Environmental Education Outreach Program Searching for Host Sites

ICTMN Staff
January 04, 2012
The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals - Environmental Education Outreach Program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona is seeking air quality and clim...

Makah, Tulalip Receive Funding for Engine Upgrades

Richard Walker
December 29, 2011
NEAH BAY, Washington — More than $1.3 million in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants are going to Indian country in Washington state to upgrade boats with low-emission eng...
Mark Trahant

Not a Bad Federal Budget, But Consider It a Transition Plan

I’ve been writing a lot lately about the Era of Contraction—the shrinking of the federal government—and what that policy means to ...

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December 24, 2011

Northwest Tribes and EPA Agree on Cleanup Plan for Upper Coeur d’Alene River Basin

ICTMN Staff
September 04, 2012
It has taken more than 30 years, but the U.S...

Grad Student Plans to Reintroduce Buffalo on Reservation

Evelyn Boswell, Montana State University News Service
December 05, 2011
A Montana State University graduate student who shares his father's dream of reintroducing buffalo to a Wyoming Indian reservation has received a national fellowship from the Envir...
Nathan Small

Still Fighting the Toxic Giant

A few years ago, USA Today did a two-page article about the problems faced by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in their battle to clean up a Superfund plant on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho (USA Today, "Tribes fight toxic giant," June 3, 1998)....

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October 17, 2011

Arsenic in Indian Water Tables Can Cause Diabetes, Other Illnesses

Terri Hansen
October 25, 2011
Arsenic, even for a poison, is one nasty brew...

Tribal Access to a Healthy and Clean Environment

Duane Champagne
October 14, 2011
During the 1960s many environmental activists and scholars became aware that a disproportionate amount of waste, poor water and bad air were found in minority and poor communities...

MHA Nation Objects to EPA Ruling Affecting Oil Drilling

ICTMN Staff
September 07, 2011
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation) said the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented a new rule without consulting tribes, reported The Minot Daily News ...

Documentary Featuring the Fight Between Ford and Ramapough Indians Premieres Tonight

Vincent Schilling
July 18, 2011
In 2006, approximately 30 years after the Ford Motor Company had dumped toxic waste on the land of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, the Ramapough filed a class action lawsuit agains...

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