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 […]
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, urged today the United States Government and the local and state authorities in South Dakota to address concerns expressed by the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples about an impending private land sale in the Black Hills region of the central-northern […]
Right-Wing Judges Seek to Close the Courthouse Doors to Public Interest Claims Bennet Kelley Columnist, Radio Host, Political Analyst and Internet Lawyer Imagine if, prior to arguing Brown v. Board of Education on behalf of the NAACP, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall instead had been forced by pro-Jim Crow judges to pay substantial penalties […]