Native American Archives

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…

Justice for All

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

Remy camp, civil disobedience, environmental, Indian, indigenous, native, Native American, Oceti Sakowin, peaceful, pipeline, protest, racism, right, rights, Sioux, social justice, Standing Rock

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.

Bear at Anan Creek, Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Credit: USFS.

Wild & Wooly

Saving the Tongass National Forest

Ethan Goffman Alaska, alaska forest service, Earthjustice, national forest, native, Native American, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, Organized Village of Kake, rainforest, salmon, Southeast, temperate, Tongass, wildlife

Although it often feels like environmentalists are purveyors of catastrophe, stories of saving precious wilderness abound. One of these is Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest relatively intact rainforest in North America which makes up about 14 percent of the global temperate rainforest…