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WEBSep 16, 2024 · A billionaire-backed company will continue sowing support, while residents weigh their options. Erin X. Wong September 17, 2024. States own lands on reservations. To use them, tribes have to pay ...
6 things you should know about the 2021 Native American Voting …
WEBSep 10, 2021 · 4) The law will establish Native American voting task forces. NAVRA would establish state-level voting task forces to address some of the issues unique to Indian Country, including inadequate ...
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Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
WEBJan 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande used to provide water on a bell curve, with powerful floods in the spring and summer and lower and slower flows in the winter. Now the dams release about 20% of what naturally ...
Trump’s impact on Indian Country over four years
WEBDec 16, 2020 · When President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, many tribal leaders took a wait-and-see approach, given his poor record on Indigenous affairs. Four years later, Indian Country has ...
How Indigenous voters swung the 2020 election - High Country …
WEBNov 6, 2020 · As of Nov. 9, the three counties that overlap with the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation went for Biden at a rate of 57%, as opposed to 51% statewide. Voter precincts on the Navajo Nation ranged from ...
A map of $1.1 billion in natural gas pipeline leaks
WEBNov 29, 2017 · Between January 2010 and November 2017, the nation’s natural gas transportation network leaked a total of 17.55 billion cubic feet of mostly methane gas. That’s enough to heat 233,000 homes ...
A new biography resurrects a Western conservation writer
WEBAug 4, 2022 · Matthew Dillon/CC via Flickr. Ben Goldfarb is a High Country News correspondent and the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. His next book, on the science ...
A reality check on Biden’s ‘30 by 30’ conservation plan
WEBJun 23, 2021 · A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed an executive order that announced his commitment to protecting 30% of U.S. land and water — over 720 million acres — by 2030. The move ...
How, 150 years ago, the Homestead Act transformed the West
WEBDec 9, 2012 · This year marks the 150th anniversary of the fruit of Jefferson’s conviction — the 1862 Homestead Act. The federal law changed the West forever by providing a new start for urban emigrants ...
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