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  • A new land grab

    A new land grab

    The Oglala Lakota are determined to reclaim both their land and cultural heritage. Subscribers only

  • Blood Quantum

    The system that determines membership in most American Indian tribes could threaten the survival of those tribes.

  • Here comes change

    Learning from an elderly Navajo woman with an intimate, lifelong connection to the land.

  • Tribes look to cash in with 'tree-market' environmentalism

    The Nez Perce Tribe is trying to combat global warming – and make a few bucks – by planting trees for carbon dioxide sequestration

  • Native Soil: Lakotas garden for health and independence

    An innovative program at Oglala Lakota College teaches a Plains Indian tribe to garden.

  • Peace on the Klamath

    For years, Native Americans, fishermen and farmers have battled over the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California, but finally a complicated truce is in the works.

  • Warp, weft and Wal-Mart

    Navajo weaver Marie Begay makes beautiful rugs from the wool of the sheep she raises, and looks forward to spending the money she earns at Wal-Mart.

  • On Cancer’s Trail

    The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to do with it.

  • An activist

    Nellie Sandoval, the mother of scientist Stefanie Raymond-Whish, has become an outspoken activist as a result of her own struggle with breast cancer.

  • A well

    Glenda Rangel and her family grew up drinking from and swimming in water tanks dangerously polluted with uranium.

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