From Beads to Bounty: How Wampum Became America’s First Currency—And Lost Its Power

Ann C. Tweedy
January 14, 2013
When Prince Philip of the Pokanokets (later known as the Wampanoags) proudly wore his wampum—decorative beads made from whelk and clam shells—he was proudly declaring several thing...

Quechan Tribe Sues to Halt Construction of Wind Factory on Sacred Land

Gale Courey Toensing
June 23, 2012
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the following warning on its web page regarding Southern California’s Coyote Mountains Wilderness Area: “Removal, dist...

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...

Massachusetts Tribes Unhappy With Energy Project

Gale Courey Toensing
April 06, 2011
The country’s first offshore wind-energy plant, meant to demonstrate the depth of the Obama administration’s commitment to renewable energy, may also reveal the limits of its dedic...

Cape Wind Bogged Down in Lawsuits

Gale Courey Toensing
January 12, 2011
Eight months after the Obama administration approved what it hopes will be America’s flagship offshore industrial wind energy factory in the waters of Nantucket Sound that are sacr...

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