Hawaiian Round World Voyage Visits Everglades Park Everglades Nation Park, FL. — A traditional Hawaiian voyaging canoe arrived Saturday morning offshore from Everglades National Park in Everglades City on part of its world tour. Southwest Florida Online
National Park Service Does Face-Plant With New Rule on Gathering Plants Michelle Tirado 8/20/15 The National Park Service may have thought it was doing Native Americans a favor with a proposed rule that would allow them to gather traditional and medicinal plants in national parks, but there are not a lot of “thanks” coming out […]
Indigenous Leaders Want Pope Francis To Rescind Bull Justifying Imperialism The Doctrine of Discovery, which allowed taking indigenous land 500 years ago, still underpins Indian law in the U.S. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-francis-doctrine-of-discovery_56058eb9e4b0dd8503076c17
FOLIO NEWS RESIST 450 In St. Augustine, indigenous groups want the city’s big anniversary celebration to tell a more inclusive story http://folioweekly.com/RESIST-450,13498
COUNCIL_FORMAL_STATEMENT_UN_CLIMATE_SUMMIT -ADDENDUM TO- Indigenous Elders And Medicine Peoples Council Statement Fukushima Beyond Climate Change to Survival on Sacred Mother Earth United Nations – September 21, 2014 All Creation has a right to live and survive on this Sacred Earth and raise their Families where the Creator placed them to be. The Creator created the People of […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 15, 2013 Dine’ Traditional Leaders Express Concern that Navajo Nation Agreement to Stop Horse Slaughter – While a Step in the Right Direction – May Not Adequately Address Issues Pertaining to the Protection of Indigenous Rights and Deeply Held Spiritual Beliefs (KAYENTA, AZ) – For months, Dine’ (Navajo) elders and medicine […]
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 […]