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Welcome November with Joy Harjo's "kitchen table poem."

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Native American Heritage Month

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What is Native American Heritage Month?
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“One Word Changed My Life”: Reviving Indigenous Language
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A Lost Generation: How One Artist Reconnects to Her Indigenous Heritage
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Bringing Back Indigenous Foods with Chef Sean Sherman
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A Brief History of Native American Land Loss in the United States

Land and Language

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How Indigenous Languages Were Lost
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From the Elgin Marbles to NAGPRA: What Is Repatriation?
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Joy Harjo Explains the Job of Poet Laureate
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How These Endangered Languages Are Fighting Back

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Did Rye Bread Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
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Why Did the T. rex Have Such Tiny Arms?
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Twelfth Night: Act 2, Scene 5
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Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 5
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Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 3
Stage scene with text: “Act 1, Scene 2—Twelfth Night: If music be the food of love.” The actor Khris Davis stands; cellist sits behind.
Twelfth Night: Act 1, Scene 2
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How Does Wastewater Treatment Actually Work?
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A Lost Generation: How One Artist Reconnects to Her Indigenous Heritage
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What Is African American English? Language, Memory, and Belonging
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The history of the haiku—and how to write one
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How was the television invented?
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What It's Like to Restore the World's Most Expensive Violins

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