High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 9. Vagabond writer Craig Childs on 20,000 years of wanderlust http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.17/vagabond-writer-craig-childs-on-20-000-years-of-wanderlust The author traces the paths of peoples that have wandered the earth for centuries, from Alaska to the Southwest. No publisher Craig Childs Gambell Athabaskan migration Navajo Craig Childs Savoonga 2012-11-08T22:36:28Z News Article The great New Mexican juniper massacre http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.16/the-great-new-mexican-juniper-massacre On public land in New Mexico, firewood-hunters have illegally cut down hundreds of old-growth juniper trees, much to the dismay of the Bureau of Land Management and environmental activists. No publisher Jonathan Thompson rural economy Pueblo badlands juniper old-growth piñon-juniper firewood illegal woodcutting law enforcement BLM Hispanic woodcutting poverty New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Navajo 2012-09-13T15:04:16Z News Article Undaunted muckraker http://www.hcn.org/issues/331/16586 Navajo Times reporter Marley Shebala is a fiercely determined journalist whose investigative reporting has helped bring down two tribal presidents No publisher Dan Kraker Media investigative Navajo Times Politics and Elections Farmington Daily Times publishing Nation riots Navajo Peter MacDonald muckraking Tom Arviso Jr. Indian Country Native Americans censorship reporters Nava Marley Shebala journalism tribal presidents printing KTNN 2010-10-14T22:41:32Z News Article Two weeks in the West http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16918 No yellow snow for Snowbowl; gonorrhea and meth: a match made in hell; split-estate bills in New Mexico and Colorado; Montana’s green energy bills languish; “Rocky Mountain High” second Colorado state song, bolo tie is official New Mexico neckwear. No publisher Jonathan Thompson sacred sites Appeals Colorado Oil and Gas Association ski area for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of tribal religion Greg Schnacke Hopi San Francisco Peaks venereal disease treated sewage snowmaking Snowbowl gonorrhea methamphetamines Navajo Centers 2010-08-13T22:25:01Z News Article In Large and Sunlit Land http://www.hcn.org/issues/357/17315 Peter Chilson ponders the parallel fates of two lovely and ravaged lands: The Southwest desert in America and the West Coast of Africa. No publisher Peter Chilson Peter Chilson American West Henry Morton Stanley Tuareg Sahara West Africa Navajo 2010-08-11T22:55:53Z News Article When the sacred becomes toxic http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.21/when-the-sacred-becomes-toxic As Native Americans use religion to save their sacred places, they need to remember that conflicts framed around faith often have unhappy endings. No publisher Jonathan Thompson Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Mount Taylor Snowbowl ski area San Francisco Peaks religious freedom Marita Noon Navajo Native American religion 2010-02-05T08:50:27Z News Article Sacred claims http://www.hcn.org/issues/310/15907 American Indian tribes face an uphill battle in their effort to protect sacred sites on federal land in the West No publisher Daniel Kraker Indian Culture American Indians Native Americans Indian religion native spirituality sacred sites holy sites Arizona Snowbowl San Francisco Peaks Coconino National Forest snowmaking Navajo Hopi Joe Shirley Jr. religious freedom Petroglyph National Monument 2010-02-05T08:31:37Z News Article Is the Southwest’s ‘last real stinker’ on its last legs? http://www.hcn.org/issues/255/14138 The possibility that the Mohave Generating Station could shut down delights Southwestern environmentalists, but worries the Navajo and Hopi tribes economically dependent on the plant No publisher Daniel Kraker Native Americans Mohave air pollution Navajo Hopi Native American Indians energy 2010-02-05T10:13:02Z News Article Navajos pay for industry's mistakes http://www.hcn.org/issues/329/16521 The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird Struminger says the program has proved flawed No publisher Laura Paskus Navajo health problems Reservations and Economic Development uranium mining Radiation Exposure Screening Nuclear Bruce Baird Struminger Uranium miners Green Justice Native Americans radiation-caused illness lung cancer health Radiation Exposure Compensation Act uranium mills and Education Program pulmonary fibrosis Navajo RECA Health Problems 2011-12-01T19:30:06Z News Article