Tribes need to invest in their young people — and in technology
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Leaps and boundaries for Wyoming tribes
State battles Wind River tribes over expanded reservation and greater stake in energy management.
Posted inJanuary 12, 2015: What Are We Thinking?
A modern movement in tribal building design
Review of “New Architecture on Indigenous Lands,” by Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka
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Four reasons why Keystone is a goner
Climate change? Treaty rights? Sure, but the real killer is The Market.
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New law protects Alaska Native women
The ability to prosecute domestic violence may be the first step toward creating Indian Country in Alaska.
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Regulators dampen hopes for tribal solar project
The Moapa Solar Energy Center would have provided 175 megawatts to Nevada’s largest utility.
Posted inDecember 22, 2014: The Dust Detectives
A question of fluency on the Navajo Nation
A cultural debate leaves the presidency in limbo.
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How Native Americans have shaped the year’s biggest environmental debates
And how lawmakers can improve their record next year.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
Alaska’s energy labs
Hybrid technologies help distribute power in isolated communities.
Posted inDecember 8, 2014: The Great Salmon Compromise
The great salmon compromise
The Columbia Basin Fish Accords have funded $1 billion worth of habitat restoration projects, but can they replace free-flowing rivers?
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Why are Hopi rangers impounding sheep at Black Mesa?
The latest in a fraught relationship between Navajo and Hopi in northern Arizona.
Posted inNovember 24, 2014: Transportation Transformation
Latest: Bison transferred to Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Disease-free animals from Yellowstone get a new home.
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Should the president of the Navajo Nation speak Navajo?
A play-by-play of an election that poses big questions about fluency.
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The Young and the reckless: Alaskan congressman’s offenses draw spotlight
Don Young might be the most volatile politician in America.
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Making sure every Native voter has the opportunity to cast a ballot
Less than a week to go until Election Day. Its one thing to make the case that every American Indian and Alaska Native should vote. Its another to make certain that the door to the voting booth is actually open and there is a ballot ready to go. Across the country thats the challenge. One […]
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From the Tipi to the Tesla
Activist Winona LaDuke on environmental justice and foregoing unclean technology.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
The Latest: Feds pay final installments of $3.4 million settlement to Native Americans
The Cobell case paid mineral royalties long due to tribal members.
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Navajo ranching in the Chuska Mountains
Keeping a tradition alive in western New Mexico.
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Watershed moment
The U.S. and Canada prepare to renegotiate the 50-year-old Columbia River Treaty.