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A third day of war is underway as Israel responds to a shock assault by Hamas. Israeli media says greater than 700 Israelis have been killed, and others are being held captive in Gaza. Israel has in flip launched air strikes into Gaza, killing what authorities say is greater than 400 folks there.

Rockets are fired towards Israel from Gaza on Saturday.

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Rockets are fired towards Israel from Gaza on Saturday.

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• The Israeli navy mentioned Monday it is nonetheless battling Hamas militants in a number of Israeli residential communities, and that militants proceed to infiltrate from Gaza. NPR’s Daniel Estrin reports from Tel Aviv that police are establishing checkpoints throughout the nation, and lots of Israelis nonetheless do not know the standing of their family.
• Israel has been launching heavy air strikes on Gaza, hitting not less than 1,000 targets together with many mosques. Israel additionally minimize off the electrical energy provide to Gaza, and its principal hospital is operating low on provides.
• Many are questioning how Hamas pulled off such a big scale assault without any warning. That’s what NPR’s Greg Myre is asking attendees at a pre-planned convention of present and former nationwide safety officers. He tells Up First there’s discuss of what position Hamas’ principal patron, Iran, may need performed. 

A story of two holidays

Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to U.S. society within the face of generations of assimilation, discrimination and genocide. It shifts focus away from the federal holiday named after Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who’s credited with discovering the Americas — regardless of the devastating results that colonization had on the Indigenous individuals who already lived there.

• President Biden was the primary president to acknowledge the vacation in 2021. A rising variety of localities have come to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples’ Day in recent times: Ten states and greater than 100 cities formally have fun it.

Protesters marched in an Indigenous Peoples Day rally in Boston on Oct. 10, 2020, as a part of an indication to vary Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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Protesters marched in an Indigenous Peoples Day rally in Boston on Oct. 10, 2020, as a part of an indication to vary Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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There are not any set guidelines on tips on how to mark the day, although there are some really helpful actions. You can look up — and formally acknowledge — which Indigenous lands you are on, attend a group or digital occasion and help Indigenous causes, companies and authors.

Columbus Day continues to be a federal vacation and celebrated in lots of states — the explorer stays a major determine to many, particularly in the Italian American community.

Picture present

Professor emerita Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne), a pioneer in Native American research, acquired a National Humanities Medal from President Biden in 2021. The White House quotation honors Mann “for dedicating her life to strengthening and developing Native American education.”

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Professor emerita Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne), a pioneer in Native American research, acquired a National Humanities Medal from President Biden in 2021. The White House quotation honors Mann “for dedicating her life to strengthening and developing Native American education.”

Matika Wilbur

Photographer Matika Wilbur, of Swinomish and Tulalip descent, set out on a mission in 2012: for example Native Americans’ variety and complexity by photographing members of all of the then-562 federally-recognized U.S. tribes. More than 10 years , 600,000 miles and several other automobiles later, she has published her portraits and interviews in a book referred to as Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America — a piece she describes to NPR as one among “narrative correction.”

Recommended reads and listens

Contenders and My Powerful Hair are two latest kids’s books about Indigenous heritage.

Henry A. Abrams & Kokila

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Henry A. Abrams & Kokila

Contenders and My Powerful Hair are two latest kids’s books about Indigenous heritage.

Henry A. Abrams & Kokila

Many Indigenous authors are writing concerning the previous, current and way forward for Native life and tradition within the U.S. Here are some who’ve just lately shared their tales with NPR:

• Carole Lindstrom’s My Powerful Hair turns a painful fact about racism right into a celebration of Native tradition.  
• Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr tells the story of John Meyers and Charles Bender’s 1911 World Series faceoff. 
• Morgan Talty balances heaviness with humor in Night of the Living Rez, a group of quick tales about members of a Native American tribe wrestling with poverty and habit. 
• In Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future, Patty Krawec explores Native and settler historical past, fantasy and id, weaving her own story with ancestors’.

Check out among the podcast episodes from the NPR Network that highlight Native tales:

• NHPR’s Civics 101 appears to be like on the well-worn tales of Christopher Columbus, Pocahontas, the Pilgrims and Puritans and the Founding Fathers. Separate reality from fiction and study how these foundational myths came to be.
• At a sacred spring excessive up on California’s Mount Shasta, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe recounts the beginnings of the world when salmon gave up their voices in order that people might converse. KALW’s The Spiritual Edge explores the particular obligation they now really feel to defend salmon in return for this reward.
• Most reservation land within the U.S. really is not owned by tribes. NPR’s Throughline took a road trip through two reservations — one completely owned by the tribe and one the place the tribe owns only a fraction of the land. It explores the moments that led them down totally different paths, and what their futures appear to be. 

Stories you will have missed

The waters off Morro Rock might be a bellwether for local weather change, since hotter water species might migrate into the realm because the ocean heats up.

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The Biden administration is one step away from designating the primary nationwide marine sanctuary nominated by a tribe. The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary would forestall wind generators and offshore oil platforms from being put in in some 5,600 sq. miles of ocean off the central California coast — land that has been sacred to the Chumash people for 20,000 years.

The metropolis of Denver donated 35 bison to a number of Native American tribes and one memorial council in Colorado, Oklahoma and Wyoming. It’s an instance of Indigenous folks reclaiming stewardship over land and animals that their ancestors managed for generations.

After a lot lobbying, an Alaska faculty district can now function on an educational calendar aligned with seasonal subsistence harvests. That lets college students take part within the fall moose hunt and spring migratory hen harvest, studying conventional information that can’t be gained in a classroom.

This e-newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Suzanne Nuyen contributed.