Ruth Hopkins

Obama Should Protect Citizens' Health, not Monsanto’s GMOs

Welcome to the laboratory-rat cage, folks. We’re all being experimented on by Monsanto and the federal government.

In April, President Barack Obama signed HR 933 into law. While this appropriations bill was fairly standard, a biotech rider included in it was not....

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May 07, 2013

The New York Times: Politics Played a Big Role in Keepseagle

Rob Capriccioso
May 06, 2013
The most respected newspaper in the country has pointed out the sour political undercurrent in the 2011 Keepseagle settlement that awarded $760 million to Native American farmers f...

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Signs Regulation Confirming "Government to Government" Consultation with Tribes

ICTMN Staff
February 01, 2013
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack strengthened the consultation and coordination process with Indian tribes by signing a Departmental Regulation that “establishes over-arching Depa...
Darlene L. Barnes

Misconceptions Abound About Nutrition of Federal Food Programs

On November 28, 2012, Indian Country Today Media Network published this article on the diabetes problem in the Native American community....

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January 20, 2013

Federal Departments Sign Sacred Sites Protection Agreement

Gale Courey Toensing
December 13, 2012
Four federal government departments have signed a five-year agreement to work together to improve the protection of Indian sacred sites on federal lands and tribal access to them...
Cole R. DeLaune

Kristi Noem and Mary Bono Mack Are Both Friends to Indian Country

To a certain species of political observer, the popular impulse when confronted with ideological complexity is to see past any suggestion of nuance to a profitable corollary....

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November 01, 2012

Navajo President Shelly Shares USDA Thoughts at Roundtable

ICTMN Staff
July 28, 2012
Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly joined tribal delegations from the Pueblo of Laguna, Cochiti Pueblo, Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Pueblo of Zuni, who made up part of the 40 pe...

Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Receives More Than $7M in Funding

ICTMN Staff
May 04, 2012
At a ceremony on April 25, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority was presented with more than $7 million in loan and grant funding for upgrades to the current Navajo Nation wastewate...

USDA Purchases Meat Containing Seven Million Pounds of 'Pink Slime' for School Lunches

ICTMN Staff
March 12, 2012
Outrage erupted this past week over the U.S...

USDA Announces Funding to Help Rural Residents in Remote Areas Reduce Energy Costs

ICTMN Staff
November 11, 2011
On November 4, Dallas Tonsager, under secretary to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, made the announcement on behalf of Vilsack of funding to help reduce energy costs in remote ru...

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