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California wildfire smoke affects indigenous communities nearly two times more than expected
March 4, 2024“Analyses spanning 2006 to 2020 revealed that Native American and Alaska Native, multiracial, and non-Hispanic white populations had consistently disproportionate outdoor wildfire PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] exposure."
Read moreBiden protected the lands surrounding the Grand Canyon – uranium mining is happening there anyway
February 15, 2024There's a long, nasty history of uranium mining on Native lands, but the company says this time is different.
Read moreWhy more than 60 indigenous nations stand against the Line 5 oil pipeline
January 30, 2024The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.”
Read moreNative people fight for history of ancient city beneath Nashville’s streets
January 26, 2024An advanced city of 400,000 existed there and was flourishing in the 1300’s, long before the arrival of Europeans.
Read moreGerald Horne endows International Publishers research prize on Indigenous dispossession and Black oppression
January 18, 2024$1,000 scholarship seeks the best new manuscript.
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