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  • Congress and Indians spar over lost money

    Sen. John McCain proposes a way to settle the long-running scandal over missing Indian trust-account funds, but Blackfoot banker Elouise Cobell remains wary

    by Daniel Kraker, Aug 22, 2005

  • Bedrock environmental law takes a beating

    Congressman Richard Pombo’s task force tears into the National Environmental Policy Act

    by Laura Paskus, Aug 22, 2005

  • A banker battles to hold the government accountable

    Browning, Mont., banker Elouise Cobell uncovers a huge financial mess involving billions of dollars of tribal money somehow misplaced by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

    by Greg Hanscom, Aug 03, 1998

  • A breath of fresh air

    For over 30 years, the Northern Cheyenne have stood firm against energy development and its environmental impacts, but now, faced with crushing poverty, some are starting to think about developing the reservation’s coal and methane resources

    by Bob Struckman and Ray Ring, Jan 20, 2003

  • Could it be Apocalypto for the Southwest?

    John Krist says the movie Apocalypto, about the decline of the Maya in central America, has lessons for today

    by John Krist, Jan 07, 2007

  • Pollution for jobs: a fair trade?

    The Navajo Nation is wrangling over the benefits – and dangers – of the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant in northwestern New Mexico

    by Tony Barboza, Sep 05, 2005

  • Pueblo Indian Agriculture

    In Pueblo Indian Agriculture, James A. Vlasich explores the American Indian farms along New Mexico’s Rio Grande, delving into their difficult history and their current modest revival

    by Staff, Jul 25, 2005

  • Protecting the treaty, saving the fish

    Kat Brigham of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla has devoted her life to fighting for tribal fishing rights and the survival of salmon on the Columbia River

    by Tim Sullivan, May 16, 2005

  • Tribes ‘buy in’ to restore their river

    Oregon’s Warm Spring Indians become co-owners of the Pelton-Round Butte Dam Complex and hope to restore salmon runs on the Deschutes River

    by Rachel Odell, Sep 27, 2004

  • The pueblos’ roller-coaster rise to power

    A timeline traces the history of the pueblos of New Mexico

    by Paul Krza, Apr 28, 2003
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