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Takeaways from AP’s report on how Duck Valley Indian Reservation’s water and soil is contaminated

OWYHEE, Nev. — The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation have long grappled with contaminants embedded in the land and water. The tribal health clinic has logged more than 500 illnesses since 1992 that could be cancer, and is trying to break down the reservation’s data to determine what were the most common types. “Bottom line is it’s …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Takeaways from AP's report on how Duck Valley Indian Reservation's water and soil is contaminated

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9 months ago

How The Eastern Shoshone Are Bringing Back Wild Buffalo

Huff Post

WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION — On a sunny August day, Jason Baldes drove a mud-caked quad with a drink holder overflowing with matted buffalo fur toward the wild herd he has overseen since 2016. Once fenced, a project that the nonprofit will have to raise $2 million to accomplish, the new land will join the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho’s …

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11 months ago

Great Basin tribes want Bahsahwahbee massacre site in Nevada named national monument

Associated Press

ELY, Nev. — White attackers turned a lush, high desert oasis in eastern Nevada, with its bubbling springs and a rare stand of Rocky Mountain junipers, into killing fields. Delaine Spilsbury, an Ely Shoshone elder, smells a branch from a Rocky Mountain juniper tree in Bahsahwahbee on Nov. 11, 2023, a site in eastern Nevada that is sacred to members …

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1 year ago

California to return 40 acres in Inyo County — including historic hatchery — to Paiute people

LA Times

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will be returning more than 40 acres of Inyo County land to the Indigenous Paiute people in early in 2024, including a decades-old fish hatchery located along historic Route 395. Newsom, who prompted the land transfer by supporting an effort to address local tribe issues, the Tribal Based Nature Solutions Program, described the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Tribal activists oppose Nevada mine key to Biden’s clean energy agenda as ‘green colonialism’

Associated Press

OROVADA, Nevada — Just 45 miles from the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation where Daranda Hinkey and her family corral horses and cows, a centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s clean energy plan is taking shape: construction of one of the largest lithium mines in the world. Daranda Hinkey, a Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribe member, holds a large hand-painted sign …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Mass shootings and violence leave dead and injured across the US this weekend

Associated Press

CHICAGO — Mass shootings and violence killed and wounded people across the United States this weekend, including at least 60 shot in the Chicago area alone. ST. LOUIS An early Sunday shooting in a downtown St. Louis office building killed a 17-year-old and wounded 11 other teenagers, the city’s police commissioner said. WASHINGTON STATE Two people were killed and two …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Mass shootings and violence leave several dead and injured across the U.S. over weekend

LA Times

Investigators look over the scene of an overnight mass shooting at a strip mall in Willowbrook, Ill., on Sunday. Washington state Two people were killed and two others were injured when a shooter began firing “randomly” into a crowd at a Washington state campground where many people were staying to attend a nearby music festival on Saturday night, police said. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Nevada lithium mine breaks ground despite Indigenous opposition

Al Jazeera

Activists say the project threatens delicate ecosystems, while proponents say it is key to Biden’s green energy agenda. “It’s going to leave contamination behind; the only question is how much.” McKinney is part of an Indigenous group called People of Red Mountain that is resisting the mine at Thacker Pass. In court filings, a lawyer for Lithium Americas said the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Grizzly bear attacks, injures antler hunters in Wyoming

Associated Press

— A grizzly bear attacked and injured two men who apparently surprised the bruin while they were recreating in the Shoshone National Forest in northwestern Wyoming, state wildlife officials said Monday. The encounter happened Saturday while the men were off a trail and searching for antlers shed by deer and elk in the forest southeast of Yellowstone National Park, the …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Nevada Tribes Call For New National Monument Near Navy Bombing Range

Huff Post

Job Peak, also known as Fox Peak, is pictured from Dixie Valley, Nevada, a former ranching town that the Navy acquired in the 1990s for its Fallon Range Training Complex. Four federally recognized tribes in Nevada — the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe, the Walker River Paiute Tribe, the Lovelock Paiute Tribe and the Yomba Shoshone Tribe — are supporting what …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

LA Times

Technicians Kyle King, left, and Lara Breitkreutz trap a salmon at Lower Granite Dam for trucking past warm water to safety. Debby Stallcop counts fish that pass by the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River in eastern Washington state. In 1979, the fish counters at the Lower Granite Dam recorded just 25 Snake River sockeye. A fish ladder on …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Lack of quorum stalls Wyoming tribe medical marijuana vote

Associated Press

— Medical marijuana won’t be allowed on Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation just yet after not enough people were present to vote on the proposal. The council plans to reconvene June 12 for another vote on medical marijuana. The reservation’s other tribe, the Northern Arapaho, voted May 8 to decriminalize medical marijuana. They include allowing a new medical marijuana commission to …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Three Men Booked for Cooking Chicken in Yellowstone Hot Spring in US

News 18

Cooking chickens in a Yellowstone hot spring landed three people in hot water. The ranger found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring. “Make dinner,” said defendant Eric Roberts, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, when asked Thursday what the group was up to in the Yellowstone backcountry. Roberts and Dallas Roberts, of West Valley City, Utah, were …

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Takeaways from AP’s report on how Duck Valley Indian Reservation’s water and soil is contaminated

Takeaways from AP's report on how Duck Valley Indian Reservation's water and soil is contaminated

How The Eastern Shoshone Are Bringing Back Wild Buffalo

Great Basin tribes want Bahsahwahbee massacre site in Nevada named national monument

California to return 40 acres in Inyo County — including historic hatchery — to Paiute people

Tribal activists oppose Nevada mine key to Biden’s clean energy agenda as ‘green colonialism’

Mass shootings and violence leave dead and injured across the US this weekend

Mass shootings and violence leave several dead and injured across the U.S. over weekend

Nevada lithium mine breaks ground despite Indigenous opposition

Grizzly bear attacks, injures antler hunters in Wyoming

Nevada Tribes Call For New National Monument Near Navy Bombing Range

Instead of braving the river, these endangered salmon take the highway

Lack of quorum stalls Wyoming tribe medical marijuana vote

Three Men Booked for Cooking Chicken in Yellowstone Hot Spring in US