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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: "Sans sans-serif";"><font size="3">How To Be An Ally To Indigenous Peoples</font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">Care for the Earth</span>.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Give thanks frequently.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Respect and support Indigenous sovereignty.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Learn about treaties.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Remember that treaties are</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">the Supreme Law of the United States.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">(Article 6, US Constitution)</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Demand that our nation honor its</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">treaty commitments.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Consider future generations in all your actions.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Question and resist stereotypes</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">including team names and mascots</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">Learn about and reject the "Doctrine of Discovery"</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">Reach out to your Indigenous neighbors</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Slow down and listen more than you talk.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Notice where you are.</font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">Live with gratitude</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Live lightly on the Earth.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Work to end global warming.</font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">Support renewable energy</span>.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Stop hydrofracking, dirty coal and uranium mining.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Don't co-opt Native cultures or ceremonies.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Return sacred objects.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Read and promote the UN Declaration on the </font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">Rights of Indigenous Peoples</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Celebrate Idegenous Peoples' Day</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">every October 12</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Learn about the people indigenous to </font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><font size="3" style=""><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif";">wherever you are</span>.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Read Native Authors. Support Native</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">craftspeople, businesses and events.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Remember that all beings (animals and plants)</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">are your relatives and not your resources.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">Appreciate the diversity of nations,</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Sans sans-serif"; font-style: italic;"><font size="3">cultures and people.</font></span></div>
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