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Cultural blight

The traditional lifestyles of several Northern California tribes are threatened by a pathogen that is killing off oak trees.

by Debra Utacia Krol, Jul 15, 2009
A common problem

There’s a great diversity among American Indians, but the tribes share some of the same tragic ills that plague the rest of society – particularly those caused by methamphetamine abuse

by John Mecklin, May 28, 2007
Problems in Paradise

The brutal murder of a Japanese tourist shines an unwelcome spotlight on the social problems plaguing Arizona’s beautiful but troubled Havasupai Reservation

by John Dougherty, May 28, 2007
The sacred and the toxic

Just over the Arizona-Sonora border, Tohono O’odham traditionalists have joined environmental groups in fighting a proposed Mexican hazardous waste landfill.

by John Dougherty, Apr 16, 2007
Tony Hillerman's Navajoland

In Tony Hillerman’s Navajoland, Laurance D. Linford provides an obsessively detailed guide to the world of Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee Navajo mysteries

by Staff, Oct 31, 2005
She builds new words in an ancient tongue

Reba Teran is painstakingly building an audio dictionary of spoken Shoshone, hoping to save both her language and her culture

by Kerry Brophy, Aug 08, 2005
Showdown over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and its people

Caribou Rising by Rick Bass is an impassioned plea on behalf of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Gwich’in people who have hunted caribou there for thousands of years

by Gary Wockner, Apr 04, 2005
Saving Maidu culture, one seedling at a time

Lorena Gorbet, a Mountain Maidu Indian, has dedicated her life to saving her tribal culture through forest management in the Feather River area of Northern California

by Jane Braxton Little, Apr 04, 2005
Navajos can't Dine at local diner

RD's Drive-In in Page, Ariz., is facing a federal lawsuit over its policy of not allowing Navajo employees to speak their native language while at work.

by Joshua Zaffos, Nov 11, 2002
A rez-to-rez film debut

Skins, Chris Eyre's new film about two brothers on the Pine Ridge Reservation, debuted on reservations across the country in a mobile cinema trailer.

by Jamie McEvoy, Oct 28, 2002

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Cultural blight

A common problem

Problems in Paradise

The sacred and the toxic

Tony Hillerman's Navajoland

She builds new words in an ancient tongue

Showdown over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and its people

Saving Maidu culture, one seedling at a time

Navajos can't Dine at local diner

A rez-to-rez film debut

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