Tag: Native Americans

President Biden is pleasing climate change activists who urged him to take an aggressive first step toward moving the country off fossil fuels.

Native American tribe slams Biden administration over secretarial order on oil leases: ‘Direct attack on our economy’

Emma Colton · January 24, 2021 6:35 pm

In this March 21, 2020, photo, petroglyphs at the Petroglyph National Monument, one of the largest petroglyph sites in North America, are shown in Albuquerque, N.M. There is controversy over a police tasing there on Sunday.

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Body camera shows man lied and resisted US park ranger for seven minutes before tasering

Paul Bedard · December 30, 2020 4:53 pm

Energy and Environment

Biden chooses Deb Haaland as interior secretary to help curb emissions on federal land

Josh Siegel · December 17, 2020 7:32 pm

California to consider ‘historical injustice’ in setting vaccine distribution order

David Hogberg · December 16, 2020 8:39 pm

Beltway Confidential

The erasure of Native Americans in sports continues with the Cleveland Indians renaming

Zachary Faria · December 14, 2020 8:35 pm

An American flag flies outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department officials got a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate by misleading a surveillance court judge, House Republicans contend in a newly released memo that Democrats have dismissed as a contrived account intended to protect the president.

Justice Department releases plan to address crisis of missing Native Americans

Tyler Van Dyke · December 10, 2020 10:49 pm

Lummi Tribal member Patsy Wilson, right, is assisted by Lummi Native Vote Team 2020 volunteer Kelli Jefferson in voting Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Wash.

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Pro-Biden effort offered Native Americans $25-$500 Visa gift cards and jewelry to vote

Paul Bedard · December 3, 2020 4:58 pm

Thanksgiving protesters topple statues and vandalize buildings across US

Tyler Van Dyke · November 27, 2020 7:04 pm

#UNThanksgiving trends on Twitter, nodding to Native American and Indigenous heritage

Mica Soellner · November 26, 2020 8:51 pm

Primarily Native American county that Obama carried in 2012 supported Trump over Biden by almost 40 points

Andrew Mark Miller · November 5, 2020 10:13 pm

Elizabeth Warren helps Biden minority outreach push on Indigenous Peoples Day

Naomi Lim · October 12, 2020 2:05 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Casino closures hurting public health systems in tribal nations

Cassidy Morrison · October 9, 2020 3:00 am