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“Unlike some other institutions across the country, Utah public colleges and universities do not consider an applicant’s race or ethnicity when making admissions decisions," said a Utah System of Higher Ed spokesperson.
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Native American nations say the Supreme Court has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from states.
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“They had the ability to take away our children, again, from our people. And they did the right thing,” said Darren Parry, former chairman of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation.
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The court left in place the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which was enacted to address concerns that Native children were being separated from their families and, too frequently, placed in non-Native homes.
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For Thom Reed, program manager at Family Search International, Juneteenth is a good time for those who want to know more about their ancestry to learn it and share it with their families.
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The blessing and planting of seeds is a yearly ceremony at Wasatch Community Gardens. It’s centered around culturally significant growing practices of people from Latin America.
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According to the Utah Department of Public Safety, religious hate crimes have risen by more than 60% since 2021.
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The project, called Natives Engaged in Alzheimer's Research, is an ongoing effort focusing on not only including communities left out of research, but collecting data in Native languages.
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Members of a small tribe in Arizona are marking the renaming of a popular campground in Grand Canyon National Park as Havasupai Gardens. The Havasupai Tribe had lobbied the federal government for years to change the name from Indian Garden.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act by July.
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A gathering of Topaz camp survivors and descendants have come to the Utah desert to remember James Wakasa and the 140 other Japanese Americans who died here.
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Eighty years ago, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was killed in a Japanese American internment camp in Utah. His story is one piece of Utah’s history with internment.