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Senate panel approves Navajo Nation water rights bill (05/08)
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee unanimously approved S.1171, a bill to settle the water rights of the Navajo Nation, on Wednesday. The bill recognizes the tribe's right to about 600,000 acre-feet of the San Juan River in New...
Fire on Mescalero Reservation mostly contained (05/07)
A fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico has been 65 percent contained as of Tuesday. Crews from multiple agencies have held the fire steady at 3,860 acres. More than 450 firefighters were battling the blaze, which...
Three more tribes win EPA approval for water (05/06)
Three more tribes have won Environmental Protection Agency approval to develop their own water quality standards under the Clean Water Act. Approval of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin, the Swinomish Tribe of Washington and...
Yakama Nation weighs ban on new dairy feedlots (05/06)
The Yakama Nation of Washington will study the impact on feedlots and dairies before deciding whether to ban new development on the reservation. At a general council meeting last week, tribal members voted in favor of a moratorium on new...
Crews battle fire on Mescalero Apache Reservation (05/06)
More than 450 firefighters from multiple agencies are battling a blaze on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico. The fire burned about 4,000 acres of forest and wild land on the reservation. It was about 45 percent...
Fire burns on Mescalero Apache Reservation (05/05)
A fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico has burned about 3,000 acres. The fire started last Thursday. About 200 residents were ordered to evacuate but were allowed to return home after the threat subsided. Still, the...
County opposes protections for sacred Mount Taylor (05/01)
Commissioners in Cibola County, New Mexico, voted 4-1 against listing the sacred Mount Taylor on the state Register of Cultural Properties. More than 200 people turned out for a county meeting on the issue. Acoma Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, Zuni...
Yakama Nation backs Columbia River agreement (05/01)
The Yakama Nation of Washington will be signing a $900 million agreement for the Columbia River after all. Tribal leaders were supposed to go to Columbia Hills State Park for a signing ceremony yesterday morning. But they didn't show up...
BLM rejects geothermal leases at sacred Mount Shasta (05/01)
The Bureau of Land Management has rejected five lease applications for geothermal development on Mount Shasta in California. The BLM rejected the leases because the U.S. Forest Service objected. The Forest Service said the development would have "adverse impacts to...
Gila River Tribe opposes freeway path (04/30)
The Gila River Indian Community of Arizona says a proposed freeway path would destroy sacred land. The Arizona Department of Transportation wants a portion of the South Mountain Freeway to run through the reservation. But the tribal council passed a...
Judge gives Interior deadline on polar bear listing (04/30)
A federal judge on Monday ordered theInterior Department to make a decision on listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. Judge Claudia Wilken said the Bush administration violated the law by delaying a decision. She gave a...
Federal judge won't close reservation trailer park (04/29)
A federal judge on Monday gave the operator of a trailer park on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Reservation in California 90 days to make improvements at the troubled facility. Judge Stephen G. Larson said he was "not interested"...
Tribes receive slaughtered Yellowstone bison (04/25)
Tribes in Montana, Michigan, North Dakota and Wyoming are among those that have received meat from slaughtered bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park. More than one-third of the Yellowstone herd has been killed this winter. That's left over...
Joe Kennedy addresses Navajo Nation Council (04/25)
Former U.S. Congressman Joe Kennedy, the son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, addressed the Navajo Nation Council on Wednesday. Kennedy discussed a wide range of topics, particularly renewable energy. In 1979, he founded Citizens Energy, a non-profit...
Spirit Lake Nation dedicates waste station (04/25)
The Spirit Lake Nation of North Dakota dedicated a $2.2 million solid waste transfer station on Thursday. The station means the tribe won't have to haul waste 13 miles away to Devils Lake. The reservation's dump closed back in 1997....
Pueblo settles case over ceremonies at ski resort (04/24)
Nambe Pueblo has settled a lawsuit over ceremonies at a ski resort in the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. The tribe initially sued to stop the construction of a chairlift at Ski Santa Fe. That didn't happen but...
Yankton Sioux parents file suit over hog farm (04/24)
Parents of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota filed a lawsuit in federal courts on Wednesday aimed at stopping a hog farm in Charles Mix County. The Head Start Concerned Parents want Long View Farms to comply with environmental...
Arrests made at Yankton Sioux hog farm protest (04/23)
South Dakota state police arrested 17 members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe who are protesting a hog farm in Charles Mix County. The 17 were charged with disorderly conduct for blocking a Bureau of Indian Affairs road that leads...
Yankton Sioux Tribe hosts meeting on hog farm (04/22)
The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota hosted a meeting on a controversial hog farm under construction in Charles Mix County. Several hundred people attended the meeting, The Yankton Press and Dakotan reported. Many of them were tribal members...
Makah judge won't dismiss illegal whaling case (04/21)
A judge for the Makah Nation of Washington has refused to dismiss charges against three men who hunted a gray whale without tribal or federal approval. Frankie Gonzales, Theron Parker and William Secor Sr. pleaded guilty in federal court to...
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