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Aja DeCoteau (Yakama Nation) will become the first Native American to serve on the National Park System Advisory Board, the Department of Interior announced last week.  

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Tribal leaders, elected officials and community members met with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) on Saturday in northern Arizona to talk about conservation efforts on the historic Grand Canyon watershed.

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SAN FRANSISCO— The federal government has temporarily halted plans to construct a copper mine on sacred Indigenous land in Arizona known as Oak Flat, citing an error in oral arguments made at a March hearing.

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WASHINGTON — After decades of advocacy by tribal nations, states and conservation groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is updating requirements for one of the largest sources of mercury pollution.

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A California Tribe is officially teaming up with the state and a federal agency to restore endangered salmon populations in the state’s northern region.
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WADENA, Minn.—On Thursday, Wadena County dismissed all charges against activist Winona LaDuke for her role in protests against Enbridge’s Line 3 Expansion Oil Pipeline Project in Minnesota. 

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WASHINGTON— Tribal and congressional leaders joined the San Carlos Apache Tribe on Wednesday, April 26, in a prayer ceremony and press conference denouncing Arizona’s Resolution Copper Mine project. 

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This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online.

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CARLISLE, Penn.—Tara Houska, Anishinaabe lawyer, advocate, and activist from the Couchiching First Nation, has been selected to receive Dickenson College’s Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism.
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GARDINER, Mont. — Bison conservation organizations are calling the most recent season the deadliest wild buffalo have seen since the 2007-2008 season. 
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