Native Environmental News and Articles (Page 140)

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

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

Descending Drought Puts Klamath Tribes and Farmers on Brink of Water War

The Klamath Tribes possess the oldest water rights in the...

Navajo Council Forms Liability Company to Buy Navajo Mine

The Navajo Nation Council has voted to form a limited...

Tribes Benefit From Portion of Nearly $1 Million in Grants to 56 National Parks

Tribal culture may benefit from some of nearly $1 million...

Mississippi Water Walkers Arrive in Louisiana With Water From the River's Source

Today the mouth of the Mississippi River will drink from...

Fill Gaps in Keystone XL Draft Environment Report or Reject Pipeline, NCAI Tells Obama Administration

Noting a lack of “critical information” about potential...

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From ‘Crying Indian’ to International Mother Earth Day

ICTMN Staff

April 22, 2011

When Iron Eyes Cody, the Italian-cum-Native who first brought Americans' attention to the problem of litter, shed that single tear after being hit with garbage, he could not know t...

Gulf Tribes Still Struggling a Year After Oil Spill

Terri Hansen

April 22, 2011

The 20,000 American Indians who live along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, descendents of the region’s earliest inhabitants, have proven their mettle again and again when faced with extrem...

LaDuke’s Earth Day Observations Resonate

Carol Berry

April 22, 2011

DENVER—Praising a draft United Nations treaty that would confer protections for Mother Earth, noted activist Winona LaDuke, White Earth Band of Ojibwe, also gave an Earth Day plug ...

'Unprecedented' Flooding Hits First Nations Hard

ICTMN Staff

April 22, 2011

Dozens of First Nation communities in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are in crisis as the worst floods in 150 years forced up to a thousand aboriginals from their homes, and Ca...

Help the Earth Environmental Film Fest this Saturday, Hosted by Montano Rain

ICTMN Staff

April 22, 2011

Seventeen-year-old Apache/Cheyenne actor and activist Montano Rain ( The Matrix Reloaded ) will host a multi-faceted Earth Day celebration in Venice, California, this Saturday Apri...

Choctaw Nation Helps Tornado Victims

ICTMN Staff

April 21, 2011

The Choctaw Nation in southeastern Oklahoma joined other relief workers in rallying around residents of Tushka this week, where two people died, at least 25 were injured and 149 ho...

Cape Wind Approved, Fight Continues

Gale Courey Toensing

April 21, 2011

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was flanked by supporters of the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for the proposed massive wind energy project in Nantucket Sound when h...

Celebrate National Parks Week

ICTMN Staff

April 20, 2011

It's National Park Week (April 16-24), with this year's focus on "Healthy Parks, Healthy People," drawing a connection between environmental and human health and the crucial role o...