Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our main content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider policy news site. You can subscribe to the newsletter below. Evan Larson cuts a cross section fromContinue Reading
Details By Darren Thompson December 13, 2022 SALT LAKE CITY — On Friday, Dec. 9, the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and the Pueblo of Zuni intervened in two lawsuits that aim to restore the original boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments inContinue Reading
Details By Andrew Kennard October 24, 2022 Mandela Barnes, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and the Democratic challenger to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, answered questions posed by the Oneida Nation at a virtual forum Thursday night. Barnes is also the current lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. Johnson did not reply to theContinue Reading
Wells, uranium extraction and recreation concern tribal leaders The “House on Fire” ruins in Mule Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. (Rick Bowmer/Associated Press file) Sounds and vibration give life and disrupt it. Take a walk in any city park, and you’ll notice many wearing headphones to cancel out the noise thatContinue Reading
Wells, uranium extraction and recreation concern tribal leaders The “House on Fire” ruins in Mule Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. (Rick Bowmer/Associated Press file) Sounds and vibration give life and disrupt it. Take a walk in any city park, and you’ll notice many wearing headphones to cancel out the noise thatContinue Reading
By Brian McNeill Now, the Rice Rivers Center is engaging with the federally recognized Chickahominy and Pamunkey Tribes at a new level, conducting two major projects in which it is dedicating the center’s resources and expertise in support of the Tribes’ work to protect and preserve their ancestral lands. “In bothContinue Reading
“The Sites Reservoir is just another half-baked solution to these drought problems that don’t have solutions through settler-colonial policies,” said Brittani Orona, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in northwestern California who has a PhD in Native American studies and human rights from University of California, Davis. “Building aContinue Reading
Last year saw the hottest and driest year in California in over a century. Since 2000, many western U.S. states have endured what scientists refer to as a megadrought not seen since 1500. In May, California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the state’s top water agency to accelerate the approvalsContinue Reading
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In February, the Navajo Nation sued San Juan County, New Mexico over its new redistricting plan. San Juan County, which stretches across a large swath of the Navajo reservation, has enough Indigenous voters to be a majority in two voting districts. The Navajo Nation’s lawsuit, however, argues that the county’sContinue Reading
