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President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s Indian Country achievements as he prepares to visit a tribe in Arizona.
Cronkite News: Experts examine climate crisis and cancer disparities (October 23, 2024)
Indigenous communities across the Southwest face adversities that stem from historical marginalization. 
‘Once in a generation investments’: Funding helps tribes with energy needs (September 5, 2024)
The Biden administration is on the road as the November presidential election quickly approaches, touting historic levels of funding going to Indian Country. 
Grist: Rez dogs are feeling the heat from climate change (August 12, 2024)
As global temperatures rise and events like wildfires become more extreme, the stakes are rising for Native communities and their animals. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 22, 2024)
Make California your next trip for #NAFOAFall2024, NAFOA’s fall conference! 
“Just because a scientist says something doesn’t mean it’s true,” a first-term Republican lawmaker said.
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds Indigenous people suffer a higher percentage of heat-related deaths than any other population.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation takes the lead for our environment (April 22, 2024)
Cherokee Nation is leading by example to foster a sustainable future, both locally and globally, for generations to come. 
Native America Calling: Earth Day assessment for Native peoples (April 22, 2024)
Native people face a six-fold increased risk of flash floods because of climate change in the next two years, according to a new study. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (February 20, 2024)
NAFOA stays on top of the news so you always start your week informed and ready. 
The Conversation: Indigenous activists targeted even after leaving Russia (February 6, 2024)
Indigenous activists are fleeing Russia because of growing repression. 
Tribes taken Biden administration to court over $4 billion energy project (January 24, 2024)
The Biden administration’s renewable energy agenda is being tested in court with a lawsuit from tribes opposed to a $4 billion development that runs through their homelands. 
Native America Calling: Native in the Spotlight with Daniel Wildcat (January 18, 2024)
Author, historian and Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat believes in the power of Indigenous knowledge to counter big problems. 
VIDEO: Tribal Homelands and Climate Change at White House Tribal Nations Summit (December 11, 2023)
Tribal leaders and federal officials participate in a panel on tribal homelands and climate change at the White House Tribal Nations Summit on December 6, 2023. 
Native America Calling: Assessing the White House Tribal Nations Summit (December 11, 2023)
In the wake of the White House Tribal Nations Summit, Native America Calling talks with tribal leaders about the Biden administration’s track record. 
Secretary Haaland opens third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit (December 6, 2023)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland delivers remarks at the opening of the third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit. 
Cronkite News: Native youth come together for annual White House Forum (November 28, 2023)
The third annual White House Tribal Youth Forum brought more than 100 Native and indigenous youth together to share information on the issues affecting their communities. 
Cronkite News: Prescribed burn projects protect federal forest lands (November 6, 2023)
Through the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Forest Service will receive $5 billion over 10 years, including $1.8 billion that will be used to increase forest treatments in Western states. 
Native America Calling: The next generation of Indigenous fire practitioners (November 3, 2023)
The increase in unprecedented damage from wildfires knows no boundaries and international Indigenous fire management experts see global participation as a solution. 
Native America Calling: Native climate warriors turn to the courts (October 10, 2023)
Young climate activists are zeroing in on environmental protections built into a handful of state constitutions as the basis for lawsuits to combat climate change. 
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe is speaking out after a viral video showed outsiders being removed from a highway in an incident that took place during one of the busiest times on the reservation.
DVIDS: Lower Brule Sioux Tribe protects homelands from climate change (August 16, 2023)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District recently completed an $11.6 million project in partnership with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe to address erosion of shoreline banks. 
DVIDS: Shoalwater Bay Tribe addresses impacts of climate change (February 13, 2023)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partnered with the Shoalwater Bay Tribe to restore the Shoalwater Bay Dune before the first major storm of the season. 
Native America Calling: The cost of climate change (December 15, 2022)
The Native village of Newtok in Alaska is losing its battle with climate change. 
Native America Calling: Saving and healing forests (November 14, 2022)
Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce speaks with tribal forestry directors about working with government agencies and the threats facing forests. 
Native America Calling: Traditions and complications in hunting season (November 7, 2022)
Many Native hunters have mastered big game hunting, providing for themselves and their families. 
Native America Calling: Alaska’s unprecedented snow crab population collapse (October 24, 2022)
Alaska’s snow crab season is cancelled for the first time ever after a mass die-off all but wiped out the crustaceans. 
Native America Calling: Assessing the toll from Alaska’s historic storm (September 22, 2022)
A major storm battered a 1,000 mile stretch of Alaska’s western coastline. Find out how Native communities are being affected. 
Native America Calling: The Dust Bowl and Native displacement (September 21, 2022)
Today on Native America Calling, Andi Murphy reflects on the Dust Bowl’s legacy among Native people. 
Tribal leaders are looking forward to addressing climate change and improving economic conditions in their communities through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Harold Frazier: Honor sacred promises to our Native Sovereign Nations (September 13, 2022)
Mni Wiconi means water is life, and no one will silence our Native peoples. 
Native America Calling: How the Inflation Reduction Act helps Earth (August 23, 2022)
The newly-signed Inflation Reduction Act brings millions of dollars in new investments for tribal nations. 
The newly-signed Inflation Reduction Act will bring more than $720 million to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, according to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
Native America Calling: Saving the migratory Monarch butterfly (August 12, 2022)
Tribes are among those helping to protect the monarch butterfly, for both cultural and environmental reasons. 
Native America Calling: Housing security in the Arctic (August 10, 2022)
A film crew follows an Inuit and Gwich’in hunter as he builds a traditional Inuvialuit log cabin off the grid. 
Democrats are claiming an election season achievement with the passage of a massive bill that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in climate and energy investments in Indian Country.
Fort Belknap landowners see another round of Cobell buy-back offers (August 1, 2022)
Landowners from the Fort Belknap Indian Community have until August 12 to accept offers from the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 11, 2022)
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Once again, Indigenous communities like mine are treated as a commodity to be extracted rather than human beings in a natural world, both deserving of respect and protection.
Doug George-Kanentiio: Indigenous peoples continue to endure (June 16, 2022)
We can see that the Americans are engaged in vicious cycles of self destruction.
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