Climate Indigenous Affairs
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![An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at Michagan's Mackinaw City pump station sits in 2016.]()
![An above-ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline at Michagan's Mackinaw City pump station sits in 2016.]()
DOJ thinks Enbridge Line 5 pipeline is trespassing on tribal lands
But the agency stopped short of telling the company to move.
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![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
![A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees.]()
For a just transition to green energy, tribes need more than money
Advice from an Indigenous researcher: "To go fast, start slow."
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![Man in yellow jacket and yellow hard hat hits earth wtih ax during fire]()
![Man in yellow jacket and yellow hard hat hits earth wtih ax during fire]()
Water from arsenic-laced wells could protect the Pine Ridge reservation from wildfires
“We’re looking to deal with extended drought and the increasing intensity of wildfires.”
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Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”
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![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.
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![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
![International flags fly on poles in front of United Nations building.]()
IPLC: The acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night
Native leaders say equating "Indigenous peoples" and "local communities" threatens hard-won treaty rights.
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The massive copper mine that could test the limits of religious freedom
To fight climate change, the world needs copper. The third largest deposit on the planet is in Arizona, a site the San Carlos Apache say is “like Mount Sinai to us.”
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![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
![A collage in the shape of a large eye with document text in the sclera and a photo of a pipeline in the iris/pupil]()
FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show
Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps.
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![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
![Greenery and trees frame a river leading to a mountain.]()
New report slams carbon offset project in Cambodia for violating Indigenous rights
Human Rights Watch alleges Indigenous peoples were thrown off their land in name of conservation.
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![Glen Canyon Dam holds back water to create the Lake Powell reservoir. The dam divides the river's Upper Basin from its Lower Basin.]()
![Glen Canyon Dam holds back water to create the Lake Powell reservoir. The dam divides the river's Upper Basin from its Lower Basin.]()
States and tribes scramble to reach Colorado River deals before election
Landmark agreements would cut big states’ water usage for decades and deliver water to the Navajo Nation.
