Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 130)

Oklahoma Awakes to Grim New Reality as Recovery Efforts Begin

As Oklahoma awoke to a devastating new reality—inasmuch as...

President Obama to Oklahoma: Every Resource Is at Your Disposal

As responders, including at least 250 National Guardsmen,...

Tornadoes Slice Through Midwest, Threatening Indian Country

Tornadoes cut swathes of destruction through Indian country...

Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials

Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked...

Climate Change: Arctic Ocean Is Acidifying Fast, Study Shows

The Arctic Ocean is heating up, its ice and permafrost are...

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

In what may be the most glaring example of climate change...

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Xaxli’p Elder Mauled to Death by Bear in B.C.

ICTMN Staff

July 14, 2011

The small, remote British Columbia community of Xaxli’p First Nation is mourning the woman its members called “Aunt” after respected elder Bernice Evelyn Adolph was killed by a bla...

Aquinnah Wampanoag Sues Feds Over Cape Wind

Gale Courey Toensing

July 14, 2011

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has filed a lawsuit to stop the development of a massive offshore wind energy plant in an area of Nantucket Sound that is sacred to the P...

Flash Flooding Follows Forest Fires

Lee Allen

July 11, 2011

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer surprised few attendees at the Western Governors’ Association meeting last week when she acknowledged that one of her biggest fears as she began running...

Natives Say Forest Service Broke Rules, Obama Administration Asked to Investigate

Rob Capriccioso

July 11, 2011

In the latest twist to the saga involving the increasingly likely desecration of sites held sacred by some American Indians, a coalition of Indian citizens has filed a last-ditch l...

‘Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison’ Coming to Independent Lens

Vincent Schilling

July 11, 2011

Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison , directed by Doug Hawes-Davis and presented by Big Sky Pictures, has been selected for inclusion in the 2010-11 season of the PBS ser...

Dechinta Centre, NWT: Living off the Land

ICTMN Staff

July 09, 2011

On their visit to Canada, royal couple William and Kate spent an afternoon at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, on Blachford Lake in the North West Territories...

Salazar Announces $4.4 Million in Grants for Historic Preservation by American Indian Tribes

ICTMN Staff

July 08, 2011

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced $4.4 million in grants from the Historic Preservation Fund to 117 American Indian tribes to assist with the preservation of im...

Wildfires Force Evacuation of 530 from Deer Lake First Nation

ICTMN Staff

July 08, 2011

The remote First Nations community of Deer Lake in northern Ontario is in dire straits, threatened by out-of-control wildfires that have forced more than 500 people to evacuate...

Ecuador’s Napo Wildlife Center’s Eco-tourism Is Great for Guests—and the Community

David Dudenhoefer

July 07, 2011

As I float up a serpentine creek in the heart of the Ecuadorean Amazon in a canoe paddled by two men from the Kichwa community of Añangu, I marvel at the exuberance of the surround...

Onondaga Indian Nation Approved for Return of Murphy’s Island

ICTMN Staff

July 06, 2011

“One step closer.” That’s what Lloyd Withers, founder of Onondaga Shoreline Heritage Restoration said about the legislation, recently passed, to return Murphy’s Island on Onondaga ...