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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?
Willa Beatrice Player (August 9, 1909 – August 29, 2003) was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil-rights activist, and federal appointee. Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. From 1955 to 1966, Player served as president of the historically black college during a period of heightened civil-rights activism in the South. She supported Bennett students who took part in the lengthy sit-ins started by the Greensboro Four to achieve integration of lunch counters in downtown stores. After leaving the Bennett presidency, Player was appointed in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first female director of the Division of College Support in the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, serving in that role until 1986. This 1930 photograph of Player is from the archives of The Crisis.Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden
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