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Environmental issues, land rights, natural resource management and water protection efforts across Native communities.
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Native pipeline fighters jockey for Biden attention

By Talli Nauman
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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Tribes are harnessing cutting-edge data to adapt to the climate crisis
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Treaty rights prevail in Supreme Court
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Waiting for Congress to fund tribal water projects... as promised
Chairman Edward D Manuel older native american man with gray hair wearing suit looking in the distance