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U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, introduced the Native Histories and Cultures Education Act legislation to improve public education and understanding about Native American peoples and their histories. The legislation aims to correct an ongoing problem of the lack of accurate Native American history being taught in the public education system throughout the United States. Unfortunately, the education most students receive regarding Native histories and cultures is woefully inadequate.

PLYMOUTH, US: In the fall of 1621, a handful of English pilgrims and Native Americans shared their first Thanksgiving in the settlement of Plymouth.Four centuries later, their respective descendants commemorated the legendary gathering in markedly different ways: while the pilgrims' successors donned costumes for a re-enactment, the remaining members of...