Tag: Native Americans
How tribes are harnessing cutting-edge data to plan for climate change
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest are leaders in climate adaptation and have mounted multifaceted responses to the threats they face.
Can Native American tribes protect their land if they’re not recognized...
State laws and policies in California have made some progress possible, but many tribes still lack legal recognition and struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and the environment.
56 million Native American deaths caused by European colonizers changed Earth’s...
"For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is ... because of the genocide of millions of people."
Native American communities bear brunt of shutdown with medicine shortages &...
Democratic members of Congress held a hearing Tuesday on the effects of the shutdown on health, education and employment in Native communities.
Native Americans take power
“Voting is how we exercise our sovereignty. We are here, we are part of the process. We’ve been an afterthought, and that’s not the case anymore.”
U.S. to investigate discrimination against Native American students on Montana reservation
The Education Department said it will look into a long-standing complaint of racial inequities in Wolf Point schools after The New York Times and ProPublica wrote a story about the issue.
How Native and white communities make alliances to protect the earth
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
“We are still here”: Native Americans win a voice in government
In light of important midterm election wins, two Native journalists revisit the influence of Indigenous peoples on democracy through the ages.
Deb Haaland, one of nation’s first Native Congresswomen, calls for probe...
"I’ll go to Congress to make sure that we are paying attention to the issues that folks care about."
North Dakota’s Native Americans surged to the polls amid disenfranchisement fears
The effort followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that allowed state voter identification requirements to go into effect for the general election.
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Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands
DOGE cuts are killing Americans.
More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market...
Ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.
Department of government chaos, revenge, and patronage
And MAGA, in the end, is just a load of DoGCRaP
Controversial ‘nonprofit killer’ clause quietly removed from GOP megabill—but advocates warn it could return
A sweeping provision to strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status without due process is no longer in the latest House GOP budget bill, but civil liberties groups say the threat to free speech and advocacy is far from over.