Indianz.Com > News > Native America Calling: In the rush to build green energy, tribes sometimes lose
Native America Calling: In the rush to build green energy, tribes sometimes lose
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
In the rush to build green energy, tribes sometimes lose
There’s a driving demand for more renewable energy projects such as wind and solar.
In the rush to build, important cultural resources are threatened. The news outlet ProPublica wrote about an instance in Washington state where an archaeological survey paid for by the wind developers failed to list potential cultural sites that were obvious to state regulators.
Tribes in Arizona are at odds with a solar project that would put a power transmission line across traditional cultural places.
Join Native America Calling to look at the intersection of sustainable energy and sacred and important sites.
Guests on Native America Calling
B. “Toastie” Oaster (citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), staff writer at High Country News
Noah Oliver, geographer and archaeologist for the Yakama Nation’s Cultural Resources Program
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan, and Hidatsa), director of tribal collaboration, outreach, and advocacy for Archaeology Southwest
John Welch, director of the landscape and site protection program at Archaeology Southwest and archaeology professor at Simon Fraser University
Native America Calling
Listen to Native America Calling every weekday at 1pm Eastern.
Search
Filed Under
Tags
More Headlines
Press Release: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs announces Republican majority staff
MSU News: American Indian Council hosts 49th annual powwow
People’s World: Indigenous coalition celebrates release of Leonard Peltier
Montana Free Press: Indian lawmakers tout legislative successes
VIDEO: Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Indian Education
Cronkite News: Navajo entrepreneurs find success thanks to business incubator
Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Marcie Rendon and Dennis Staples
‘Demoralizing’: Lawsuit blasts Trump administration for firings at tribal colleges
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (March 17, 2025)
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation makes housing a priority for our health
Native America Calling: Science excellence among Native students
Native America Calling: Five years of COVID-19
Native America Calling: Decades of funding neglect is causing serious problems for rural Alaska school buildings
Native America Calling: High-profile cases increase pressure to better protect Indigenous women
Native America Calling: How federal cuts affect Native veterans
More Headlines
MSU News: American Indian Council hosts 49th annual powwow
People’s World: Indigenous coalition celebrates release of Leonard Peltier
Montana Free Press: Indian lawmakers tout legislative successes
VIDEO: Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Indian Education
Cronkite News: Navajo entrepreneurs find success thanks to business incubator
Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Marcie Rendon and Dennis Staples
‘Demoralizing’: Lawsuit blasts Trump administration for firings at tribal colleges
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (March 17, 2025)
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation makes housing a priority for our health
Native America Calling: Science excellence among Native students
Native America Calling: Five years of COVID-19
Native America Calling: Decades of funding neglect is causing serious problems for rural Alaska school buildings
Native America Calling: High-profile cases increase pressure to better protect Indigenous women
Native America Calling: How federal cuts affect Native veterans
More Headlines