Terri Crawford Hansen
Terri Crawford Hansen (born 1953) is a journalist who focuses primarily on environmental and scientific issues affecting North American tribal and worldwide indigenous communities. Hansen, an enrolled Native American citizen of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is a correspondent for '' YES! Magazine'' and ''Indian Country Today'', and contributes to ''Earth Island Journal'', ''Pacific Standard'', ''High Country News'', ''VICE News'', ''PBS'', ''BBC News'' and other news publications. Hansen maintains an online public service news project titled Mother Earth Journal'' Education and Honors Hansen attended Portland State University while employed at ''The Oregonian'', from which she retired in 1992. In 2014 she was selected a National Association of Science Writers Diverse Scholar Fellow. That same year she also was a Fellow of the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. She was a 2010 Climate Media Fellow of the Earth Journalism Network in which she reported the Sixteenth session of the Confe ...
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Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are, but many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. While some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions, the Indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies, and empires. Some had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by Indigenous peoples; some countries have ...
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