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Native Voice Joy Harjo Draws On Tribal Myth & History In Celebrating Nature

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Poet Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, draws on tribal myth and history to celebrate the natural world and humanity’s role within it.

Currents

Spiritual & Historic Roots Spur Tribes to Fight for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante

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The Trump administration decision to take away protections at Bears Ears is troublesome for Native Americans with ancient connections to the land.

Currents

Rallying Against Land Grabs at Bears Ears, Grand-Staircase Escalante

Roddy Scheer Atlantic, Bears Ears, Cascade-Siskiyou, Center for Biological Diversity, conservation, Defenders of Wildlife, Gold Butte, Grand Canyon Trust, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, Hopi, Indian, Katahdin, Maine, national monument, Native American, Navajo Nation, Nevada, New Mexico, ocean, Oregon, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Pacific, Patagonia, Pueblo of Zuni, Rio Grande del Norte, rollback, Rose Atoll, Sierra Club, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, Trump, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Wilderness Society

Greens are already fighting Trump’s new executive orders revoking protections on millions of acres within ten U.S. national monuments…

Kandi Mossett of Indigenous Environmental Network

Justice for All

Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mossett on Fighting Pipelines, Warming

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Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about how and why native tribes are fighting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects…

Soap Box

Senators Call Out Army Corps on DAPL

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The Standing Rock Sioux’s Chase Iron Eyes is glad the Senate is finally looking into Army Corps of Engineers’ misconduct on DAPL…

Justice for All

Standing with the Standing Rock: A Peak Inside Oceti Sakowin Camp

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5,000 Native American activists have gathered at Oceti Sakowin camp in a peaceful protest near the proposed site of the DAPL pipeline project threatening the water of the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota.

Justice for All

Oil & Water: Standing Rock Sioux Fight Oil Pipeline

Ethan Goffman benzene, Earthjustice, Energy Transfer Partners, environmental justice, Indian, oil, pipeline, Sioux, Standing Rock, Standing Rock Sioux, tribal, tribe, wildlife

North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux, a tribe with a long history of displacement and persecution, is now fighting against the siting of an oil pipeline dangerously close to sacred tribal lands.