Tag: Native Americans

President of Navajo Nation Russell Begaye looks on as EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testifies on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, September 16, 2015, before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Energy and Environment

EPA created ‘culture of distrust’ after causing toxic spill: Navajo head

John Siciliano · September 16, 2015 7:56 pm

An Aug. 5 spill in Colorado caused by an EPA contractor was the subject of a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing on Wednesday. (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

Navajo don’t trust EPA’s toxic spill investigation

John Siciliano · September 9, 2015 5:32 pm

Bernie Sanders visited the Meskwaki Tribal Center in Iowa today, to a welcome by drums. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

In Iowa, Bernie goes Native American

Byron York · September 4, 2015 10:09 pm

"The federal Government is asking our people to waive their future rights because they know without the waiver they will be paying millions to our people," Russell Begaye said in a press release. (Wikimedia Commons)

Energy and Environment

Claim: EPA trying to limit Navajo compensation for toxic spill

John Siciliano · August 12, 2015 6:31 pm

"The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act will put an end to the board's overreach and give authority over labor relations back to tribal leaders," said Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., chief sponsor of the bill.Â Â (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House committee backs Indian tribes over labor board

Sean Higgins · July 23, 2015 6:30 pm

The National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2004 that it had authority over tribal casinos, reversing decades of precedent. (AP File Photo)

Congress mulls federal labor exception for Indian tribes

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 12:05 am

"I find it stunning that the National Football League is more concerned about how much air is in a football than with a racist franchise name that denigrates Native Americans across the country," Harry Reid said. (AP Photo)Â

Harry Reid slams NFL on ‘deflategate’

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2015 3:29 pm

Toba-Maskoy tribal council members stand in their resettlement camp in April 1981. (Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic/Getty images)

Feds haven’t compensated Native Americans 28 years after ordering them to move

Sarah Bedford · December 20, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - This Nov. 25, 2009, file photo shows Pamunkey Councilmen Jeff Brown, left, and Gary Miles, hold a deer as their Chief Kevin Brown presents it to Gov. Tim Kaine, second from left, during the annual tax tribute from the Virginia Indians to the Virginia governor in Richmond, Va. Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus are urging the Obama administration to withhold federal recognition of the Pamunkey tribe in southeast Virginia because of its history of banning intermarriage with blacks. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Alexa Welch Edlund, File)

Black lawmakers: Don’t recognize Virginia tribe

Brian Hughes · November 28, 2014 5:00 pm

Tribe spokesman says Calif. AG attempting to weaken tribal governments

John O'brien · November 25, 2014 9:43 pm

From left, Dennis Niez Sr., Ray Curley and Charley Singer sit in the shade at Little Singer Community School Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, on the Navajo Nation in Birdsprings, Ariz. The Navajo Nation is poised to receive $554 million from the federal government over mismanagement of tribal resources in the largest single settlement of it's kind for a single America Indian tribe. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Navajo to get $554 million in settlement with US

FELICIA FONSECATERRY TANG · September 25, 2014 10:48 pm

Plan to ax ‘Redskins’ from NFL Thursday Night game

Paul Bedard · September 25, 2014 4:04 pm