Articles by Indigenous Affairs Reporting Fellow Miacel Spotted Elk
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![Someone is standing on top of a truck trailer with a water tank.]()
![Someone is standing on top of a truck trailer with a water tank.]()
The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
The U.S. Energy Secretary said allowing tribes to weigh in on energy projects on their land creates "unnecessary burdens to the development of critical infrastructure."
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![A group of men and women in traditional Indigenous dress stand outside the United Nations climate summit in Brazil]()
![A group of men and women in traditional Indigenous dress stand outside the United Nations climate summit in Brazil]()
COP30 has big plans to save the rainforest. Indigenous activists say it’s not enough.
“We need the government to recognize our climate authority and our role as guardians of biodiversity.”
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![Two people on a canoe holding a long stick]()
![Two people on a canoe holding a long stick]()
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
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![A village experiences flooding]()
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
