Teacher Shanelle Yazzie works with children at a Head Start facility on the Navajo Nation. Funds to keep the Head Start programs running are slow to reach these facilities during the federal government shutdown.
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Native American tribes are more dependent on federal dollars than many other communities. As the shutdown continues, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye is asking Congress to exempt tribes.
In this Dec. 7, 2018, relatives of people missing in China's far western region of Xinjiang hold up photos at an office of a Chinese Kazakh advocacy organization in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Teacher Shanelle Yazzie works with children at a Head Start facility on the Navajo Nation. Funds to keep the Head Start programs running are slow to reach these facilities during the federal government shutdown.
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Composer Olivier Messiaen in 1983, at the organ at the Trinité church in Paris where he held the post of organist for over 60 years.
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