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In rare twist, Trump camp sides with Native Americans in sacred tribal land drilling dispute
The Trump administration plans to appeal a federal court ruling that would allow oil and gas drilling on land considered sacred to Native American tribes in Montana and Canada, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Tuesday. Zinke said it would be inappropriate to allow drilling ...
Tammie Nakai lives under a vista of red-rock spires and purple sunrise sky that offers arguably some of the United States' most breathtaking views. But her home lacks what most of the country considers basic necessities: electric lines and running water. "It's been that way ...
Efforts by American Indian tribes in North Dakota to provide free identification with street addresses to thousands of members in advance of next Tuesday's election are cutting into the number of Native Americans who could potentially be turned away at the polls for lack ...
American Indians fear U.S.-Mexico border wall will destroy ancient culture
To the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indians, the water of the Rio Grande that divides the United States and Mexico sanctifies religious rites and purifies their hunts. Indian communities living miles away use the river to send messages to fellow tribes downstream, said tribal chief ...
Cleveland Indians to retire grinning 'Chief Wahoo' logo after 70-year run
Major League Baseball (MLB), under pressure from Native American groups, announced Monday that the Cleveland Indians will stop using the "Chief Wahoo" logo of a grinning American Indian from next year. MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred said he had determined it was no longer "appropriate" for ...
Martin Luther King children criticize Trump, decry racism on MLK holiday
Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children and the pastor of his historic Atlanta church marked the national King holiday Monday with sharp denunciations of President Donald Trump, focusing on disparaging remarks he is said to have made about African countries and Haitian immigrants. ...
Japanese researcher focuses on U.S. minorities, without reservation
A Japanese researcher whose worldview was shaped by a transcontinental journey in his youth has spent years chronicling the lives of Native Americans and other minorities in the United States. "While moving across the continents to the west, just like a runaway boy, the faces ...
Native hunters kill protected gray whale that made its way up Alaska river
A gray whale making a rare sojourn up an Alaska river was killed by Native hunters in boats who peppered the massive, federally protected animal with gunfire and harpoons. The 37-foot whale was then retrieved from the Kuskokwim River and cut up for distribution among ...
Holdout Dakota pipeline protesters face police as deadline passes
Several dozen demonstrators, the last holdouts from a mass protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, faced off against riot police on Wednesday as they defied a deadline to end their months-long occupation of an encampment on federal land. Police arrested a handful of protesters who ...
Native Americans vow to wage pipeline protests across U.S.; Seattle dumps Wells Fargo
Native American groups said they would step up efforts to block the development of energy infrastructure across the United States to prevent future water contamination and damage to sacred land, following the defeat for the Standing Rock Sioux in its battle against the $3.8 ...
Native Americans hail, Republicans rail at Obama's monument picks in Utah, Nevada
President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West, marking the administration's latest move to protect environmentally sensitive areas in its final days. The Bears Ears ...
Trump pitches jobs to blue-collar Ohio, oil pipeline across sacred lands, coal industry revival
Shiny new Jeep Wranglers and Cherokees, lined up in their thousands, wait to be shipped out by train from the Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio, where Donald Trump has come to court blue-collar voters with promises of jobs. The industrial city on the shores of ...
