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Fifty years after Eisenhower's famous warning to beware the growing power of the military-industrial complex, speaker after speaker at a public hearing in Santa Fe, NM, suggested that Cannon Air Force Base has committed acts of war against rural tribes and counties in New Mexico and should be shut down.
 At issue was Cannon's plan to expand its Low Altitude Tactical Navigation (LATN) site to include 21 southern and eastern Colorado counties and 17 eastern and northern New Mexico counties. Affected tribes include the Jicarilla Apache, the Southern Ute and the Navajo. Several Pueblos are near the training zone as well including Ohkay Owinge, Taos, Santa Clara and San Idefonso.
And of course, my own county, Rio Arriba, which is home to several tribes and many Hispanic ranching families that predate the United States of America.
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Tue Feb 15, 2011 at 19:30:16 PM PST
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Welcome to News from Native American Netroots, a series focused on indigenous tribes primarily in the United States and Canada but inclusive of international peoples also.
A special thanks to our team for contributing the links that have been compiled here. Please provide your news links in the comments below.
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Sun Sep 26, 2010 at 14:06:16 PM PDT
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My father knew what it was like to go hungry.
Even before the onset of the Great Depression, his family was intimately familiar with hunger. Mixed-blood Indians living off the rez, in an area where cowards on horseback stalked the countryside in sheets and white hoods, were not the most "employable." Gramps traveled miles every day, on foot, looking for work. Sometimes he'd find something; just as often, he'd come trudging home, late at night, with nothing to show for it but sore feet and an empty stomach. If he was lucky, someone might hire him for 16 hours of backbreaking labor in exchange for a sack of beans, or a little rice - or on a really good day, a whole chicken (that Grandma had to pluck and dress). Most often, the beans or rice were served without salt, pepper, butter, or anything else.
To his dying day, my father hated rice.
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Mon Jun 14, 2010 at 10:03:58 AM PDT
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The Elwha River originates in the mountains of what is now the Olympic National Park in Washington. Long before the coming of the Europeans, there were bountiful salmon runs on the Elwha River which were important to the economy of the Klallam people. The Elwha River supported annual runs of 250,000 to 500,000 fish, including cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden, coho, sturgeon, steelhead, sockeye, and pink salmon. Some salmon weighed more than 100 pounds. While the river is short-only 45 miles long-it was the only river in the Pacific Northwest to contain all five species of Pacific salmon.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 at 16:33:11 PM PDT
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, avid helicopter hunter and lifetime NRA member, has opposed native subsistence rights ever since she came into office. Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said "Thanks but no thanks" to her ongoing efforts to ban indigenous moose harvest.
Federal trust responsibility for Native people meant that the Federal Subsistence Management program followed all appropriate procedures in its ruling for moose harvest by the Cheesh-na Athabaskans of the tiny inland village of Cristochina.
"Palin's attack here has targeted (among others) the Ahtna Indian people in Chistochina; and although the federal court last year rejected this challenge, too, Palin has refused to lay down her arms," wrote Kendall-Miller and her husband, Lloyd Miller, another prominent Native rights attorney.
The State's challenge was rejected on straightforward legal grounds. It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court will hear a further appeal should Palin take time out from the campaign trail to pursue it. This decision will probably stand. With more GOP judges appointed? Perhaps not...
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 13:33:17 PM PDT
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Currently, Native American tribes aren't eligible for the federal production tax credit available to non-tribal project owners under law.
Without this 2 cents per kWh tax credit, it is much harder for wind farms to get built on reservations.
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Mon Nov 12, 2007 at 09:25:12 AM PST
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Inaugural Global Green Indigenous Film Festival
To Be Launched in New Mexico April 18-20, 2008.
Call For Film Submissions
Press Release under the fold.
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Mon Aug 06, 2007 at 07:57:02 AM PDT
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Red Shirt Village -- Residents of Red Shirt village on the northwest corner of the Pine Ridge Reservation have put up signs warning people of the high nuclear radiation levels found in the Cheyenne River.
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