Bone
Word spread among the Alutiiq children in Larsen Bay, Alaska: An anthropologist from Washington, D.C., would pay them 10 cents to find him human bones. Ales Hrdlicka, a Smithsonian anthropologist, repeatedly traveled to this small community on Kodiak Island in the 1930s to exhume Indigenous graves. In what amounted to industrial-scale pillaging, he and a […]
Nearly 30 years after her brother died of a blood disease while waiting for a bone marrow transplant, a Corpus Christi activist received an opportunity to meet the man who gave her a second chance at life. Ticia Hanisch, a 76-year-old Corpus Christi resident, was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome in September 2018. She was referred […]
Vitamin D supplements are widely recommended to prevent bone fractures in older adults — but a clinical trial, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that they may not do much after all. In 2011, the National Academy of Medicine (then called the Institute of Medicine) recommended the general public get between […]
Assuming her spirit was actually there in Sebastian’s room, I have to wonder what the message is if Sylvia’s ghost would still choose to return to care for this little white boy even after the outpouring of grief at the funeral from her own daughter who felt neglected in favor of the white children in […]
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