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Kamala Harris ancestral village in India marks inauguration day with candy, firecrackers and prayers By Arshad R. Zargar Kamala Harris on the job ahead New Delhi None of Kamala Harris relatives still live in her ancestral village in southern India, but that didn t dampen the festive mood there on Wednesday as she prepared to take the oath as the first South Asian Vice President of the United States. Harris will also be the first woman to hold the office, and the first Black American Vice President her father was born in Jamaica. Thulasendrapuram is a small, lush green village in India s Tamil Nadu state, about 190 miles south of Chennai one of India s four big metropolises. It s the village where Harris maternal grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, lived for a long time before moving to Chennai, where Shyamala Gopalan, Harris mother was born in 1938. ....
Jan 13, 2021 The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma announced a new challenge that will commemorate the 190th anniversary of the Trail of Tears and the Chahta Nowvt Aya (Choctaw Journey) beginning Jan. 18 and ending April 12. âCommemorating the trail of tears is one of the most important things that we can do to remember the sacrifices our ancestors made,â said Choctaw Nation Chief Gary Batton. âThis year we challenge you to make a trail of tears journey that will take you virtually through the path that our ancestors took from Nanih Waiya in Mississippi to the new Nanih Waiya in Oklahoma.â In the Choctaw language, Nanih Waiya means âmother moundâ which is an ancient platform mound earthwork located in southern Winston County, Mississippi. According to Batton, soon after arriving in Indian territory, the Choctaw government was reestablished, and the constitution of the Choctaw Nation was passed in 1834. A new council house was then built at the ne ....
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Why Auckland s beaches are unswimmable every time it rains, and what s being done to turn it around 9 Jan, 2021 06:02 AM 8 minutes to read Home and hosed: Auckland water rules relaxed just in time for summer. Video / Will Trafford Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz Ngarimu Blair has never swum in the waters of Ōkahu Bay, the ancestral waters of his hapū, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei. It s not because he doesn t want to, but because of an intergenerational fear of getting violently ill. Blair grew up with stories like that of his great grandfather who returned home from World War I to find his debt repaid with a pipe pumping raw sewage and hospital waste into their treasured place of recreation and kaimoana. ....