The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental …
2024年12月19日 · Other Supreme Court decisions this year further hamstrung agencies’ ability to enforce environmental regulations. In Ohio v.Environmental Protection Agency, the court halted the Clean Air Act ...
What Project 2025 has to say about Native communities
2024年10月29日 · Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe Councilman Donald Medart joins members of Congress, tribal leaders and community advocates at a rally in Washington, D.C., this April to urge the Biden ...
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February 2025: Immigrant Stories. These are challenging times for everybody who cares about the West, but High Country News sees reasons for hope in the region’s inspiring inhabitants — people ...
My family experienced Indian boarding schools – and genocide
2024年11月20日 · Yet, over the past 10 years, many historians and Indigenous scholars have said that what happened at the Indian boarding schools “meets the definition of genocide.” From the 19th to 20th ...
Wind energy jobs are taking off, but so are risks
2025年1月1日 · For the past few months, the Green Workers Alliance has been surveying wind-energy workers about workplace safety. The survey is ongoing, but the group shared preliminary results with High Country ...
Montana’s Jon Tester might lose. Here’s why that matters
2024年10月31日 · The once-purplish state has recently turned Republican red, making the electoral math tougher for Tester. But that’s not what happened, mostly because the original premises were flawed and ...
How another Donald Trump term could dismantle federal agencies
2024年10月23日 · Trump moved the BLM’s headquarters from the capital to Colorado in 2020, causing disruption and an exodus of leadership. If elected, he plans to use the same tactic elsewhere.
Scientists are tracking ecological changes as the Klamath River …
2024年5月1日 · Tribes with strong ties to the Klamath have long advocated for the removal of the dams. The Karuk Tribe, whose ancestral territory lies below them, has been monitoring water quality there for over ...
Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats
2024年10月11日 · Tens of thousands of birds crowd a recently flooded rice field in Wilson, California, last October. Birds identified at the field included geese, blackbirds, ibis, gulls, cranes and starlings.
‘Smoke Signals’ was needed, but it doesn’t hold up
2019年10月1日 · When Smoke Signals hit theaters, Indigenous people were thirsty for representation. Hell, we’re still thirsty. The lack of understanding of what it means to be Indigenous still looms large in ...