Tag: Native Americans
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The Linked Ecological Futures Of America And China
Image: Flora Weil for Noema Magazine When one country’s desert forms another’s rain, then one’s dream is another’s peril. In the 1860s, a restless young adventurer named Jack Swilling spent years in the unforgiving American Southwest engaged in one of the country’s favorite pastimes: running from his past and trying to get rich. After years…
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EPA Proposes to Establish First-Time Clean Water Act Protections for Over 250 Tribes
EPA’s proposed baseline water quality standards would usher in new Clean Water Act protections for Tribal Nation waterways May 3, 2023 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed federal baseline water quality standards for waterbodies on Indian reservations that do not have Clean Water Act standards, ensuring protections for over half…
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‘Water is life’: Native leaders honor sacred river spaces as courts debate water rights
Photo: A view near the confluence of the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon on Dec. 1, 2021. Joel Angel Juarez/The Republic Mona Polacca has never seen Sípàapu, a place of emergence on the Little Colorado River according to Hopi creation teachings. But she knows it is a sacred place…
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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Investments to Protect the Colorado River System
President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda is Enhancing Drought Resilience and Strengthening Water Security in the West The Biden-Harris Administration is leading a whole-of-government effort to make Western communities more resilient to climate change and the ongoing megadrought by harnessing the full resources of the President’s historic Investing in America agenda. The Inflation Reduction Act…
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Without water, Native American tribes hit hard by the pandemic
Photo: An analysis by USC Gould’s Robin Craig found that limited access to running water and basic infrastructure put the Navajo tribes at a heightened risk of COVID-19. (Photo/iStock) The Navajo Nation in Arizona — the largest and most populous reservation in the U.S. — was one of the areas hardest hit during the COVID-19…
