Tag: Native Americans

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez called it a “truly a historic and unprecedented day for all Indigenous people.”

Haaland’s nomination was backed by progressives, as well as more than 120 tribal leaders, who sent a letter to Biden last month urging him to select her for the post.

Environmental and Indigenous groups say this construction threatens the water where Native Americans harvest wild rice and also would be a factor in increasing climate change.

United States Border Patrol agents and Arizona law enforcement officials violently repressed a peaceful action held Monday morning by roughly 30 land and water protectors.

The administration’s latest attempt to undermine the Clean Water Act would jeopardize tribal and state rights to protect their water quality

“It is unconscionable that it has taken court action to force this administration to distribute relief to Tribal governments as Congress intended and the law requires.”

“How many North Slope members have access to WiFi? That's what I want to know. How many of them know that this webinar is going on?”

“Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?”

After a lengthy legal fight, state and tribal officials reach settlement over ID law

“There has been no consultation with the nation. This administration is basically trampling on the tribe’s history — and to put it poignantly, it’s ancestry.”