Tag: Native Americans
Native American burial sites destroyed during Trump’s border wall construction
“There has been no consultation with the nation. This administration is basically trampling on the tribe’s history — and to put it poignantly, it’s ancestry.”
Ceasar: Grief and challenge
The intersection of guns, drugs, poverty, scant education, substandard health care, high unemployment, and corruption are literally producing conditions that invariably redound the hardest and worst on young people of color.
Study: Native Americans barely impacted landscape for 14,000 years. Europeans came...
“Our work should cause some New England conservationists to reconsider both their rationale and tools for land management.”
From Alcatraz to Standing Rock: The 50-year arc of Native activism
Tracing the path of pan-Native activism.
Healing from colonization on Thanksgiving and beyond
The gap between colonized and colonizer can be bridged, although it will take a lot of work on the part of both.
Native American tribes oppose Colorado River project on Navajo land
Besides the affront to sacred Native American land and water, environmental groups see a devastating impact from Pumped Hydro Storage's proposal.
Native American leaders: Keystone spill highlights the need to oppose Dakota...
“The era of fossil fuels must end."
Making national parks accessible to native people again
A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?
2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at...
Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.
How Albuquerque hopes to meet the unique needs of urban Native...
In Albuquerque, Native Americans account for about 4% of the population, yet they make up 44% of the city’s homeless population, according...
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.