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Left: "The "Piebald" Horse" by Paulus Potter, 1650, CC0 1.0, Getty. Right: "The Dells, Chimney Rock by unknown artist, 1900, CC0 1.0, Getty.
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"Open Heritage Roundtable" by Dee Harris, 2026, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
"Archiving the Present workshop" by Subhashish, 2026, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Photo by Anna Tumadóttir, 2026, is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
"Moonlight in the Sahara" by Sergey Pesterev is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Still from Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home (2023), Andreas Burgess & Jane Anderson in collaboration with James Francis, Jennifer Neptune & Darren Ranco. ©️ Penobscot Nation and Local Contexts. This material carries TK Attribution, TK Outreach, and TK Non-Commerical Labels.
