Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “A breath of fresh air.” It was a glorious sight to many in the environmental movement: President Bill Clinton traveled to Yellowstone National Park in August 1996, donned a ranger hat, and announced a deal that would stave off a gold mine in the […]
Bob Struckman
Posted inJanuary 20, 2003: A breath of fresh air
A breath of fresh air
Surrounded by a massive industrial buildup, the Northern Cheyenne tribe defends its homeland
Posted inJanuary 20, 2003: A breath of fresh air
Tribes gain power through federal environmental laws
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “A breath of fresh air.” For many decades after they were forced onto reservations in the late 1800s, Native American tribes had virtually no control over their land and environment. But today, 15 of the more than 500 tribes in the United States run […]