Climate Change Legislation – Will It Happen in 2010?
With Health Care legislation finally passed by Congress and signed by the President, one must ask what next? Does the President have the political capital to successfully move climate change...
View ArticleNational Strategy for Tribal Natural Resources Management
Six months ago, a plan to develop a national strategy for tribal natural resources management was initiated by Arthur “Butch” Blazer of the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society and Gary...
View ArticleNTEC Provides Tribal Recommendations for Green Budget
A number of environmental and conservation groups recently released their annual Green Budget, a report intended to illustrate how an infusion of federal monies for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 can help meet...
View ArticleNTEC Invited to Testify before Congress on FY2011 Appropriations
NTEC accepted an invitation to testify before the House Appropriations Sub-committee on Interior, Environment & Related Agencies on April 15th about the FY2011 Appropriations bill. Written...
View ArticleNTEC & Enviro Groups Call on Congress to Accelerate APA
On May 26, 2010, NTEC joined a coalition of environmental groups in submitting a statement calling upon Congress to accelerate implementation of those portions of the American Power Act (APA) that...
View ArticleWorld Peace and Prayer Day/Honoring Sacred Sites
To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders My Relatives, Time has come to speak to the hearts of our Nations and their Leaders. I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, to come together from the...
View ArticleWhite House Hosts 2010 Tribal Nations Conference
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, December 16, 2010, President Obama will host the White House Tribal Nations Conference. As part of President Obama’s ongoing outreach to the American people, this conference...
View ArticleUS Signals Support for UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
President Obama today announced United States support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The announcement, made during the White House Tribal Nations...
View Article60-Day Comment Period for EPA Tribal Consultation Policy
On December 15, 2010, the EPA announced a 60-day comment period for its Tribal Consultation and Coordination Policy. This policy establishes national guidelines and institutional controls for...
View ArticleEPA Consultation Policy Comment Period Closes on February 16th
Federal Register Notice The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its consultation policy in the Federal Register on December 15, 2010. Comments can be posted online at...
View ArticleCALL TO ACTION: Yakama Indian Reservation Fire Leaves 22+ Families Homeless
A devastating fire that began as a chimney fire Saturday afternoon and continued through the week-end burned the homes of twenty-two families in the Yakama Nation community of White Swan, WA which is...
View ArticleChickaloon Tribe tests UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights over Coal Mine
Posted in Alaska News Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage The Chickaloon tribe is taking its concern over a proposed mine in the Mat Su Valley to an international audience. The Athabascan community near...
View ArticleIndians Join Fight for an Oklahoma Lake's Flow
By FELICITY BARRINGER TUSKAHOMA, Okla. — Sardis Lake, a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma young enough to have drowned saplings still poking through its surface and old enough to have become a...
View ArticleWashington coastal tribe seeking higher ground amid tsunami worries
{jcomments on}LA PUSH, Wash. The Quileute Tribal School is perched just a stone's throw from a rugged ocean beach framed by sea stacks and islands and splashed by powerful waves at this remote...
View ArticleU.S. Tribe Cites Tsunami, 'Twilight' In Bid To Expand
DeAnna Hobson, a Quileute elder, says that she has been warned about a possible tsunami disaster in her dreams.(photo: Tom Banse/Northwest News Network) An Indian tribe in Washington state wants to...
View ArticleIndian water walkers carry 'lifeblood' prayer through Montana
{jcomments on}Originally posted on 4/28/2011 at greatfallstribune.com ESSEX — The bucket of Puget Sound water making its way across the state this week and next comes with a message. "We're...
View ArticleMembers of Maine Wabanaki tribes to walk to Wisconsin to promote clean water
{jcomments on}MACHIASPORT, Maine — Dozens of natives representing the five tribes of the Wabanaki Nation of Maine and Canada will gather at a sacred site in Machiasport next week to begin a monthlong...
View ArticleThe Sacred and the Dead
{jcomments on}Posted on Huffington Post.com How do values enter politics? The Bolivian national legislature, pressured by a movement of indigenous people and small farmers, may be about to birth a...
View ArticleSenate Committee on Indian Affairs holds hearing on impact of stereotypes of...
(reprinted from Canadaviews.ca, May 19, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held an oversight hearing today on racist depictions of Native peoples in American society and...
View ArticleCrow Tribal Member addresses UN
(reprinted from Cherokee One Feather, May 20, 2011) Crow Tribal Member Donald “Del” Laverdure, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior, addressed the UN on Thursday, May 19. (DOI Photo)...
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