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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Native News Update April 22, 2013 – IndianCountryNewsTV.com Today’s stories: Navajo Technical College draws big names for commencement, Earth Day walk touts coal-to-solar efforts in Nevada, Kerr Dam nearing tribal ownership, Former Tohono O’odham chairman passes on, Joy Harjo to give IAIA commencement… See on www.indiancountrynews.net
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Some Ojibwe Indians in Minnesota are worried about the fate of the state’s wolf population, which is now being considered healthy enough for hunting and trapping. 500Nations‘s insight: The wolf, in First Nation culture, respresents guidance, loyalty, order and community. By allowing the hunting and trapping of the wolf, they will be killing
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Ojibwe Leaders on Treaty Rights in Ceded Territory Penokee MineInfo March 22, 2013 – A panel of Ojibwe leaders discusses treaty rights and the importance of using them. Video by Rebecca Kemble See on www.youtube.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribe has opened a treaty harvest and educational camp on public lands in the Penokee Hills, near the site of the proposed worlds largest open pit iron mine, upstream from the Bad River Reservation. The site includes an area that hosted almost 200 Indian allotments in the late 1800
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Water is Life #4 – Defending Clean Water in the Penokees (2:28) – Indian Country News Testimony, video and pictures featured statements from those opposed to the proposed 22 mile long Open Pit Mine in the Penokee Range of Northern Wisconsin upstream from the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation. See on www.indiancountrynews.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — For decades this rural basin has battled over the Klamath River’s most precious resource: water that sustains fish, irrigates farms and powers the hydroelectric dams that block one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast. See on www.latimes.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations This winter, after 20 years, the tribes and NWF succeeded in convincing the state of Montana to transfer 68 Yellowstone bison to the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Tribes. This has been one of the hardest nuts to crack in wildlife conservation history. See on blog.nwf.org
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Sa or Red Bird, was born in 1876 to a full-blooded Sioux woman and a white man. She struggled with her mixed-race heritage as a chid on the reservation as well as off. See on lightskinnededgirl.typepad.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations The Department of Fisheries, Australia has narrowed down potential sites for a proposed aquaculture zone off the mid-west coast in Australia. In 2011, $1.85 million was allocated to creating zones for ocean fish farms, to meet the growing demand for finfish like pink snapper.The first phase of consultation looked at three possible sites for the
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Wounded Knee Mystery Bidders Working to Secure Land for Tribe On May 1 the site of the Wounded Knee massacre was put on the open market by owner James Czywczynski with a price tag of $4.9 million. He says three of the five standing offers he has could benefit the Oglala Sioux Tribe,
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