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An aerial view of the unincorporated city of Browning, Montana, the headquarters for the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, on October 20, 2023. Most national parks were set up in areas that are Indigenous ancestral lands. From the 19th century onward, Native Americans were expelled from them or forced to cede them via treaties with unequal terms. Termaine Edmo takes part in the Native America Speaks program which each summer brings members of her tribe, the Blackfeet Nation, to share their history with visitors to Glacier National Park. But the activist, her eyebrows furrowed, speaks harshly of those who administer the land "stolen" from her people, where plant harvests remain rationed. "They're still oppressing us," says Edmo, whose license plate begins with the letters "DECO," for "decolonization." (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)