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When it comes to memorialization, nothing beats a martyr even when your culture has done the martyring. So it has seemed, anyway, in a nation where no fewer than twenty-six states along with countless towns, sports teams, summer camps, and recreational vehicles bear names meant to evoke those humans who came before. Between 1492 and the American Revolution, this continent’s indigenous populace declined from an estimated ten million to a tenth of that. One of the genocide’s lesser-known effects was linguistic. Perhaps a quarter of the earth’s languages in the fifteenth century, linguists say, were American. Lost to us now are millions of words, in thousands of tongues, that Natives used to describe the grasslands and gullies and peaks of the lands that they inhabited. And yet many settlers were keen on borrowing these words, even as they killed the people who coined them. Hundreds of proper names and place-words, or misconstruals thereof, were placed
Meet Captain StarEagle: Space Force Swears In 1st Female Native American Intel Officer
U.S. Space Force Capt. Haida StarEagle becomes emotional as her father Chief Samuel Little Fox, shaman of the Matinecock Tribe and all 13 tribes on Long Island, pins on her new occupational badge during her induction to the United States Space Force at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 12, 2021. (U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Chandler Baker)
1 Apr 2021
Space Force just welcomed its first female Native American intelligence officer.
Capt. Haida StarEagle, a 17-year-veteran of the Air Force, transferred into the fledgling service earlier this month, according to a news release. She hails from the 36th Intelligence Squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, where she served as a flight commander of training. She will remain with the 36th until her new duty title and station are approved, the release states.
Hiking in Long Island: 8 Bucketlist Trails to Check Out in 2021
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Hiking in Long Island: 8 Bucketlist Trails to Check Out in 2021
Long Island is a place of extremes. Separated from the hubbub of Manhattan by the mouth of the Hudson River, this large island juts out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Venture out and you’ll discover a world of sandy barrier islands, dramatic coastlines, marshes, and remote peninsulas. Long Island boasts a fair few preserves, state forests, and parks too, which make the whole island a true delight for hikers.