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Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.
The Nature Conservancy, a global nonprofit environmental organization, announced the appointment of Fawn Sharp this week to its global board of directors. Sharp— the former president of the National Congress of the American Indian and former president and vice president of her tribe, the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington State—will join two dozen other board members. The Board of Directors are responsible for determining TNC’s policy, according to the nonprofit’s bylaws.
As developers propose solar and wind projects across Washington, gaps in the permitting process threaten culturally significant tribal sites.
Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.
The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the state’s permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of “cultural genocide.”