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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>EPA Approves Historic Salmon Restoration Plan for Klamath River</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/01/04/04-epa-approves-salmon-restoration-plan-for-klamath-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Action culminates 13 years of state and federal efforts to develop pollution limits for 17 North Coast California water bodies.]]></description>
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		<title>Portraits of Resilience: &#8220;&#8230;that old sea wall is no longer there&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/06/04-portraits-of-resilience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children in regions affected by climate change use photography to bring their voices, and personal stories to the attention of the public. It is important that the world see not only the effects of climate change but also the efforts people are making to combat and adapt to it.]]></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>
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		<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>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>Canoe Journey&#8217;s successful end celebrated among Northwest Coast tribes</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/03/canoe-journeys-successful-end-celebrated-among-northwest-coast-tribes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Native paddlers arrive in Neah Bay, Wash., and are welcomed by the Makah after ocean voyages of weeks for those from Alaska and Canada. ]]></description>
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		<title>Iroquois Nationals salute FIL World Lacrosse Championships</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/22/iroquois-nationals-salute-fil-world-lacrosse-championships/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/22/iroquois-nationals-salute-fil-world-lacrosse-championships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team salutes the Federation of International Lacrosse, their leadership, the coaches, staff and support groups, and the players, who carry on the honor of their nations and the spirit of this game.]]></description>
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		<title>England says &#8220;no&#8221; to Iroquois Nationals on travel waiver</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/17/england-says-no-to-iroquois-nationals-on-travel-waiver/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/17/england-says-no-to-iroquois-nationals-on-travel-waiver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oren R. Lyons, honorary chairman of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team expresses disappointment that their talented team could not travel to compete in the world championships on their Haudenosaunee passports - essential, like the game of lacrosse invented by their ancestors, to their identity as a sovereign people making their way in the world community. ]]></description>
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		<title>Iroquois Nationals have not withdrawn from championships</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/17/iroquois-nationals-have-not-withdrawn-from-championships/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/17/iroquois-nationals-have-not-withdrawn-from-championships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team has not withdrawn from the 2010 Federation of Lacrosse World Championships. The team is ready to depart once the United Kingdom issues their clearance to travel.]]></description>
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		<title>Passport fiasco creates critical delay for Iroquois lacrosse team bound for World Games</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/12/iroquois-lacross-team-delay-for-world-games/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/12/iroquois-lacross-team-delay-for-world-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois team is competing in the World Lacrosse Championships in England - the “Olympics” of lacrosse. But after 20 years traveling on Iroquois Confederacy passports, the State Department and Dept. of Homeland Security suddenly want to approve their clearance through U.S. Immigration, causing the team considerable worry that any delay will cost them the win. By Valerie Taliman.]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska welcomes home Native art for exhibition from Smithsonian museums</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/26/alaska-welcomes-home-native-art-for-exhibition-from-smithsonian-museums/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/26/alaska-welcomes-home-native-art-for-exhibition-from-smithsonian-museums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 600 objects, including art and clothing made by Alaskan indigenous people more than 100 years ago, go on display at the Anchorage Museum.]]></description>
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		<title>Karuk Tribe, conservation groups sue Six Rivers National Forest to protect sacred sites</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/23/karuk-tribe-conservation-groups-sue-six-rivers-national-forest-to-protect-sacred-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/23/karuk-tribe-conservation-groups-sue-six-rivers-national-forest-to-protect-sacred-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groups charge that Forest Supervisor Tyrone Kelley ignored community and federal laws, and his own proposed plan in directing his crews to log with heavy equipment areas sacred to the Karuk.]]></description>
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		<title>International Funders for Indigenous Peoples visit Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations, Vancouver Island May 15-17</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/07/international-funders-for-indigenous-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/07/international-funders-for-indigenous-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 03:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pristine homelands of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations hosts the 9th Annual International Funders for Indigenous Peoples May 15-17. "We are pleased to meet in British Columbia's coastal region with its unparalleled beauty, rich biological diversity, and vibrant culture of Indigenous Peoples," says IFIP director Evelyn Arce.]]></description>
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		<title>Indegenous Peoples Declaration: Mother Earth can live without us, but we can’t live without her</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/02/indegenous-peoples-declaration/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/02/indegenous-peoples-declaration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 21:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cochabamba, Bolivia - April 19-22, 2010: Over 35,000 participants take part in the first ever World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.]]></description>
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		<title>Poster of teenage Native filmmakers used in hate crime</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/03/08/poster-of-teenage-native-filmmakers-hate-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/03/08/poster-of-teenage-native-filmmakers-hate-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poster of three teenage male Native filmmakers used as part of a hate crime against First Nations and Native American youth prompted Long House Media, Sherman Alexie and other prominent Native peoples to speak out against this particularly ugly crime. ]]></description>
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		<title>Historic agreements aim to mend Klamath waters divide</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/02/23/historic-agreements-klamath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A century of water wars and loss of salmon led to an uncommon unity Feb. 18, as 50 stakeholders in the Oregon-California Klamath Basin signed the world's largest river restoration and dam removal agreements. Not all were happy, though.]]></description>
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		<title>First Peoples Worldwide: National Parks, America&#8217;s Best Idea?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/02/16/first-peoples-worldwide-national-parks-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Burns revealed both the good and bad sides behind the history of America’s Parks in his latest series, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. But...]]></description>
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		<title>Maori arts fuse with Pacific Northwest tribal cultures</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/02/09/maori-art-and-cultures-fuse-with-pacific-northwest-tribal-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kinship of the Maori and Pacific NW tribal peoples transports to our creative origins in the ring of fire (the Pacific) that is ancient, volcanically potent, and precedes written accounts. Our hearts yearn for one another, filling a unique void in the artist when like finds like. It draws breath from the steamy hot veins of our earth and cleanses our minds and center like a good rain.]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to the Earth, say Indigenous peoples</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/20/listen-to-the-earth-say-indigenous-peoples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 19 (IPS/IFEJ) &#8211; The idea of wilderness is &#8220;an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment,&#8221; said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska. The Aleuts have inhabited the islands and coastal areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic peoples claim their right to cold temperatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Terrifyied" best describes the hunter lost on shifting ice, or the homeowner whose house splits when its foundation sinks. Climate change is changing the ecology of the Arctic, creating a crisis for the region’s 160,000 indigenous people collectively known as Inuit.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/12/tribes-claim-wind-farm-would-destroy-sacred-ritual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wampanoag practice sacred rituals requiring an unblocked view of the sunrise. That view won't exist once 130 turbines, each over 400 feet tall, are built several miles from shore in Nantucket Sound, visible to Wampanoag in Mashpee and on Martha's Vineyard.]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership award recognizes Alan Parker for uniting traditional knowledge and scientific disciplines</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/12/alan-parker-receives-leadership-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Parker received the Center for Coastal Margin Observation &#038; Prediction's Leadership Award Oct. 28. Parker "transcends traditional disciplines to bring people together around river-to-ocean ecosystems (and) indigenous knowledge systems," says CMOP.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, and the Way Forward</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/04/climate-change-indigenous-peoples-and-the-way-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IPCC's most recent assessment describes pre-Colombian peoples in the Americas' strategies to adapt to climate changes over 2,000 years ago. “[With] the vagaries of weather and climate, the increasing greenhouse effect and the rapid retreat of the glaciers, it would be extremely useful to revisit such adaptation measures. Education of community members on the knowledge and technical abilities of their ancestors would be the way forward.”]]></description>
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		<title>Native Hawaiian voyaging canoe visits PNW coastal nations</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/07/19/nw-coastal-native-nations-welcome-native-hawaiian-voyaging-canoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A traditional Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe sails by wayfaring, using just the stars, seabirds and tides.]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Northwest coastal tribes facing climate change disruptions</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/02/10/climate-change-pacific-northwest-coastal-tribe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific NW coastal tribes are at increasing risk of climate changes and rising seas. The solution is the return of but a fraction of their traditional homelands. But to get it, the Olympic National Park has to give it back.]]></description>
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		<title>Klamath Tribes set to regain 90,000 acres of homeland</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2008/12/27/klamath-tribes-set-to-regain-90000-acres-of-homeland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Klamath Tribe in Oregon has developed a forest restoration and management plan for the Mazama Forest that will be a cornerstone for their economic development. Improving the health of the forest is a priority.]]></description>
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		<title>Yakama Nation buys Lyle Point, ending decades-long struggle over fishing rights</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2007/06/11/yakama-nation-buys-lyle-point-ending-decades-long-struggle-over-fishing-rights-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Terri C. Hansen High Country News LYLE, WASHINGTON On maps it is called Lyle Point, but to tribal fishing people it has always been Nanainmi Waki Uulktt, “the place where the wind blows from two directions.” The rocky promontory overlooks the confluence of the Klickitat and Columbia rivers, providing spectacular views of the Columbia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Successful appeal to keep hiking trail off burial ground disregarded by port district</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2007/06/04/successful-appeal-to-keep-hiking-trail-off-burial-ground-disregarded-by-port-district/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Terri C. Hansen Environment Writer News from Indian Country Cathlamet, Wash.&#8211;Thirty years ago, the eternal resting place of the Chinook Chief Skamokawa was plundered. Skamokawa was unearthed for the peace medal he received from Lewis and Clark. Other artifacts were stolen along with the medal. Skamokawa&#8217;s body, too, was stolen. Circa 1805 Wahkiakum Indians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celilo Falls Legacy Blog Launched</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2007/03/01/celilo-falls-legacy-blog-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Launch Celilo Legacy Blog March, 2007 Portland, Ore.—The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) unveiled a new online blog as part of its Celilo Legacy project. The blog will serve as a clearinghouse for public discourse, information, events, activities, and memorials in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the inundation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Francis posthumously awarded Lifetime Achievement Award</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2004/07/29/francis-posthumously-awarded-lifetime-achievement-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis posthumously awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Terri Crawford Hansen News from Indian Country A close circle of Native writers gathered at the 2004 Returning the Gift Festival to pay tribute to the late Dr. Lee Francis III, Laguna Pueblo. The internationally-renowned educator, speaker, author and poet was awarded the 2004 Native Writers&#8217; Circle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>766 and counting: Yellowstone buffalo dying to be free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 1997 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Terri Crawford HansenNews from Indian CountryBureau Chief/Pacific Northwest Bureau Yellowstone National Park, Montana—Severe winter conditions at Yellowstone National Park have caused starvation among this countries last free-ranging buffalo. Unable to forage, hundreds are following snowmobile tracks to lower elevations in search of food. For those who make it to the park&#8217;s boundary, it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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