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Tribal dispute puts Alaska village in limbo
2013-11-12 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The flood-prone village of Newtok near Alaska's storm-battered coast is running out of time as coastal erosion creeps ever closer to the Yup'ik Eskimo community. As residents wait for a new village to be built on higher ground nine miles away, a dispute over who is in charge has led to a rare intervention by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which ruled that the sitting tribal council no longer represents the community of 350 as far as the agency is concerned. Council leaders are appealing the...
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Red Lake encampment battles pipeline on tribal lands
2013-11-03 08:40:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
These pipelines, which transport tar sands oil, pass directly through the Leech Lake Reservation, the Fond du Lac Reservation, and the Red Lake reservation.
Civil rights panel members urge rejection in Hawaiian tribal status fight
2013-09-17 22:46:02| Airlines - Topix.net
Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights are urging President Obama to reject Democratic requests to grant tribal status to Native Hawaiians by executive order, saying the unilateral move would be "unwise and unconstitutional."
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Red Lake encampment battles pipeline on tribal lands
2013-08-11 21:32:23| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Since 1949, Enbridge Energy has been transporting crude oil through its more than six pipelines from Alberta, Canada through northern Minnesotan reservations and across the US.
Tribal Activists Arrested Trying to Block Tar Sands 'Megaload' on Idaho Highway
2013-08-07 07:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Police arrested 19 members of the Nez Perce Tribe on Tuesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct for refusing to break a human chain blocking a highway in Idaho in protest against a 322-ton load of equipment bound for the tar sands of Alberta, Canada. The blockade by more than 250 mostly Native American protesters halted travel of a so-called megaload for two hours on a scenic roadway at the front lines of an ideological struggle over North American oil and gas development and its impact on the environment,...
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