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How Native Tribes Are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change

Members of the Swinomish tribe in Washington state prepare a new clam garden. Photo courtesy of Swinomish Indian Tribal Community On a hot summer’s day, marine ecologist Courtney Greiner walks the shore of a rocky Washington beach at low tide with a handful of staff and interns. They stake out the ground and hunch down,[...]

February 11, 2020

Ancient Art and Artifacts in Utah Are Threatened by Oil and Gas

Bears Ears National Monument’s Valley of the Gods (courtesy the US Bureau of Land Management via Wikimedia) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in once-protected national monuments in southern Utah, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, by redrawing the boundaries of the[...]

February 11, 2020

Doomsday Vault: Cherokee Nation is the first U.S. strain to preserve culturally important seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

For more than a decade, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – also known as the “Doomsday” vault – has been maintaining the world’s largest collection of different cultures. This week, the Cherokee Nation was the first tribe in the United States to be asked to deposit samples in the vault. According to a Cherokee Nation[...]

February 10, 2020

Pamunkey India Announce Casino Plans In Virginia

Virginia state is known for its ancestral Pamunkey Indian Tribe settled in King William County and neighbouring Richmond. Since the English conquest the tribe used to live in the same place, following ancestor traditions. Tribe members have just announced that they are ready to work on a $350 million luxury hotel and casino in Richmond.[...]

February 10, 2020

Public meeting Feb. 13 to discuss Bradley exit project

The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), in partnership with the Gun Lake Tribe, will have a public meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, to discuss a 2020-21 project to rebuild the US-131/M-179 (Chief Noonday Road/129th Avenue) interchange. The meeting will be held at the Gun Lake Tribal Administration Building, Multipurpose Room, 2872[...]

February 10, 2020

Sacred Native American site in Arizona blasted for border wall construction

Saguaros moved for construction of border wall in Organ Pipe Cactus Nati… TUCSON, Ariz. – The contractor that is building President Donald Trump’s border wall in southwestern Arizona began blasting this week through a site that the Native American O’odham people consider sacred to make way for newer, taller barriers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection[...]

February 10, 2020

Enbridge begins permitting for proposed pipeline reroute

Canadian energy firm Enbridge Inc. announced Friday it’s beginning the permitting process to reroute its Line 5 pipeline in northern Wisconsin. The line carries up to 23 million gallons of oil and natural gas liquids per day from Superior to Sarnia, Ontario. Enbridge has been exploring alternative routes for Line 5 since the Bad River[...]

February 10, 2020

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe speaks out

The six Ojibwe bands forming the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe have come together for the first time ever to publicly support a bill to ban copper-nickel mining near the Boundary Waters. On Jan. 31, Minnesota Chippewa Tribe President Cathy Chavers, the chairwoman for the Bois Forte Band, signed a letter addressed to a trio of Democratic[...]

February 10, 2020

Federal grant aids Washoe Tribe in economic planning

The Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada has ancestral lands that encompass a large area of the Sierra. Three tribal colonies are located in Nevada – Dresslerville, Carson and Stewart. In addition, the Hung a Lel-ti colony is located near Woodfords in Alpine County, Calif. Frank Grayshield, of the Carson Colony, speaks during the REDI[...]

February 10, 2020

Bishop Paiute Tribal Council Reaches Milestone Agreement with California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Pictured: Bishop Paiute Tribal Council. Government-to-government agreement acknowledges that the tribe may preserve its traditional culture and intergenerational well-being through its hunting practices News Release Fredericks Peebles & Patterson LLP On Tuesday, January 21, the Bishop Paiute Tribal Council and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife signed a historic Memorandum of Agreement reflecting the[...]

February 10, 2020

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