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WEBA billionaire-backed company will continue sowing support, while residents weigh their options. Erin X. Wong September 17, 2024. States own lands on reservations. To use them, tribes have to pay ...
How, 150 years ago, the Homestead Act transformed the West
WEBDec 9, 2012 · This year marks the 150th anniversary of the fruit of Jefferson’s conviction — the 1862 Homestead Act. The federal law changed the West forever by providing a new start for urban emigrants ...
Trump’s impact on Indian Country over four years
WEBDec 16, 2020 · When President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, many tribal leaders took a wait-and-see approach, given his poor record on Indigenous affairs. Four years later, Indian Country has ...
Reckoning with History: The legacy of lynching in the West
WEBJul 13, 2018 · In his provocatively imagined and deeply researched visual history, “Lynching in the West: 1850-1935,” artist Ken Gonzales-Day compiled known lynchings in California from statehood until the ...
Fire is driving animals’ evolution - High Country News
WEBFeb 1, 2024 · Fire kills some animals but helps others survive, thereby determining which animal’s genes are passed on to future generations. The process of some individuals surviving better than others is ...
A reality check on Biden’s ‘30 by 30’ conservation plan
WEBJun 23, 2021 · A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed an executive order that announced his commitment to protecting 30% of U.S. land and water — over 720 million acres — by 2030. The move ...
Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
WEBJan 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande used to provide water on a bell curve, with powerful floods in the spring and summer and lower and slower flows in the winter. Now the dams release about 20% of what naturally ...
How Indigenous voters swung the 2020 election - High Country …
WEBNov 6, 2020 · As of Nov. 9, the three counties that overlap with the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation went for Biden at a rate of 57%, as opposed to 51% statewide. Voter precincts on the Navajo Nation ranged from ...
How ‘pretendians’ undermine the rights of Indigenous people
WEBApr 2, 2019 · By claiming indigeneity without the recognition of Native nations, pretendians undermine a core tenant of tribal sovereignty: the ability for tribes to determine citizenship. “They are attacking ...
The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
WEBMay 18, 2020 · The year was 2017, the month was August. America was 241 years old, and totems of its racist past were crumbling. One of the Northwest’s largest tributes to Confederate soldiers — an 8-foot ...
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