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The Biden administration has ordered a 20-year ban on new oil and gas development around Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico, a landscape considered sacred to many tribes.
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Idaho Matters takes a look at the role hummingbirds have playing in our history, including their affect on the pre-Columbian Americas or even during World War II!
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Indigenous art is often only viewed as a historical work of the past, but that art and the Indigenous people who make it are still present today. One Cochiti Pueblo artist showcases that concept in his latest exhibit at the History Colorado Museum in Denver.
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Black Americans used the Green Book in the mid-1900s to find safe places to travel. Now an organization in the Mountain West is highlighting many of these locations.
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Idaho Matters takes a look at Chinese medicine and the influence its had on the United States over the last 200 years.
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The Idaho State Historical Society is looking for pictures of Boise's old State Penitentiary as part of a new project. Jacey Brain, Visitor Services Coordinator at the Idaho State Historical Society and Interim Historic Sites Administrator, Anthony Parry joins Idaho Matters to tell us more.
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If there’s one thing that trips up folks from outside Idaho, it’s our weird and wonderful place names. Counties, cities and rivers in Idaho can be hard to pronounce, if you don’t have a handy guide like this one.
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Is there anything more divisive between locals and transplants than place pronunciations? Let's face it: Idahoans are passionate about how to say the…
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"Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration" examines the continent’s fraught history of repression and resistance and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.
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Idaho Matters takes a look inside of Erma Hayman House, a 115 year old single family home that is being preserved as a cultural site in Downtown Boise.