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Indian Country set for big and busy week on Capitol Hill (July 22, 2024)
Indian Country is set for a busy week in the nation’s capital, coming after the GOP convention and the end of Democratic President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. 
“Just because a scientist says something doesn’t mean it’s true,” a first-term Republican lawmaker said.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a legislative hearing on July 10, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a legislative hearing on July 10, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is getting back to work with a hearing on four bills.
For the first time, the federal government has acknowledged the historic and ongoing devastation caused to tribes by dams in the Pacific Northwest.
Native America Calling: Historic steps to return tribal land (June 26, 2024)
Efforts continue at the national and local level to return land to tribes, the original stewards. 
Montana Free Press: Blackfeet Nation responds to water crisis (June 24, 2024)
The Blackfeet Nation and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will work together to address the impacts of a water system failure on the reservation in Montana. 
The U.S. Senate considers S.1987, the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act, on June 20, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on June 12, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on June 12, 2024.
The House Committee on Appropriations is hearing from dozens of Indian Country leaders who are testifying about their funding needs.
As it deteriorates, the ecosystem around the Salton Sea in California, has been creating a toxic environment that hurts the health of Indigenous and immigrant communities.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (April 22, 2024)
Show some love for the Earth that sustains us. Happy Earth Day! 
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: The state of Native agriculture on The Menu (March 29, 2024)
What’s on The Menu? The state of Native agriculture, wild onion season and Native matriarchs. 
The Gila River Indian Community plans to work directly with federal officials to develop its own proposal for water sharing on the Colorado River.
Four states and six tribes in the Colorado River Basin are working on what could be a historic agreement — if it happens at all.
Two recent events are major wins for tribes fighting to restore natural salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest.
KUNC: Water projects blocked due to opposition on Navajo Nation (February 21, 2024)
Federal energy officials took the unusual step of denying permits to several pumped hydropower projects proposed on the Navajo Nation, citing a new policy that gives tribes a greater voice in projects on their lands. 
Witness list and testimony for Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing (February 8, 2024)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking testimony on five bills. 
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs set for first hearing of new year (February 5, 2024)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is hosting its first hearing of 2024.
Cronkite News: Water project on Navajo Nation sees controversy (January 15, 2024)
When Adrian Herder saw the plans for a hydropower project on the Navajo Nation, he was shocked by the “outrageous” amounts of water the project would reportedly use. 
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. 
Native America Calling: The trouble finding safe drinking water (November 21, 2023)
There is no more basic need than clean drinking water. That’s a need that the Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska has been lacking since 2019. 
Cronkite News: Tohono O’odham Nation criticizes border wall construction (November 2, 2023)
The leader of the Tohono O’odham said construction of a border wall on his tribe’s territory has caused irreversible damage. 
Cronkite News: Tribes share frustrations with infrastructure funding (October 31, 2023)
Promises of federal funding remain just that – promises – for smaller tribes for whom the money is inaccessible because of bureaucratic and financial hurdles. 
Government records shed new light on how state opposition hindered tribes from claiming their rightful shares of the Colorado River.
Cronkite News: Water catchments bring life to wildlife in Arizona (October 16, 2023)
At the center of all life is water. But, for wildlife in the hot deserts of Arizona, finding it isn’t so easy. 
Cronkite News: Senate committee looks at water in Indian Country (September 28, 2023)
The Navajo Nation Council is 100 years old this year – and the Navajo Nation’s fight for water access has been going on for at least that long. 
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on ‘Water as a Trust Resource’ (September 26, 2023)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing on water in Native communities on September 27, 2023. 
Cronkite News: Senate committee takes up water infrastructure in Indian Country (September 21, 2023)
The infusion of federal money for infrastructure projects is only a first step toward fixing deep problems with water systems on tribal lands. 
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. 
Native America Calling: How tribes brought about a historic dam removal (August 15, 2023)
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is taking place in the Klamath River basin. Tribes were instrumental in making it happen. 
As dangerous smoke cast an ominous shadow over the nation’s capital, tribes and their advocates continue to wait for a series of monumental decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Republican lawmaker who was unable to derail Deb Haaland’s historic rise to Secretary of the Interior had somewhat of a meltdown as he came face-to-face with the Native woman trailblazer.
Efforts to strengthen the Indian Arts and Crafts Act are drawing widespread attention as tribes seek a major — and controversial — change to a law designed to protect Native artists from frauds.
Native America Calling: Indigenous resistance to deep-sea mining (April 17, 2023)
Researchers and environmental advocates don’t know much yet about mining minerals off the bottom of the ocean floor but the race is on for development. 
White Earth Nation responds to verdict in sexual harassment case (April 11, 2023)
The White Earth Nation says it is developing an ethics code after hearing a “litany of concerns” about a prominent figure who has benefited from the tribe’s name for more than three decades.
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