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Did you know...

Baranof totem pole

• ... that the designer of the Baranof totem pole (pictured) did not mean to depict a naked Russian man?
• ... that Ángeles Romero Frizzi aimed for an Indigenous perspective in a history book about her own state, according to a reviewer?
• ... that the Native American Student and Community Center in Portland, Oregon, is designed to resemble a tipi?
• ... that Sweden's Truth Commission for the Sámi People leaves "reconciliation" out of its name, unlike similar inquiries in Norway and Finland?
• ... that speakers of the Jorá language were massacred, rounded up in villages, and sold into slavery during the 1940s?
• ... that the tomb of the Okinawan king Shishō is now on the grounds of an air force base?
• ... that the Dominican folktale of the ciguapa was propagandized by the Rafael Trujillo regime to promote race mixing?
• ... that Te Whare Tīwekaweka is the first album entirely in Māori to reach number one on the New Zealand album charts?
• ... that the first Inuktitut Bible translated by native speakers was produced by a cathedral dean, a former heavy-equipment operator, a future mayor, a future member of the Order of Canada, and a former oilfield worker?

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