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Conscience Point: PBS Shinnecock Documentary Airs Monday

Conscience Point Conscience Point , a documentary following the struggle of the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s fight to reclaim its ancestral lands in the Hamptons, airs Monday night on PBS. The tribe has lost its land the decades to development for luxury mansions and golf courses in one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. The[...]

November 19, 2019

Tribes stop major Arizona copper mine from ravaging ancestral land

Austin Nuñez is Chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, which joined with the Hopi and Pascua Yaqui Tribes to fight a proposed open-pit copper mine on sacred sites in Arizona. | Mamta Popat/EcoWatch Rising above the Arizona desert, the Santa Rita Mountains cradle 10,000 years of Indigenous history. The Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe,[...]

November 19, 2019

Tribes consider a Pasco casino, maybe a water park, after signing agreement with city

The city of Pasco and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation are cooperating as tribal work advances toward creating a casino or other economic development in northeast Pasco. One possibility is a water park, with tribal officials saying that is open for discussion and could be a valuable service to the Tri-Cities region, given[...]

November 18, 2019

The Invention of Thanksgiving

The Indians who joined the mistrustful Pilgrims, Wampanoag tradition suggests, were honoring a mutual-defense pact. Autumn is the season for Native America. There are the cool nights and warm days of Indian summer and the genial query “What’s Indian about this weather?” More wearisome is the annual fight over the legacy of Christopher Columbus—a bold[...]

November 18, 2019

Cherokee Nation announcing impact on state economy

The Cherokee Nation will share the findings of the tribe’s most recent economic impact study during a forum luncheon at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa on Tuesday, Nov. 19. A team of Oklahoma City-based economists at the Economic Impact Group conducted the study. Dr. Russell Evans, principal of the Economic Impact Group and associate[...]

November 18, 2019

Amid Blackout, a California Tribal Village Kept Lights On With Solar Energy

The first solar farm in North Dakota went up this year — the Cannon Ball Community Solar Farm on the Standing Rock Reservation. Pixelci via Getty Images October’s 383,000-gallon spill of the Keystone Pipeline in Edinburgh, North Dakota reveals the pipeline for what it is: a deal with the devil. For those of us who[...]

November 18, 2019

Indian tribes fear Trump will be a buzzkill for their marijuana business

When the announced in 2013 that it had no interest in selling pot, its chairman said the tribe had “a long and unpleasant history with marijuana, just as we have had with alcohol.” But other tribes are raring to gain a foothold in the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry – and they say it would be a[...]

November 18, 2019

Broadband internet access coming to Navajo Nation communities in San Juan County

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Monument Valley in southern San Juan County, Utah, where fiber optic lines for broadband internet are scheduled to be placed in 2021. Bluff • The rural communities of White Mesa, Bluff and Montezuma Creek are scheduled to gain high-speed internet access next year as a $17.5 million, multiagency project[...]

November 18, 2019

Behind the Rise of Native American Wines

The Chief sculpture at Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre/Photo courtesy of Milk Creative Communications Several wineries and grape-growing relationships have emerged from Native American reservations in recent years. While each project looks different, they are all deliciously symbiotic. Tribes in California, New Mexico, Utah and British Columbia have created small, successful and critically acclaimed brands. They[...]

November 18, 2019

Our fight against the Dakota Access pipeline is far from over

In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s peaceful and principled opposition to a new crude oil pipeline crossing our ancestral homelands and our water source captured the world’s attention. Although the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) has been operating for more than two years, the Tribe’s defense of water and earth hasn’t faded from memory and[...]

November 18, 2019

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