WaterNative Voices
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Guest Column: Passage of Senate Bill 2109 will secure our water rights (5/15/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation has been in litigation over our Little Colorado River water rights for 33 years and the litigation continues today. The children who were...
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NORRELL: 'People of the Water' BC Chief Rueben George at Rights of Mother Earth Gathering (4/10/2012)
(Kansas) -- Rueben George, Sundance Chief and Member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation in northern Vancouver, BC, spoke at the Rights of Mother Earth Gathering, April 4...
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NORRELL: Supai Hopi Mona Polacca: Water, prayer and humility (4/9/2012)
(Kansas) -- Mona Polacca, Havasupai/Hopi, spoke at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference, about the foundation of life. From the first water inside the mother's womb...
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First Nations Politics
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10 years later and still no money to fix Slate Falls’ water woes (4/19/2012)
(Ontario) -- The Nishnawbe Aski Nation is made up of 49 First Nations in northern Ontario. Over 30 of those communities are fly-in. The isolation causes many issues,...
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Duncan announces new First Nations water bill (2/29/2012)
(Manitoba) -- A major fund for clean water on reserves is set to expire even as the Conservatives tabled a new bill that aimed at improving water quality for First...
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Mining & Drilling
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Hundreds March in Ecuador for Water Safeguards and Mining Protests (3/16/2012)
(Ecuador) -- Hundreds of demonstrators – both indigenous people and members of the political opposition – began a two-week march from Ecuador’s...
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Fracking splits Wyoming town at centre of debate (12/20/2011)
(Wyoming) -- Before the energy companies came to town, talk at Pavillion’s sole watering hole centred on the introduction of $3 U.S. Guinness beer on tap. But when...
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InterTribal COALition to sponsor forum on coal and water issues for all Hopi and Navajo members (11/12/2011)
(Arizona) -- Peabody Coal Company wants Hopi and Navajo water and coal, but most tribal community members have not been informed of either financial compensation or even...
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Tribe gets boost in mine opposition with OK of water standards (10/8/2011)
(Wisconsin) -- The federal Environmental Protection Agency has approved new water quality standards for the Bad River band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, a development...
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Glendale Casino
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OP/ED: Bill to block casino could increase water rates (12/9/2011)
(Arizona) -- If U.S. Congressman Trent Franks’ H.R. 2938 (Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act) passes, Arizonans’ water bills...
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Tribe: Bill to stop casino near Glendale may spark water battle (11/22/2011)
(Arizona) -- Legal challenges to stop a proposed tribal casino near Glendale haven't worked so far, but an attempt to kill the project in Congress made headway this...
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Snowbowl
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Groundwater, not wastewater for Dook'o'ooslííd? (10/14/2011)
(Arizona) -- A proposal supporting the use of groundwater, rather than reclaimed wastewater, for snowmaking on Dook'o'ooslííd is making its way through the...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Planned Oil Pipeline Must Cross Pine Ridge’s Water-Delivery System (9/28/2011)
(South Dakota) -- The giant energy company that wants to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline from northern Canada across six U.S. states to destinations in Texas and...
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Planned Oil Pipeline Must Cross Pine Ridge’s Water-Delivery System (9/21/2011)
(South Dakota) -- The giant energy company that wants to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline from northern Canada across six U.S. states to destinations in Texas and...
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Keystone XL Primer: How the Pipeline's Route Could Impact the Ogallala Aquifer (9/20/2011)
(Nebraska) -- The Canadian company TransCanada wants to build a 1,702-mile pipeline that will pass through Nebraska's Ogallala aquifer as it transports heavy crude...
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Fighting Sioux
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Panic Street Lawyer: Sioux Tribes and Seneca Nation (8/21/2011)
(Pennsylvania) -- Last week I wrote about Pittsburgh history repeating itself. However, I only went as far back as 20th century creations with my case studies. This week...
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Other News
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Navajo Tribal Utility Authority examines wastewater operations (5/15/2012)
(Arizona) -- Rising outside costs have caught up with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA), prompting a complete formal review of current water and wastewater...
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Goshutes battle to save their sacred water from SNWA pipeline (5/15/2012)
(Nevada) -- Elders of the Goshute Nation and many scientists agree that removal of aquifer water from eastern Nevada with the SNWA proposed pipeline for Las Vegas...
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Peru’s Indigenous Band Together to Protect Their Lands and Water Rights (5/15/2012)
(Peru) -- As a teenager two decades ago, Ruth Buendía saw the Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazonian lowlands torn apart by violence as the Shining Path...
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Navajos concerned over water deal with feds (5/14/2012)
(Arizona) -- The house where Dixie Ellis lives with her mother is perched on a mesa above town. It is a steep hike up the hill from Lake Powell, the second-largest man-...
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The fight for water: Here's why the West's oldest battle could hit you at the tap (5/14/2012)
(Nevada) -- The West is running out of water. Its lifeblood, the Colorado River, is being hemorrhaged by cities, by farms and ranches, by power plants and by the more...
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Arizona Navajo, Hopi water deal revision stirs controversy (5/13/2012)
(Arizona) -- As a member of the Hopi tribal council, Marilyn Tewa supported a plan two years ago that would have delivered water from the Colorado and Little Colorado...
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Tribal water settlement key to region's future (5/13/2012)
(Arizona) -- If asked 10 years ago to name Flagstaff's biggest long-term problem, many residents would have said bringing the city's high cost of housing under...
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BLOG: Cities in the Desert Are Thirsty for Navajo Water (5/12/2012)
(Arizona) -- Last weekend I traveled to Phoenix to visit my brother and friends, do some shopping, bask in the warm weather and basically, get away. When I was young the...
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New water tests show no problem near tailings site (5/12/2012)
(Wyoming) -- The federal agency in charge of site cleanup and management of an area affected by uranium contamination near St. Stephen's is reporting that tests...
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Opposition Still Strong to Navajo-Hopi Water Act (5/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- Following a series of public forums on a controversial water settlement involving the Navajo and Hopi tribes, opponents of the settlement and the Navajo...
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Last Stand (5/10/2012)
(Utah) -- In Spring Valley in eastern Nevada, the swamp cedar trees stand in somber silence. No more than a mile or so long, they are a narrow strip of sentries marking...
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Native Sun News: Clean water is on horizon for Navajo Nation (5/8/2012)
(Arizona) -- Reliable, clean water will soon be available to the Navajo Nation where 40 percent of families haul their water in barrels from pumping stations.
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Hamm named to task force to negotiate water dispute (5/8/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Harold Hamm, chairman and CEO of Continental Resources, has been appointed to a task force to discuss solutions to avoid ongoing litigation over water...
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Okla. governor, tribal leaders to meet on water (5/8/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Gov. Mary Fallin and the leaders of two Oklahoma American Indian tribes will meet on a task force to try and resolve a dispute over water rights in...
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Okla. governor, tribal leaders to meet on water (5/7/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Gov. Mary Fallin and the leaders of two of the state's largest Indian tribes will meet on a task force to try and resolve a dispute over water rights...
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Task force is formed to find solution to Oklahoma water dispute (5/7/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- A task force was formed Monday to try to come up with a possible solution in a federal lawsuit over water rights in Oklahoma.
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Crow Water Project focuses on healthy drinking water (5/7/2012)
(Montana) -- Although local, state and federal officials visited Wyola and Lodge Grass schools in April to emphasize the importance of clean drinking water and to offer...
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Restoration work planned on Ediz Hook this summer (5/6/2012)
(Washington) -- Habitat restoration is planned on a 1,200-foot stretch of Ediz Hook this summer. The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe and state Department of Natural...
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Fort Defiance audience opposes water deal (5/3/2012)
(Arizona) -- The last of the town hall meetings about the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Settlement Agreement did not end without a lively discussion.
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Update in the Valley focuses on water (5/3/2012)
(Arizona) -- Leave it to Facebook, a popular social networking website, to serve as an online chapter house bulletin board to keep Navajo Nation members residing in the...
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