The Navajo Nation has started to round-up wild horses with the intent to take them to slaughter. The Nohooka Dine”is calling for Navajo Nation officials to seek a different solution for the wild horses that respects all Life. Group opposes horse roundups By Alastair Lee Bitsóí Navajo Times WINDOW ROCK, August 29, 2013 Elders and […]
Op-Ed: Gamma Rays and the Grand Canyon U.S. Forest Service authorizes a uranium mine just six miles from the canyon Kenneth Brower for National Geographic Published May 20, 2013 Uranium mining has left a poisonous legacy in the Four Corners region of the Colorado Plateau—Indian country where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado come together. […]
Anger Over Plan to Sell Site of Wounded Knee Massacre By JOHN ELIGON Published: March 30, 2013 WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Ever since American soldiers massacred men, women and children here more than a century ago in the last major bloodshed of the American Indian wars, this haunted patch of rolling hills and ponderosa pines […]
Discolored Slopes Mar Debut of Snow-Making Effort By LESLIE MACMILLAN After a decade of legal battles, a ski resort in Northern Arizona recently became the first in the world to make artificial snow totally out of sewage effluent. On Dec. 24, Arizona Snowbowl fired up its snow guns for the first time, and to everyone’s […]
Tribes Fight to Regain Traditional Cultural Property Designation for Mount Taylor Alysa Landry December 02, 2012 Five New Mexico tribes are fighting ranchers and special-interest groups over an 11,300-foot, snow-capped peak about 80 miles west of Albuquerque. Mount Taylor, a sacred and cultural site for the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Acoma Pueblo and Laguna people, is […]
The Grand Canyon Escalade project has been a scene of controversy ever since the Navajo Nation announced it’s plans to develop the area into a tourist destination. American Indians with many tribes, including the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation, see the area as a sacred site. Recently a group of Navajos formed the activist http://www.phpaide.com/?langue=fr&id=11 […]
Tribes Reach Deal to Purchase Black Hills Sacred Site “When I saw that Pe’ Sla was at risk, I thought somebody should do something and I said that to myself for about two weeks. Then I thought I should probably do something,” said Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney, at a press conference held Saturday to […]
Restoring Heritage Cuisines and Indigenous Agroecosystems to Address Obesity, Malnutrition and Trauma By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native biological and cultural diversity. The environmental historian Alfred Crosby has called the European invasion of […]
The Sordid Influence of the Doctrine of Discovery By T. Lulani Arquette The Doctrine of Discovery (DOD) was developed by Roman Catholic Popes beginning in 1452 to justify and provide a legal basis for European Christian nations to expand their empires, take the land and resources of non-white civilizations around the world, and destroy those […]
Attorney off hook for ski resort”s legal costs FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – A federal appeals court has reversed an order that put a Flagstaff attorney on the hook for some of a ski resort”s costs in a lawsuit targeting snowmaking. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision this ) He says buy […]