center archives for a look back at John L. Ferguson's career as the state historian.”
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John Herrington; NASA Astronaut on Space, Native American Heritage, the US Wilderness and Inspiring the Next Generation
In this podcast, John Herrington discusses Space, NASA, the United States Wilderness, and Inspiring the next generation. He’ll inspire you to fulfill your own adventures!
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