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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>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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>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>
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		<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>Help Strengthen Environmental News Reporting: Support SEJ</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/12/27/26-help-strengthen-environmental-news-reporting-support-sej/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the Society of Environmental Journalist's 20th anniversary! By donating $20 you support their members as they strive to produce the highest quality investigative environmental journalism.]]></description>
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		<title>In Long Line of Insults, Botswana Minister of Environment Disparages Kalahari Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/10/10-botswana-minister-of-environment-disparages-bushmen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Botswana Minister of Environment Kitso Mokaila tells press, "I don't believe you would want to see your own kind living in the dark ages in the middle of nowhere as a choice, when you know that the world has moved forward and has become so technological."]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Diamonds Boycotted Due to Mistreatment of Kalahari Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/11/03/blood-diamonds-boycotted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protesters spurn blood diamonds and tourism to Botswana over mistreatment of the Kalahari Bushmen, initially evicted to make way for diamond mining then denied access to their well water or right to hunt on their homelands.]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>Indigenous rights: Maya in Belize, San in Botswana both get ambiguous outcomes in court</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/05/05indigenous-rights-jerry-reynolds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 28 the Belize high court delivered a verdict in favor of customary Maya land rights. Three weeks later an ocean away, the high court in Botswana ruled against San water rights in the parched Central Kalahari Game Reserve. By Jerry Reynolds.]]></description>
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		<title>Yakama blocks Hawaiian garbage destined for ancestral lands</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/04/yakama-temporarily-blocks-hawaiian-garbage-destined-for-ancestral-lands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge blocked Hawaii's bid to ship their household garbage to a landfill amid the Yakama Nation's ancestral lands in south central Washington State.]]></description>
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		<title>Klamath Restoration Begins</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/15/klamath-restoration-begins-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal agencies initiate environmental review of plan to restore rivers, farms, and communities of the Klamath Basin. By Craig Tucker.]]></description>
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		<title>California’s Marine Life Protected Areas process scapegoating native cultures, tribal members say</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/06/30/californias-marine-life-protected-areas-process-scapegoating-native-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribal members and the Coastal Justice Coalition say Marine Life Protected Act Initiative would allow for deep water drilling but ban tribal gathering. They want tribal rights and uses deemed outside the scope of the state's authority and the initiative process.]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf oil disaster propels tribes into crisis</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/29/tribes-face-crisis-after-oil-spill-in-gulf/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/29/tribes-face-crisis-after-oil-spill-in-gulf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 04:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded April 20 is wreaking havoc with tribal lives in Louisiana. Terri Hansen reports.]]></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>Climate&#8217;s Second Chance: the World Peoples&#8217; Conference on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/25/the-climates-second-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/25/the-climates-second-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of indigenous peoples and climate activists from around the world gathered in Bolivia to speak as a unified voice after the failed UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.]]></description>
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		<title>The New Energy Future in Indian Country</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/12/the-new-energy-future-in-indian-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, and National Wildlife Federation details renewable energy resources on tribal lands.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. critical of Botswana’s mistreatment of Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/08/us-critical-of-botswana-treatment-of-bushmen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. State Department critical of Botswana for their narrow interpretation of a 2006 High Court ruling that grants Bushmen the right to return to their land and for their banning Bushmen access to their water borehole, needed for survival. Yet Botswana allows Wilderness Safaris to run a tourist lodge with swimming pool in the reserve.]]></description>
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		<title>Opening new water facilities a milestone in journey to Elwha River restoration</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/05/elwha-river-restoration-01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Elwha River restoration and dam removal project on target with the opening of two new water facilities.]]></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>Climate change transforming Navajo’s dunescape to dust bowl</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/02/climate-change-transforming-navajo%e2%80%99s-dunescape-to-a-dust-bowl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unprecedented warming from climate change is unleashing dust storms on the Navajo peoples in northeastern Arizona. By Terri Hansen.]]></description>
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		<title>Mystic Lake Declaration: Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Workshop II</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/29/mystic-lake-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Workshop II builds on the Albuquerque Declaration and work done at the 1998 NPNH Climate Change Workshop. We work together to fulfill our sacred duties, listening to the teachings of our elders and the voices of our youth, to act wisely to carry out our responsibilities to enhance the health and respect the sacredness of Mother Earth, and to demand Climate Justice now.]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic peoples claim their right to cold temperatures</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/20/arctic-peoples-claim-their-right-to-cold-temperatures/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/11/20/arctic-peoples-claim-their-right-to-cold-temperatures/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>The Society of Environmental Journalists – on Twitter!</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/09/27/society-of-environmental-journalists-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Follow 1, 2 or all with one click!]]></description>
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		<title>Schoolyard to wildlife habitat aids environmental education</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/07/28/school-wildlife-habitat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schoolyard Habitat programs transform tribal schoolyards into wildlife sanctuaries]]></description>
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		<title>Alaskan native villages to receive $27.9 million Recovery Act Funds to improve water services</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/07/10/remote-alaskan-native-villages-to-benefit-from-27-9-million-in-recovery-act-funds-to-improve-water-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 30 Alaskan native villages will have improved access to vital water services through $27.9 million in funds from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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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>Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation targeted for high-level atomic waste dump</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2001/02/13/skull-valley-goshute-indian-reservation-targeted-for-high-level-atomic-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native Americans have borne the brunt of the nuclear fuel cycle. Now, the tiny Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians Reservation in Utah is targeted for a very big nuclear waste dump.]]></description>
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