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Native American Midwives Help Navajo Families Thrive
When Navajo Midwife Nicolle Gonzales talks with Native American women about birth, there’s a sense something is missing, she said in this week’s
Friday Podcast. “But,” she said, “we don’t know what it is.” Gonzales grew up and remains on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. She became a midwife and founded the Changing Woman Initiative (CWI) to address unmet maternal health care needs in her community. She is of the Tl’aashchi’I,
Red Bottom clan, born for Tachii’nii,
Red Running into the Water clan, Hashk’aa hadzohi,
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None of the president s Cabinet nominees was greeted more happily by more people than his choice of Rep. Deb Haaland to be Secretary of the Interior. Having one of the only two Native American women to be elected to Congress running the executive department most responsible not only for the government s relationship with indigenous people, but also for the land and water and air on which they live and breathe, seemed like a vast historical debt was at least partially paid. In addition, Haaland would be tasked with carrying out the new administration s attempts to roll back the pillaging of public lands for private gain that was one of the primary characteristics of the previous administration . Haaland is enormously popular both in Washington and back home in New Mexico. The choice seemed inspired.
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Outgoing Trump administration supported migratory bird massacre, it’s time to reverse the damage January 29, 2021 9:42 AM CDT By Jacob Carter
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated in 2002 that up to two million birds were killed in oil pits every year. | Pedro Ramirez, Jr / USFWS
Since 1918 the federal government has implemented its authority under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) to hold industries accountable for the death of birds due to their operations. Such operations include the spraying of insecticides that poison birds, maintaining oil pits that can lead to drowning or contact with infrastructure such as wind turbines that can cause death on impact.
Key cabinet nominees have opposed mining near Boundary Waters, but Biden’s been silent
What the Biden administration could mean for the future of Twin Metals and copper-nickel mining in the Rainy River Watershed. 9:35 am, Jan. 29, 2021 ×
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks to the delegates on the second night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Harry E. Walker / TNS)
When President Joe Biden was vice president, the Obama administration in 2016 did not renew key mineral leases for Twin Metals, the proposed underground copper-nickel mine in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and initiated a 20-year moratorium on mining in the watershed.