Tag: Native Americans

Amoke rises from the stacks of the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. The coal-fired power plant in far northern Arizona that was built to deliver water to the state's desert region is set to retire in 2019 unless a new owner can be found. (AP File Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Energy and Environment

Trump administration scrambles to save largest coal plant in the West

John Siciliano · October 23, 2017 4:01 am

Beltway Confidential

Does Claire McCaskill not respect intellectual property, or does she just not like Native Americans?

Jennifer Kerns · October 20, 2017 7:32 pm

Lincoln, perched atop Bascom Hill, has drawn protests from racial justice activists in recent years. Now, the sixteenth commander-in-chief is facing fire from "Wunk Sheek," an indigenous student group on campus. (Jaron Berman/Bloomberg)

Beltway Confidential

University of Wisconsin students protested the school’s Abraham Lincoln statue with a ‘die-in’

Emily Jashinsky · October 19, 2017 3:13 pm

The Daily Wire's editor-in-chief says the video was "bad satire" and has been "justifiably removed." (Flickr)

Ben Shapiro apologizes for, removes Daily Wire video depicting Native Americans as cannibals

Victor I. Nava · October 10, 2017 9:42 pm

They Don’t Know When They’re Licked

The Scrapbook · October 6, 2017 9:15 pm

They Don’t Know When They’re Licked

The Scrapbook · October 6, 2017 8:00 am

Interior secretary recommends that the boundaries be changed and that tribes be allowed to co-manage the lands with the federal government. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

Navajo Nation vows to sue Trump if he shrinks Bears Ears national monument

Josh Siegel · September 21, 2017 9:43 pm

Several cities throughout the country have already renamed the holiday. (Robbt/Flickr)

Los Angeles votes to rename Columbus Day ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’

Ariella Phillips · August 31, 2017 1:43 am

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal court, not a state court, must hear a case about a murder on Indian land. (iStock by Getty Images)

Appeals court overturns conviction, death sentence because wrong court tried murder case

Ryan Lovelace · August 9, 2017 3:46 pm

Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., marked the second anniversary of the Gold King Mine disaster by calling it an "injustice" that the Environmental Protection Agency caused but has yet to rectify. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Energy and Environment

Sen. Tom Udall marks EPA mine disaster by calling it an ‘injustice’

John Siciliano · August 5, 2017 8:07 pm

Beltway Confidential

Adidas and Reebok should avoid politicizing sports

Mark Grabowski · July 17, 2017 3:49 pm

Measures would roll back changes made by the NLRB that critics said were unfair and designed to boost union organizing. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file)

House GOP advances pro-business labor law bills

Sean Higgins · June 29, 2017 8:04 pm