NPR – Army Corps of Engineers Denies Permit To Controversial Alaska Gold Mine
The view beneath the wing of a float plane as it flies over the wetlands, streams and lakes of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The Guardian – Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy
Wendsler Nosie Sr. speaks with Apache activists at a rally near Superior, Arizona, in front of the US Capitol in Washington in 2015. Photograph: Molly Riley/AP
A health worker walks along a line of cars at a King County COVID-19 testing site, Oct. 28, 2020, in Auburn, Wash.(TED S. WARREN/AP).
The U.S. has recorded over 11 million cases of the coronavirus in a pandemic that shows no signs of slowing.
Biden/Harris supporter Cindy Honani stands outside the Navajo Nation Council Chamber while holding a sign above her head to protect herself from the snow in Window Rock in late October.
The Washington Post—Getting to the polls can be hard in Navajo Nation. This woman is leading voters on horseback.
Allie Young, 30, leading a group of Navajo voters on horseback to an Arizona polling station as part of her “Ride to the Polls” initiative to encourage Native youth to vote. (Talia Mayden for HUMAN)
The university obtained almost 990,000 acres of expropriated Indigenous land through the Morrill Act and hopes to provide some remedies.
BACKSTORY
The Morrill Act of 1862 expropriated 10.7 million acres of Indigenous land to fund future colleges across the nation. Over a two-year period, High Country News located more than 99% of those acres, identified the original inhabitants, who represent nearly 250 tribes, bands and communities, and calculated the profit raised from land sales in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the top institutions involved was New York’s Cornell University, which obtained almost 990,000 acres in 15 states and 202 counties (“Land-Grab Universities,” April 2020).
[RELATED: https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indigenous-affairs-education-land-grab-universities]
Now, Cornell’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program has publicly acknowledged the university’s moral obligation to address its legacy and its impacts. The program has created the “Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project” to continue researching Cornell’s Morrill Act lands and to discuss possible remedies with Indigenous communities. Notably, researchers highlighted the university’s mineral rights on 420,000 acres in the Central and Southwestern U.S. They’re asking Cornell whether those rights were received under the Morrill Act and for a full account of any revenues derived from them. Results will be shared at hcne.ws/cornell-landgrab.
Technology is keeping patches of Alaska permafrost frozen to preserve energy infrastructure even as indigenous residents’ world is transformed by the climate crisis.
An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope borough, Alaska. Photograph: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Huffpost—10 Photos That Celebrate The Resilience Of Indigenous Peoples Around The World
Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia, 2018 ― Zamanbol, 14, with her eagle hunting partner. Zamanbol is a Kazakh nomad who lives in the Altai region of Mongolia. She lives in town during the week to attend school, but on the weekends returns to her family’s ger, or yurt. She is one of a number of young nomads who are embracing the traditional customs of their people, which stretch back centuries, in a bid to hold onto their identities and their connection to nature.
New York Times – ‘The Coal Industry Is Back,’ Trump Proclaimed. It Wasn’t.
The Navajo Generating Station’s 775-foot-tall smokestacks tower above everything else in the area, including the region’s famed sandstone formations. Photo Credit, Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times
Vox—Scientists fear the Western wildfires could lead to long-term lung damage
Young children, older adults, and people with preexisting conditions face the highest risks.
During the peak of the recent wildfires, cities like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, suffered some of the dirtiest air in the world, making breathing the air like smoking a pack of cigarettes in a day.
The smoke from these fires has shrouded millions of people in dirty air, as you can see in this map of air quality from Esri, a geographic information software firm:
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Our mission is to advance air quality management policies and programs, consistent with the needs, interests, and unique legal status of American Indian Tribes and Alaska Natives.
