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A 76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned in New York City
All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, Sotheby's said.

Emmett Till’s family seeks arrest of woman after 1955 warrant is found
A warrant for an arrest was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, said Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill.
Meet Oregonian Dr. Alan Hart, who underwent the first documented gender-confirming surgery in the US
Dr. Alan Hart was born Alberta “Lucille” Hart in 1890. Hart grew up in the Willamette Valley and attended Albany College, now Lewis & Clark College. He would rise to the top of his field in treating and studying tuberculous. His pioneering work using x-rays for early detection is credited with saving thousands of lives.

The US is reckoning with its troubled past of Indian boarding schools
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and tribal leaders are advocating for a congressional commission to examine the impacts of the federal Native American forced-assimilation policy.

Timbers from famed Beeswax shipwreck found on the northern Oregon Coast
This week, under the watchful eyes of state and marine archaeologists, a crew of sheriff’s deputies, state parks employees and others scrambled over barnacle-crusted rocks at low tide to haul out timbers now believed to belong to the wreck of Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Spanish galleon also known as the Beeswax for the valuable wax that formed part of its cargo.

Companies are selling Juneteenth branded products. Here’s why that’s a big problem
Brands and companies are working to remove their Juneteenth items from shelves, as experts say those who are selling Juneteenth-branded products are "tone-deaf."

Haaland seeks healing for Native American boarding school survivors
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about her department's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.
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Interior Department leaders decry traumatic legacy of federal boarding schools for Native American children
It's the most thorough, and most honest, recounting of the use of Indian boarding schools by the federal agency that ran the program.

US report on Indigenous boarding schools to be released Wednesday
The U.S. Interior Department is expected to release a report Wednesday that it says will begin to uncover the truth about the federal government's past oversight of Native American boarding schools.
When Oregon’s State Capitol burned to the ground
On April 25, 1935, Oregon's State Capitol burned to the ground. It was the state's second capitol building destroyed by fire.