Category: Communal Healing

Source: https://cso.lacounty.gov/media/blog/putting-down-roots/ Cover Photo Credit: https://www.buzzfeed.com/pernellquilon/los-angeles-tree-tunnels Plans to equitably manage the tree canopy in greater L.A. are finally taking hold. Having a healthy urban forest is an essential part of…Continue readingPUTTING DOWN ROOTS

Source: https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-renewables-sacred-sites-native-americans-f47ca3a44c2e21f453ebc210b849a00c#:~:text=ALBUQUERQUE%2C%20N.M.%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94,customers%20as%20far%20away%20as BY  SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANUpdated 6:31 PM PDT, April 16, 2024Share ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by Native American tribes and environmentalists to…Continue readingUS court rejects a request by tribes to block $10B energy transmission project in Arizona

By Yiming Fu, Medill News Service NOV. 22, 2021 / 4:20 PM Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/11/22/Indian-Health-access-to-care-Raul-Grijalva/7501637608842/ Data Support: https://www.nihb.org/tribalhealthreform/docs/ihcia/S.1790%20IHCIA.pdf WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) — A proposed amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement…Continue readingBill seeks to improve healthcare access for urban American Indians

A new research partnership will combine Indigenous and scientific knowledge to monitor marine life in a sacred tribal region that may be a bellwether of how native species will fare…Continue reading‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ off the California coast

The growing practice of acknowledging Indigenous land ancestry is a positive change, but tribal stewardship must be the end goal. It is no coincidence that the Tribes whose land comprises highly urbanized, highly…Continue readingNative Land Acknowledgments Are Not the Same As Land

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT STATE OF CALIFORNIA Source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/6.18.19-Executive-Order.pdf WHEREAS, in the early decades of California’s statehood, the relationship between the State of California and California Native Americans was fraught with violence,…Continue readingEXECUTIVE ORDER N-15-19