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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 ...
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 ...
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New bird flu strain threatens North American wildlife
WEBSep 29, 2022 · The last major outbreak — caused by a related strain, H5N8 — reached North America in 2014, causing $3 billion in losses to U.S. farmers, who had to cull 50 million chickens, turkeys and ...
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 ...
There’s already an alternative to calling the police
WEBJun 11, 2020 · Ashley Barnhill Hubbard , center, and Christian Hawks, left, speak with the parents of a young man having a mental health crisis at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon.
The hidden health inequalities that Indigenous peoples face
WEBJan 26, 2018 · Gordon Belcourt, CC BY-ND. Health inequality. The IHS is the primary health care provider for most American Indians. It is responsible for providing health care under historical treaty agreements ...
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 ...
The Wicked Witch of the West - High Country News
WEBNov 6, 2009 · Oct. 12, 2002 – Ken Rait, the head of Heritage Forests Campaign, who lives in Oregon, persuades an Oregon federal judge to quash Wyoming’s plan to grill him in a FACA deposition. Judge Brimmer ...