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indigenous people

First inhabitants of an area and their descendants

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Nov 28, 2025
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Child sacrifice infirst nations?

Archaeological and historical evidence shows that child sacrifice occurred in parts of the pre‑Columbian Americas—notably in Andean Inca rituals (capacocha) and in some Mesoamerican contexts such as o...

Nov 26, 2025
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Do Native American communities generally view non-Native children wearing feather headdresses as disrespectful or educational?

Native voices and academic reporting in the provided sources overwhelmingly describe full-feathered Plains warbonnets as sacred, earned regalia that many Native Americans find disrespectful when worn ...

Oct 4, 2025
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What were the main causes of the War of 1812?

The War of 1812 resulted from a rather than a single cause: American protests against British maritime policies including impressment and trade restrictions, British backing of Indigenous resistance o...

Jan 24, 2026

Is green eyes a sign of a person being of white race?

Green eyes are an uncommon eye color caused by particular combinations of pigmentation and light-scattering, and while they are more frequent in some an populations, they are not a reliable indicator ...

Jan 20, 2026

What comparable artifacts have been studied that shed light on the Buga Sphere's origin?

A range of historical and modern objects — from confirmed ancient technologies like the Antikythera mechanism and Baghdad Battery to reported spherical UFO cases and local folklore — have been invoked...

Dec 11, 2025

Which groups (indigenous peoples, migrants, businesses) are most affected by bill c-8?

Bill C-8 appears in two distinct incarnations in the provided sources: as a citizenship-oath amendment responding to TRC Call to Action 94 (affecting newcomers and Indigenous reconciliation) and separ...

Oct 29, 2025

Can the Canadian government make decisions without the monarch's approval?

The short answer is: , because constitutional powers are exercised domestically by the Governor General and provincial lieutenant governors acting on ministerial advice. The monarch’s role is largely ...

Feb 6, 2026

What is the conservation status of the Vancouver Coastal sea wolf and recent scientific findings about it?

The sea wolf (also called the Vancouver Island or coastal wolf, Canis lupus crassodon) is a distinctive coastal ecotype or subspecies of adapted to a marine-influenced diet and island‑hopping life; it...

Feb 5, 2026

What legal challenges have been filed against the One Canadian Economy Act and its fast-tracking provisions?

(Bill C-5) has already prompted litigation: at least nine have launched a court challenge contesting the law and Ontario’s companion Bill 5, while legal groups and commentators warn of additional cons...

Jan 17, 2026

What governance, ethical and technical debates surround proposed solar geoengineering research?

Solar geoengineering research provokes fraught governance, ethical and technical debates because it promises rapid temperature reduction while carrying uncertain physical impacts, uneven regional effe...

Jan 10, 2026

pumpkin

Pumpkin is a North American domesticated winter squash with a deep archaeological record and a tangled global cultural life: it was cultivated by Indigenous peoples millennia ago and later absorbed in...

Nov 30, 2025

Did the lidar teams searching for bodies in residential schools scan the foundation

Available sources in the provided set do not mention teams using lidar to search for bodies in residential schools, nor do they describe whether any such teams scanned foundations or subsurface areas ...