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Environmental issues, land rights, natural resource management and water protection efforts across Native communities.
Fort Belknap Indian Community

Fort Belknap Indian Community meets with BLM to discuss mining threat

When an Oil Company Profits From a Pipeline Running Beneath Tribal Land Without Consent, What’s Fair Compensation?
The Tesoro High Plains Pipeline carries crude oil beneath the Little Missouri River beyond the boundaries of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. A Biden administration official wants a fresh look at the multi-million-dollar dispute between hundreds of Three Affiliated Tribes landowners and the pipeline company. Credit: Jodi Spotted Bear/Buffalo's Fire
Charges against Nick Tilsen and Land Defenders dropped, NDN Collective celebrates a victory for the movement
NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen
Native pipeline fighters jockey for Biden attention
By Talli Nauman
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ShineThe Shine series will explore limitations and solutions to press freedom and government transparency in Indian Country.
Buffalo’s Fire wins awards, Silver Telly for digital news video
By Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
The National Native Media Award and Telly Award received by Buffalo's Fire.
100 year history of landmark fight for the Black Hills
More water protectors arrested for halting Line 3 work
Water protectors chained themselves together inside a segment of Enbridge's Line 3, temporarily halting construction. (Photo courtesy of Ginew Collective)
Tribes reclaiming lands ‘actually happening’
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has purchased farmland as part of their comprehensive land reclamation strategy.
Which U.S. Cities Get Failing Grades on Parks
Jill Stewart, FairWarning
A hearing in Fresno on parks tax measure
News Analysis: Brothers sue TAT chairman, rural water 'pioneers' for Section 17 trespass
By Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
Bartlett and West water pipeline
Lakota elder planted first hemp crop nearly 20 years ago, new industry to follow
By Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Horseback rider visits tribes along 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline
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Winnebago Tribe among the first to enter industrial hemp industry
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe goes solar
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Kanaka Maoli: 'Do not mistake our aloha for weakness'
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Earthquake: Mother Earth is powerful 'and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing'
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Seven ways tribes are repairing the Salish Sea and Washington waterways
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How do tribal nations’ treaties figure into climate change?
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Energy Department to redefine 'high level' waste as 'low level' waste; so much 'more efficient'
Navajo Generating Station power plant in daytime putting steam into blue sky in distance
Interior Department’s coal reboot ignores tribes and curtails public input
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