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Native America Calling will host the most censored Native American newsmakers of 2011 on Friday, Dec. 30. Guests will include the Censored News Person of the Year: The Indigenous Woman.Native America Calling will host the most censored Native American newsmakers of 2011... more
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Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hailed as the largest of its kind in U.S. history.
More than 300,000 acres of critical habitat for threatened and endangered animals, including grizzly bears and lynx, will be transferred to public ownership in a $500 million deal with Plum Creek Timber. A ceremony was held Monday in Montana to sign the agreement.
The deal, equivalent to 500 square miles, spans a region known as the Crown of the Continent, a place environmentalists say is one of the most intact ecosystems remaining in the country.
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The United States is now occupying Lakota country illegally, in violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which granted the Lakota control of the Black Hills in western South Dakota. The treaty was repealed by Congress in 1877, and the Lakota have struggled ever since. "We are the poorest people in America," said Russell Means, "and we have the shortest life span in America, too. The life expectancy for Lakota women is 47; for a man, it's 44. After 155 years of genocide, our way of life is on the brink of extinction. We have finally decided to withdraw from the United States and save our people and our lands.The United States is now occupying Lakota country illegally, in violation of the 1868... more
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LA Times blockbuster series, Blighted Homeland investigates the effects of uranium mining in the Navajo Nation.
From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were dug and blasted from Navajo soil, nearly all of it for America's atomic arsenal. Navajos inhaled radioactive dust, drank contaminated water and built homes using rock from the mines and mills. Many of the dangers persist to this day. This four-part series examines the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation.LA Times blockbuster series, Blighted Homeland investigates the effects of uranium... more
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A judge has hinted he would not award Native Americans the 46 billion dollars they have demanded in a lawsuit charging the US government cheated them out of profits from land held in trust since the 1800s.
After hearing closing arguments that followed a 12-year marathon legal battle, US District Judge James Robertson on Wednesday indicated he was not ready to endorse an amount in the tens of billions of dollars as argued by lawyers representing the Native American plaintiffs.
The judge said he believed what was in dispute was whether the remedy should be in the millions or billions, or "10 digits or nine digits."
Lawyers for the Native Americans said the government had failed to pay out tens of billion dollars in oil, timber, mineral and grazing royalties from lands held in trust by the Department of Interior since 1887.
"Today, 500,000 Native Americans look to Washington with hope," plaintiffs' lawyer William Dorris told the court.
"They are not asking for a handout. They are simply asking for what is theirs."A judge has hinted he would not award Native Americans the 46 billion dollars they... more
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African-American and Native American youths make up only 8 percent of the county's population, yet accounted for 50 percent of the children in long-term foster care.
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Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land
Teddy Nez, a Navajo rancher and Vietnam War veteran, lives practically in the shadow of a 40-foot-high pile of radioactive waste abutting his small home outside of Gallup, N.M. Nez has colon cancer, which he treats with herbs — but not with ones growing near his house, because those could be contaminated with uranium.
Thousands of Navajo have developed lung cancer, kidney disease and other serious illnesses linked to uranium mining — Now companies again want to begin mining uranium here again.Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land
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Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was beaten by special forces at the US/Canadian border and suffered a heart attack. Kahentinetha is currently hospitalized in Canada. Katenies, who was accompanying her, was taken to prison at an undisclosed location. Kahentinetha's articles on sovereignty, mining on Indigenous lands, corruption and border rights have made her a priority target of the Canadian government for assassination. Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was beaten by special forces at... more
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Sitting Bull's tribe to regain control of southern Badlands
Nearly 120 years after the last massacre of Native Americans by the United States cavalry at Wounded Knee, some of the lands confiscated from their descendants are to be returned to the Oglala Sioux. Sitting Bull's tribe to regain control of southern Badlands
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