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Environmental journalist Terri Hansen reporting climate change, violent storms, disease l health, environmental justice, resilience l sustainable communities, culture l land, Native American and Indigenous environmental issues.
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Bushmen denied water, launch appeal
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President’s Cancer Panel emphasizes environmental causes of cancer
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Human rights journalist exposes group stalking, secret torture of everyday citizens
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2010′s Extreme Weather Teaching Us Climate Lessons
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The Weekly Mulch
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Proposals of “Peoples Agreement” included in texts for UN negotiations
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Native American scientist discovers ancient stress hormone that may help save the Pacific lamprey
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NAJA’s 2010 Media Awards – Indian Country Today wins six
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SEJ announces winners of Reporting on the Environment awards
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Athabascan, other groups appeal DNR’s approval of coal exploration in Alaska’s Wishbone Hills
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Indigenous rights: Maya in Belize, San in Botswana both get ambiguous outcomes in court
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Yakama blocks Hawaiian garbage destined for ancestral lands
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Canoe Journey’s successful end celebrated among Northwest Coast tribes
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EPA Creates New ‘Tribal Climate and Energy Information’ Site
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Is California trampling on tribal rights?
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Iroquois Nationals salute FIL World Lacrosse Championships
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Eulogy for renowned climate scientist Stephen Schneider
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BP’s deepsea well is capped. Now, the Houma are left to face their greatest challenge
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England says “no” to Iroquois Nationals on travel waiver
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Iroquois Nationals have not withdrawn from championships
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In Kenya, national politics of Mau Forests Complex trickle down to Ogiek
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Klamath Restoration Begins
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Iroquois Nationals still waiting for British officals to review applications for entry
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Passport fiasco creates critical delay for Iroquois lacrosse team bound for World Games
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Over 2000 references and citations pre-1972 on bio-effects of radio frequency and microwave radiation
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California’s Marine Life Protected Areas process scapegoating native cultures, tribal members say
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Founder of Turtle Lodge to open G8 World Religions Summit
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Klamath Restoration Begins
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Gulf oil disaster propels tribes into crisis
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Alaska welcomes home Native art for exhibition from Smithsonian museums
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Karuk Tribe, conservation groups sue Six Rivers National Forest to protect sacred sites
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Tribes prepare for impacts of climate change
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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Hits Louisiana—But How Far Away is the Next Disaster?
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International Funders for Indigenous Peoples celebrates 10 years of growing philanthropy
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Canadian First Nations and investors draw line in the tar sands with Shell
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Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award Open for Nominations
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And you thought getting locked out of Twitter was rough. Try Facebook.
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Tornadoes sweep through Oklahoma, impact tribal communities
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Journalists call out to federal agencies: what’s to hide?
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International Funders for Indigenous Peoples visit Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations, Vancouver Island May 15-17
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Massive environmental crisis grows in Gulf
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Indegenous Peoples’ Declaration: Mother Earth can live without us, but we can’t live without her
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Climate’s Second Chance: the World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change
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Bolivia: THE PEOPLES AGREEMENT
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Scientific weather data meets traditional Inuit knowledge
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EARTH DAY 2010 Campaign – April 22, 2010
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The New Energy Future in Indian Country
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NEW BOOK One Small Sacrifice: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects
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U.S. critical of Botswana’s mistreatment of Bushmen
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UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples to consider indigenous peoples local adaptation and mitigation
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In this street fight, climate scientists stand their ground
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Opening new water facilities a milestone in journey to Elwha River restoration
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April is Disaster Preparedness Month
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New federal task force climate change report parallels Swinomish Tribe report
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Climate change STEM curriculum started in tribal colleges
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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians one of first to choose LED lighting for town’s streets
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Outlaw nonconsensual human experiments now | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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“Dealing in Doubt” describes 20 years of organized attacks on climate science
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New EPA office of International and Tribal Affairs
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IPCC Underestimated Climate Change Impacts, Experts Say
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Climatologists targeted by climate deniers with hate mail, death threats
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Poster of teenage Native filmmakers used in hate crime
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Historic agreements aim to mend Klamath waters divide
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Pesticide exposure robs Yaqui girls of breastfeeding
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Delegates lack skills to defend rights of indigenous peoples
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Coastal First Nations report leads way to stay the course and stay alive
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Maori arts fuse with Pacific Northwest tribal cultures
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National Stalking Awareness Month spotlights shocking crime that strikes Native Americans more than others
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Brave … and dead
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First UN ‘State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples’ report alarming
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Wes Studi: Protect the Circle of Life, Get the Flu Vaccination for H1N1
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Hydrochloric Acid (Hydrogen Chloride)
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Fox alters RNC’s Michael Steele’s pejorative to “honest engine”
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Frigid Temperatures Bring Health Risks
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It’s National Stalking Awareness Month: Native Americans stalked more than other ethnicities
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International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change to COP15
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Protected: Organized Vigilante Stalking: the hidden evil
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The fallout at Copenhagen for Indigenous Peoples: What happened? What didn’t?
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Heart of Dryness: Climate Change Coping Strategies
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UN climate summit ends with non-binding ‘Copenhagen Accord’
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Naga community voice at Copenhagen
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American Indians at higher risk of H1N1 death, now designated a priority group
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Audio
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25 countries signed on to Copenhagen Accord, all 2 1/2 pages
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Climate talks stall on Day 10 amid eruptions by protesters
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IEN: Indigenous People Demand More in Copenhagen
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Developing nations walk away from climate talks
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Copenhagen brings indigenous climate change issues to world stage
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COP15 calling attention to indigenous rights
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Klimaforum09 Peoples Declaration finalized, open to signatures until Dec. 13
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Beginning Saturday, LIVE coverage from Copenhagen
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Indigenous delegates from Australia head to Copenhagen
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Indigenous delegates at UN climate talks debut video evidence of climate change
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Climate change transforming Navajo’s dunescape to dust bowl
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With an eye on Copenhagen, indigenous groups talk climate change
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Mystic Lake Declaration: Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Workshop II
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Listen to the Earth, say Indigenous peoples
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Arctic peoples claim their right to cold temperatures
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Arctic Inuit to charge U.S. for climate change
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Native peoples crafting climate change declaration for the U.N. at Copenhagen
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Faster population growth ups climate change effect, UN report says
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International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change Anchorage Declaration 2009
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Road to Copenhagen: From Papua with hope
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Agenda for Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Workshop, Nov. 18-21
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Pacific Northwest coastal tribes facing climate change disruptions
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Report Calls for the Rejection of REDD in Climate Treaty
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Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
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Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual
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Leadership award recognizes Alan Parker for uniting traditional ecological knowledge and scientific disciplines
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White House Tribal Nations Conference
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Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, and the Way Forward
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Guide to caring for flu sick family
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Natural advice for staying well this flu season
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The Science of 350, the Most Important Number on the Planet
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To officials, the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine is just good sense
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2009-H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine on its way to IHS clinics, ETA October 7
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2009 H1N1: What To Do If You Get Sick
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The Society of Environmental Journalists – on Twitter!
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Legislation to protect Colorado River starts journey through Congress
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Microwaves, the down side of convenience
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U.S. Intelligence Community Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights Violations
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Through-the-Wall technology gets into the wrong hands: criminals
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Opening the Gates on Ion Channel Drugs
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Native Americans at higher risk from H1N1 swine flu, Obama’s experts warn
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Flu risk for indigenous peoples
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Press Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic Flu
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Having one less child dramatically reduces your CO2, new study finds
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$100 million in Recovery Act Funds to improve Native American housing
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Schoolyard to wildlife habitat aids environmental education
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Champion of Native American public health
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Exotic beetle killing ash trees central to Native lives, culture
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Native Hawaiian voyaging canoe visits PNW coastal nations
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Safe and Well List
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Message from White House: Prepare for fall/winter flu season
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Alaskan native villages to receive $27.9 million Recovery Act Funds to improve water services
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Inaugural award highlights archaeologist’s 1978 stance on reburying Native remains
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Archaeological find could prove humans here 37,000 years before Clovis
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Flu spotlight on Canada as H1N1 swine flu sweeps Inuit and First Nations
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Opinion: Canada’s shame found in poor treatment of First Nations people
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Hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, disease outbreaks – how ready are you?
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H1N1 swine flu in 52 states and territories, Indian Country cases emerge
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Whatever you call this flu, you don’t want to get it
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Natural disasters hit tribes across the country in 2008
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Klamath Tribes set to regain 90,000 acres of homeland
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First deaths from Ike in La.’s Terrebonne Parish Native communities
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United Houma Nation communities bear brunt of Gustav
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Gustav hits Louisiana tribes
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Sovereign immunity on trial
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Disappearance of indigenous baby boys tied to industrial pollution
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Yakama Nation buys Lyle Point, ending decades-long struggle over fishing rights
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Udall Legacy Tour highlights Native American projects across the country
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Successful appeal to keep hiking trail off burial ground disregarded by port district
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Celilo Falls Legacy Blog Launched
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EPA fines Ag Air for use of toxic pesticide on Yakama lands
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Call for submissions: Indigenous Wisdom, Enduring Love – Reclaiming the Teachings of Our Ancestors
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Francis posthumously awarded Lifetime Achievement Award
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Prepaid Mental Health Care Plan for Native Americans/Alaskan Natives
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Author of “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” dead at 94
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766 and counting: Yellowstone buffalo dying to be free
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Deregulation report threat to thirteen Columbia River Basin tribes, wildlife and salmon
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Nez Perce return home
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EPA picks national American Indian Environmental Office head
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Klamath Nation fighting for treaty rights on federal forest lands
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Army Corp of Engineers to replace Columbia River fishing sites lost to dams
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Sho-Bans block train carrying nuclear waste
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Ecocide in Indian Country
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The Changing Face of the West
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Chlorine Ban: To Be or Not to Be?
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EPA establishes new office to strengthen tribal operations
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Coeur d’Alene Tribe want to clean up 100 years of mining poison
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Pacific Northwest salmon in crisis
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Speaking for the Earth: Lummi Nation calls together world indigenous leaders
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Nez Perce to oversee transplanted wolves
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Saving ‘Brother Wolf’
