Conversations on Native American Cultural Sovereignty
The Biden administration is in talks with tribes, environmental groups and others fighting for dams to be removed from the lower Snake River in the Pacific Northwest.
Source: Plaintiffs in Long Fight Over Endangered Salmon Hope a Resolution Is Near
by Livia Albeck-Ripka, The New York Times
Flash floods last week pushed burned soil, rocks and downed timber into the river, killing off, according to local tribal leaders, thousands of fish.
Source: California Fire and Floods Turn a River to ‘Sludge,’ Killing Thousands of Fish
Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease.
Source: How Maori Stepped In to Save a Towering Tree Crucial to Their Identity
The West’s largest green energy storage project would destroy a Yakama sacred site. Now, the nation is fighting back.
Source: ‘Cultural resources are not a renewable thing for us.’
From an emergency declaration to a path toward net-zero, Dana Tizya-Tramm rose from personal depths to help the Vuntut Gwitchin become climate trailblazers.
“Imagine having the first community that is completely off-grid . . . We’re dropping a stone in the water and it’s creating a ripple effect.”
Rising sea levels pose “an existential threat” to the islands, a recent World Bank study said.
One of the issues not gaining as much media attention as it deserves during the current Climate Summit is the disproportionate impact of climate change on indigenous homelands.
“I don’t think it should be acceptable to any person in this world to write off a country . . . .Those who are the larger wealthier nations who have really created the problem in the first place, unfortunately, have the resources to respond and we do not”
Source: Marshall Islands pleads with world leaders to stop the 60,000-person nation from drowning
by Brian Oaster
Confused about what’s happening on the Klamath? Dams, salmon, irrigation and more.
Source: Klamath River issues explained
Brian Oaster (they/them) is an editorial intern at High Country News and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. They are an award-winning investigative journalist living in the Pacific Northwest.
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Source: Avi Kwa Ame
They are being recovered from seed banks, university vaults, and museum shelves.
Source: Centuries After Their Loss and Theft, Native American Seeds Are Reuniting With Their Tribes
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear