Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting for Land and Life

Jenni Monet, YES! Magazine
10/7/16
When opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline galvanized the support of hundreds of U.S. tribes, it became an unprecedented show of Indian country unity and resolve...

Bears Ears Alternative Moves Into House of Representatives as Opponents Cry Land Grab

Kim Baca
10/6/16
A congressional bill touted as an alternative to the Bears Ears proposal, an intertribal request to designate nearly two million acres of land as a national monument in southeast U...

9 Reasons NOT to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Kinzua Dam

Christina Rose
10/7/15
By the mid 1960s, Congress had gone dam crazy. Dams had been built all along the Missouri River and elsewhere throughout the country, and many of them were built on treaty land...

4 Congressional Land Grabs

Christina Rose
9/28/15
Oak Flat, Arizona, and the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, are sacred sites under attack by state officials, who successfully lobby Congress to take the land for state’s interests...
George Gillete Fort Berthold Missouri River Dam

Echoes of Oak Flat: 4 Pick Sloan Dams That Submerged Native Lands

Christina Rose
9/11/15
The Oak Flat land grab is just one of many acts of the federal government that has seized Indian land or despoiled it...