Tribes
Posted inMarch 3, 2014: Fallon’s deadly legacy

Hope and history

by Kevin Taylor

In The Light Of JusticeWalter Echo-Hawk325 pages, softcover: $19.95.Fulcrum Publishing, 2013. It’s unthinkable that kids in America would ever be allowed to play “slaves and masters,” writes Walter Echo-Hawk, but we don’t see anything wrong with Junior strapping on the trusty ol’ cap-shooters for a game of “cowboys and Indians.” Echo-Hawk, a Pawnee tribal member […]

Posted inFebruary 17, 2014: The Gila $olution

Terrorized by coyotes, denied a school lunch, and a controversial superbowl ad

by Jonathan Thompson

UTAHIf you’re like us, you’ve occasionally fallen behind in paying your credit card or utility bills. And maybe you’ve had to face the consequences, perhaps nasty letters from a collection agency or a robo-caller with a vague accent demanding that you make an “arrangement.” But the folks at Uintah Elementary School in Salt Lake City […]

Posted inFebruary 3, 2014: The Hanford Whistleblowers

Location matters in the war on lake trout

by Eric Wagner

Lake trout aren’t just found in low-elevation lakes with large recreational fisheries, like Montana’s Flathead Lake. For more than two decades, they have thrived in the crystalline, icy waters of Yellowstone Lake, in the heart of Yellowstone National Park. Biologists believe someone introduced lake trout to Yellowstone Lake back in the 1980s. Since then, the […]

Posted inNovember 25, 2013: Ecosystems 101

Worst place for a major mine?

by Krista Langlois and Ray Ring

Backers of Alaska’s colossal Pebble Mine, including Republican Gov. Sean Parnell, have predicted tremendous economic benefits from developing what would be the continent’s largest open-pit mine (see map at lower left). But the actual economic forecast is not that clear, and recent events might force a recasting, or even the abandonment, of the scheme. An […]

Posted inFebruary 18, 2013: Farming on the Fringe

Economy, distrust complicate allocation of tribal settlement money

by Debra Utacia Krol

When the Obama administration announced in April that it would pay 41 tribes some $1 billion to settle a lawsuit over federal mismanagement of trust funds, many saw it as a sort of stimulus package for Indian Country — a chance to invest in long-term development and infrastructure, such as schools, clinics and roads. “The […]

Posted inNovember 26, 2012: Casting for Common Ground

A Washington tribe and a timber company wrestle over a forest’s future

by Joshua Zaffos

Updated 11/30/12 The Indian chief and the timber agent meet near the shores of Port Gamble Bay. The spring air is cool and breezy along this small and sheltered nook of northwest Washington’s Puget Sound. Inside the room where the two men sit side-by-side, the atmosphere is civil, yet tense, as they discuss their separate […]

Posted inJune 25, 2012: Special travel issue

The Quileute Reservation copes with tourists brought by “Twilight”

by Bryn Nelson

Five Quileute boys emerge from a phalanx of drummers. Barefoot and bare-chested, they wear black cloaks and wolf headdresses, and dance, crouch and crawl within the center of a large circle. On the outskirts, women and girls move rhythmically to a chant and steady drumbeat, several of them sporting red and black capes emblazoned with […]

Posted inApril 16, 2012: The Other Bakken Boom

The Other Bakken Boom: America’s biggest oil rush brings tribal conflict

by Sierra Crane-Murdoch

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, a lilting swath of prairie in western North Dakota, was once a quiet place. Though thrice the area of Los Angeles, it had only 5,000 residents. Even New Town, a more populous district east of a reservoir called Lake Sakakawea, looked sparse and ephemeral. There was a granary, a fire station, […]

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