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Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline construction is running into tribal resistance over fears of water pollution, wild rice impacts, climate change, and exploitation of Native women.

Biden aims to make the economic case for fighting climate change on second day of virtual summit President Joe Biden on Friday aims to highlight the economic opportunities of climate action a day after announcing an ambitious new goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at his Leaders Summit on Climate from the White House. On Thursday, the President committed the US to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to 52% below its 2005 emissions levels by 2030. While the goals are a part of the ...

One day after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of George Floyd’s murder, mourners gathered in Tampa to honor Floyd’s memory.

Created: April 07, 2021 08:13 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s First Congressional District has been a blue district since Martin Heinrich flipped it in 2008, and Democratic CD-1 nominee Melanie Stanbsury plans on keeping it that way. Stansbury has been serving as a state representative for District 28 since 2019. "Im a hometown girl. I grew up in Albuquerque. I went to Albuquerque Public Schools and graduated from Cibola High School, so go Cougars,” she said. The Cornell-ed...

A small group of protesters rallied in Tampa, Florida, Sunday ahead of the Super Bowl to demand the Kansas City Chiefs change their name and urge fans to stop performing “chop” gestures in the stands.

Protesters gathered outsider the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Sunday. They were demonstrating over a whole host of different issues from the anti-vaxxers to union workers

SHARE While the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were preparing to make history, another group right outside the stadium was working to remind people of what history means to them.  “It’s not an honor for them to use a chief as their mascot,” said protest organizer Stuart Flores. “ We are not a mascot, we’re human.”  The Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality, or FIREE set up right outside of the stadium, with signs and microphones to make their voices heard.  “We are not you...

1 Native American mascots have long been a hot-button issue, but the subject seems to be reaching a tipping point—if it hasnt already.  The Native American mascot controversy dates back several decades. Professional, semi-pro, college, and high school teams across the country have adopted names, logos, and imagery that portray Native Americans in a certain light. As the argument goes, these images and terminology promote and sustain the marginalization and cultural appropriation of Nativ...

2 Ahead of the kickoff for Super Bowl LV on Sunday, a local group staged a protest at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Raymond James Stadium to urge the team to ditch the Kansas City Chiefs mascot out of respect for Native Americans.  The St. Petersburg-based Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality, or FIREE, gathered at the stadium at 4 p.m. E.S.T. The details were released shortly before the game on a Facebook page the group created for the event, which is called “WHERE IS THE HONO...

By CBS News Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A Native American rights group is planning a protest on Sunday urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the teams name and stop fans from using an in-game tomahawk chop ahead of Super Bowl LV in Tampa. Alicia Norris, co-founder of the Florida Indigenous Rights and Environmental Equality (FIREE), is one of the people leading the demonstration set to take place near Raymond James Stadium, where the Ch...