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Last week, the Department of the Interior rejected a proposed 221-mile road that would stretch across federal lands to connect mineral mining areas in the state. The department said the decision would help protect the state's subsistence economy and preserve a way of life for Alaska Native communities.
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The Seneca Nation of western New York is considering legal action against a municipal government after its city’s wastewater treatment plant overflowed into the Nation’s waterways for the second time this year, according to a memo from the Tribe.
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Close to 25,000 acres have been burned in two ongoing wildfires on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation and U.S. Forest Service lands in South Central New Mexico, causing mandatory evacuations, utility outages, scorched structures, and at least two deaths, tribal and state officials confirmed.
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The summer solstice, occurring this year on June 21, marks the longest day of the year and the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
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In a groundbreaking federal report released on June 18, the U.S. government has, for the first time, admitted that the construction of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers has had detrimental effects on the Columbia Basin tribes.
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Federal hydropower dams are harming Native American communities in the Columbia River Basin, according to a first-of-its-kind report by the Department of the Interior released yesterday.
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Holding true to good environmental practices to protect Nokmëskinan (Grandmother Earth), the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish (Gun Lake Tribe), based in Shelbyville, Mich., announced on Monday it will host a free tire waste recycling event on Thursday, July 18 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. or until capacity has been met in Wayland. This event is being held in conjunction with local tire recycler Cobalt Holdings.
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The White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota received $1.75 million to use energy storage to increase their solar power usage. The project will expand an existing solar array at Pine Point Elementary School and Community Center to help lower electricity costs and support White Earth’s goal to be energy independent.
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Last week, a U.S. district judge dismissed claims by Native American tribes and environmentalists seeking to stop construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line in Arizona.
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Tribal buffalo manager Jason Baldes of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe was recognized last week by the National Geographic Society with a 2024 Wayfinder Award for his work to restore buffalo to tribal lands.
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