Narragansett Indian Tarzan Brown won the Boston Marathon in 1936 and 1939, and the marathon’s infamous Heartbreak Hill owes its name to him. So why did he die in obscure poverty?
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Running to Remember
Nineteen-year-old Ku Stevens is both a record-breaking distance runner and an inspiring Native American activist intent on exposing the dark history of Indian boarding schools.
Red Bulletin
Edited by Nora O’Donnell
In the Melting Arctic, a Reckoning to Save Indigenous Culture, Narwhals, and a Silent Sea
As a mining company seeks to ship millions of tons more of iron ore through caribou and narwhal habitat, good science requires the input of the Inuit.
Natural Resources Defense Council
Edited by Melissa Mahony
The Sound of Too Much Noise
The Arctic narwhal is being threatened by a new enemy: the clamor of passing ships.
Maclean’s
Edited by Charlie Gillis
Mill Town
In Jay, Maine, the paper mill has been the lynch pin of the economy since the 1880s. And now it may close.
The Boston Globe Magazine
Edited by Michael Fitzgerald and Francis Storrs
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The Price of Gold
What happens when your neighborhood is demolished to make way for the Olympic Games? A visit to Vila Autodromo, a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell
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Ways and Means
Russell Means is an American Indian activist and a movie star who played the last Mohican in Last of the Mohicans. In late 2007, he seceded from the United States, to launch The Republic of Lakotah. But is Lakotah an actual sovereign nation, or just a state of mind?
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photo by Hector Emanuel.
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