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A Native American Community Regains Its Rights to Land in a New Mexico National Preserve

In her last visit to her home state as Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland joined leaders of Jemez Pueblo celebrating the return of its ancestral lands within Valles Caldera.

By Noel Lyn Smith

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, second from the left, helped Pueblo of Jemez Gov. Peter Madalena, center, unveil a poster showing Valles Caldera National Preserve in north central New Mexico, during the event on December 22 celebrating the settlement upholding the pueblo’s entitlement to its ancestral land, including Banco Bonito, inside the national preserve. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News
Indigenous federal employees perform a traditional dance before President Joe Biden's visit to the White House Tribal Nations Summit on Dec. 9 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Biden and Tribal Leaders Celebrate Four Years of Accomplishments on Behalf of Native Americans

By Noel Lyn Smith

Miss Navajo Nation Ranisha Begay listens to remarks by Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz during a campaign rally on Oct. 26 in Window Rock, Ariz. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Getting Out the Native Vote Counters a Long History of Keeping Tribal Members From the Ballot Box

By Noel Lyn Smith

Kyle Roerink, right, leads a hike in the Duck Creek Range, where a pumped storage project is proposed in Ely, Nevada, on Thursday Oct. 5, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?

By Wyatt Myskow

Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images.

Five Decades and a Mountain of Evidence: Study Explores How Toxic Chemicals are ‘Stealing Children’s Future Potential’

By Victoria St. Martin

Flares light up the landscape after sunset on an oil patch in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation on Oct. 27, 2021. North Dakota’s 2014 gas capture plan attempted to reduce flaring in the state, including on tribal land. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

How One Native American Tribe is Battling for Control Over Flaring

By Isaac Stone Simonelli, Maya Leachman and Andrew Onodera

Presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a Voter Mobilization event at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina on Oct. 18, 2020. Credit: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Could Biden Name an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior? Environmental Groups are Hoping He Will.

By Ilana Cohen

Tribes Working to Buck Unemployment with Green Jobs

By Autumn Spanne

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