Keystone XL: Counting Coup on SD Utilities Commission Delivers Powerful Message

Mary Annette Pember
1/11/16
Although the touch of her cane was as light as a feather, the weight of counting coup on Keystone pipeline supporters was heavy with symbolism...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, January 10, 2016

ICTMN Staff
1/10/16
Rogue militants, a whiny corporation, a chastened grave robber and the halls of Fame and Shame were on Indian country’s collective mind this past week...

Keystone XL: TransCanada Files $15 Billion Lawsuit Over Pipeline Rejection

ICTMN Staff
1/7/16
A day after the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission approved its permit, TransCanada Corp...

Year of Clout: 10 Stories of Indigenous Environmental Influence in 2015

ICTMN Staff
12/29/15
Indigenous activism continued to influence the environmental movement and policy, with some major victories, most notably the defeat of the Keystone XL pipeline...

TransCanada Urged to Throw in the Towel—Literally—on 'Zombie' Keystone XL

ICTMN Staff
12/28/15
It's a Zombie Apocalypse mopped up with an ink-stained towel that's as dead as that parrot immortalized in the infamous Monty Python skit...

How Grassroots Choked the XL Pipeline

Monique Vondall-Rieke
12/22/15

The November 6, 2015 announcement of the rejection of the Presidential Permit that would allow TransCanada to continue the XL Pipeline project to the Gulf of Mexico was rejected after being placed on hold by President Obama in 2011 amid conflicts of the route of the pipeline through sacred sites...

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Video: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Role in Defeat of Keystone XL

ICTMN Staff
11/23/15
President Barack Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on November 6 prompted elation, and a celebration the following weekend at the Rosebud Sioux offices...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country, November 8, 2015

ICTMN Staff
11/8/15
This past week brought no shortage of victories and sorrows to Indian country, ranging from the untimely death of a young, beloved singer-songwriter to the rejection of the Keyston...

Video: Watch President Barack Obama Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline

ICTMN Staff
11/7/15
During years of review and debate, the Keystone XL pipeline project had become a lightning rod for those opposed to mining the oil sands of Alberta, uniting them with people who ow...

Keystone XL Rejection: Indigenous Resistance Exults, Trudeau ‘Disappointed’

ICTMN Staff
11/6/15
Indigenous activists and environmentalists hailed President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday November 6, calling it a victory for Mother Earth and a s...

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