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	<title>Mother Earth Journal &#187; land</title>
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	<description>Mother Earth Journal &#124; Environmental journalism &#124; Terri Hansen reporting: Environment &#124; Science &#38;  Traditional Knowledge &#124; Climate, Sustainability &#38; Adaptation &#124; Environmental Health. For complete environmental coverage read This Week From Indian Country or visit Indian Country Today Media Network</description>
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		<title>Conserving Biodiversity Benefits World’s Impoverished Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/conserving-biodiversity-benefits-worlds-impoverished-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protecting land for biodiversity conservation delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world's most impoverished people, yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are at risk of failing, since this 'natural capital' is grossly undervalued in the global marketplace.
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		<title>Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest herd plummets</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's largest reindeer herd, which roams the vast tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada has plummeted in size. The local indigenous people blame the spread of massive industrial projects in the area.]]></description>
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		<title>Squaxin Island Tribe and Cities Strike Deal on Deschutes River Habitat Restoration</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Squaxin Island Tribe and the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Yelm in Washington State are establishing the Deschutes Watershed Environmental Stewardship Coalition to focus on on-the-ground habitat restoration projects to jumpstart salmon productivity in the Deschutes River watershed.

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		<title>Shoreline Modifications Contribute to Salmon Loss and Decline in Western Washington</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/15/shoreline-modifications-contribute-significantly-to-salmon-loss-and-decline-in-western-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/15/shoreline-modifications-contribute-significantly-to-salmon-loss-and-decline-in-western-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piling on Puget Sound, a three-part series by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission looks at how shoreline modifications – seawalls, bulkheads, docks, boat ramps and the like that eat up another mile of Puget Sound shoreline every year contribute significantly to the loss and decline of salmon and their habitat.
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		<title>Penan Hunter-Gatherers Pushed From Rainforest to Make Way for Dam</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Malaysian government is moving more than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers out of their rainforest home against their will to make way for the controversial Murum hydroelectric dam, the first in a series of twelve that will flood Penan and other indigenous villages.]]></description>
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		<title>Philanthropists and Indigenous Leaders Talk Solutions to World&#8217;s Pressing Issues</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential philanthropists and Indigenous leaders met last month at the tenth conference of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, and came up with innovative solutions based on thousands of years of ancestral knowledge to some of the world's most pressing problems.]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Giant ConocoPhillips Pulls Out of Controversial Amazon Project</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/14/oil-giant-conocophillips-pulls-out-of-controversial-amazon-project/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/14/oil-giant-conocophillips-pulls-out-of-controversial-amazon-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global outrage over the risk oil companies pose to the lives of two uncontacted tribes in the northern Peruvian Amazon prompted the U.S. ConocoPhillips to pull out of the controversial oil block.]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Peoples of Africa the Focus of Second Congressional Human Rights Meeting</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second in a series of unprecedented meetings hosted by the U.S. Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will focus solely on the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, just as they emerge into the social consensus of several African states after their very existence was denied for decades. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brutal Attack on Endangered Tribe</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/06/brutal-attack-on-endangered-tribe/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/06/brutal-attack-on-endangered-tribe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man from the Jarawa tribe in India's Andaman Islands and one of the world's most endangered tribes was seriously wounded while trying to stop intruders intent on hunting his tribe's game. The police are treating his attack as attempted murder.]]></description>
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		<title>A Year After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf Coast Tribespeople Face Changed Lives</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/21/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later-gulf-coast-tribes-look-at-changed-way-of-life/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/21/bp-oil-disaster-one-year-later-gulf-coast-tribes-look-at-changed-way-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The centuries old lifeways for the descendents of the region's earliest inhabitants of Louisian's Gulf Coast is eroding. The BP oil spill was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the U.S., and has destroyed jobs, curtailed seafood consumption, and harmed human health.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the International Year of Forests, But Who Gets to Decide About Them?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/its-the-international-year-of-forests-but-who-gets-to-decide-about-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the havoc that deforestation is causing for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, a critical question is, “Who gets to decide about forests?”]]></description>
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		<title>Tulalip Tribes Looking at Climate Change From Mountains to Sea</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/06/tulalip-tribes-looking-at-climate-change-from-mountains-to-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/06/tulalip-tribes-looking-at-climate-change-from-mountains-to-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tulalip Tribes are looking at the effects of climate change from the mountains to the sea, with a focus on its impacts on oceans.]]></description>
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		<title>Court Affidavit Exposes 18 Years of Chevron&#8217;s Unethical Conduct in $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/07/court-affidavit-exposes-18-years-of-chevrons-unethical-conduct-in-9-5-billion-ecuador-lawsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/07/court-affidavit-exposes-18-years-of-chevrons-unethical-conduct-in-9-5-billion-ecuador-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil Giant Attempted to "Buy or Bully" Its Way Out of Environmental Liability]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Indians Protest in London, Judge Blocks Brazil Dam</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/02/02-amazon-indians-protest-in-london-judge-blocks-brazil-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/02/02-amazon-indians-protest-in-london-judge-blocks-brazil-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon protested in London Mar. 2, calling for an end to dams and dam construction that threatens to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal peoples.]]></description>
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		<title>Frequent, Severe Fires Turn Alaskan Forests into a Carbon Production Line</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/19/18frequent-severe-fires-turn-alaskan-forests-into-a-carbon-production-line/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/19/18frequent-severe-fires-turn-alaskan-forests-into-a-carbon-production-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaskan forests used to be key players in Mother Nature’s game plan for regulating carbon dioxide levels in the air. Now, American and Canadian researchers report that climate change is causing wildfires to burn more widely and severely, turning Alaska's black spruce forests from carbon repositories to generators of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Salmon Defense Creates Billy Frank Endowment Fund for Salmon</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/17/salmon-defense-creates-billy-frank-endowment-fund-for-salmon/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/17/salmon-defense-creates-billy-frank-endowment-fund-for-salmon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Billy Frank Jr.’s 80th birthday, Salmon Defense has created the BILLY FRANK ENDOWMENT FOR SALMON. The mission of the trust will be to honor and create permanence and action to the vision and work of Billy Frank Jr.]]></description>
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		<title>Uncontacted Amazon Indians Face Annihilation</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/14/14-uncontacted-amazon-indians-face-annihilation/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/14/14-uncontacted-amazon-indians-face-annihilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The home of the nomadic Awá tribe's indigenous territory in the Amazon suffered the most deforestation in 2009. Now, the last refuge of some 60 to 100 uncontacted Awá is being destroyed.]]></description>
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		<title>Quechan Tribe v. U.S. Department of the Interior</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/01/30/29-enlightening-quechan-v-blm/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/01/30/29-enlightening-quechan-v-blm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney Ryan D. Dreveskracht addresses the storm of inaccurate and misplaced media criticism aimed at the Quechan Tribe for not “supporting” the DOI's approval of a 709-megawatt solar farm, slated for over 6,000 acres of public land in California's Imperial Valley.]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Country Conservancy to Restore Native Lands in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/28/28-indian-country-conservancy-restores-native-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/28/28-indian-country-conservancy-restores-native-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indian Country Conservancy reacquires conservation and cultural lands to help rebuild Native nations and make Indian country whole again, and is negotiating return of extraordinary lands to tribes in Oregon.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Refugees &#8211; the Documentary</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/14-climate-refugees-documentary/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/22/14-climate-refugees-documentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the documentary film "Climate Refugees," climate-induced environmental disasters will, and is now resulting in unlivable homelands and climate refugees, leading to a mass global migration that threatens the lives of millions of people, as well as national and worldwide security.]]></description>
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		<title>Onondaga Nation of Iroquois Confederacy Takes On Fracking</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/09/08-onondaga-nation-of-iroquois-confederacy-fracking/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/09/08-onondaga-nation-of-iroquois-confederacy-fracking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Onondaga Nation, long healers of the environment, face a new threat as gas and oil companies target the gas rich Marcellus shale for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.]]></description>
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		<title>Biopiracy Agreement A Surprise Success</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/07/biopiracy-agreement-a-surprise-success/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/07/biopiracy-agreement-a-surprise-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 04:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Nagoya Protocol at COP10, formalizing rules for achieving the fair sharing of benefits from genetic resources. It's considered one of the most important measures ever taken against biopiracy by delegates and NGOs.]]></description>
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		<title>Indians Demand Answers as Amazon is Sold</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/28/indians-demand-answers-as-amazon-is-sold/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/10/28/indians-demand-answers-as-amazon-is-sold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peru's latest Amazon land auction to foreign oil companies has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their lands were sold.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change Disruption in Alaska&#8217;s Remote Indigenous Villages</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/29/climate-change-disruption-in-alaskas-remote-indigenous-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/29/climate-change-disruption-in-alaskas-remote-indigenous-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A St. Lawrence University professor is getting a first-hand view of how climate change is affecting remote villages in Alaska. His intent is to bring the views of the indigenous peoples who live there to the world. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Island Nation Kiribati to Close 150,000 Square Miles to Fishing</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/17/17-pacific-island-nation-of-kiribati-to-close-150000-sq-miles-to-fishing/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/17/17-pacific-island-nation-of-kiribati-to-close-150000-sq-miles-to-fishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Threatened by rising sea levels, Kiribati is closing 150,000 square miles of their territory to fishing. By doing so they're sending a message to the world: We need to make sacrifices to provide a future for our children and grandchildren.]]></description>
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		<title>Survival International: Mapuche hunger strike continues</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/16/16-mapuche-hunger-strike-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/16/16-mapuche-hunger-strike-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-four Mapuche prisoners in Chile are nearing the 70th day of a hunger strike to highlight the Chilean government's use of anti-terror legislation to criminalize Mapuche attempts to recover their ancestral land.]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Tells Community on Wind River Indian Reservation: Don’t Drink the Water</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/15/epa-tells-community-on-wind-river-indian-reservation-dont-drink-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/15/epa-tells-community-on-wind-river-indian-reservation-dont-drink-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of rural Pavillion in Wyoming have been told not to drink their water, and to use fans and ventilation while bathing or washing clothes to avoid the risk of explosion. Many residents blame "fracking."]]></description>
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		<title>Bushmen denied water, launch appeal</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/13/01-bushmen-denied-water-launch-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/13/01-bushmen-denied-water-launch-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa's High Court denies Bushmen their right to a well on their lands inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, while Botswana's president describes their way of life as 'an archaic fantasy.']]></description>
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		<title>UN: Thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/10/un-report-thirty-four-colombian-tribes-face-extinction/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/10/un-report-thirty-four-colombian-tribes-face-extinction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees warns at least 34 Colombian tribes face extinction.]]></description>
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		<title>Athabascan, other groups appeal DNR’s approval of coal exploration in Alaska’s Wishbone Hills</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/07/06-athabascan-appeal-dnr%e2%80%99s-approval-of-coal-exploration-alaska/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/07/06-athabascan-appeal-dnr%e2%80%99s-approval-of-coal-exploration-alaska/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Athabaskan Tribe filed an appeal against the Alaska DNR's approval of coal exploration on lands and salmon habitat they and USFWS have invested $1,000,000 and thousands of man hours in restoring after destruction from previous coal mining, among other charges.]]></description>
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