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Story on oil companies withholding revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from in #NorthDakota (h/t Charles Ornstein on bsky) | ProPublica. 1/2
https://www.propublica.org/ar…

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say
Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.

When the Spanish colonized the region in the 17th century,
they didn't introduce horses to Indigenous people, as long thought.
Instead, horses were present in the Southwest long before Europeans,
and were traded by Indigenous people who formed close relationships with them.
Horses lived in North America for millions of years
but went extinct at the end of the last ice age, about 11,000 years ago.
When Europeans reintroduced horses to what is now the ea…

Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought
Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

Anyone out their interested in Indigenous history in North America should check out Michael Leroy Oberg's rolling list of new publications. He updates it several times a year and covers a lot of ground.
https://michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publications/

New Publications – Native America: A History

US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-government-takes-down-major-north-korean-remote-it-workers-operation/

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Un train stationne Š Gare du Nord vers Bobigny Pablo Picasso en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur Š Gare du Nord .
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The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

An 11,000-year-old settlement in Canada is challenging the idea that early Indigenous people were nomadic.
The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language,
is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent
and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought.

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

Now it's northern China: floods after record rainfall.
Baoding’s Xizhuang station recorded 540mm in eight hours, exceeding Baoding’s average annual rainfall of about 500mm.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

@… ‘Norse’ voyages to North America would be crewed by people who included Icelanders, Greenlanders, a Turk, and two Scots.
What an interesting new study!
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