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The fracking industry is exempt from an astonishing list of federal regulations, endangering health today and across futuire generations.

Standing Rock historian, 'matriarch' of DAPL protests LaDonna Allard dies Allard was known as a wellspring of the tribe's history with an unyielding commitment to protecting it. In the summer of 2016, she donated her family's land at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers to be the site of the Sacred Stone Camp, the first opposition encampment of Dakota Access protests.  Written By: Adam Willis | × LaDonna Allard, founder of the first resistance camp against the Dakota Access Pipeline, gestures while talking to a participant in the Intertribal Summi...

“It was significant that you have a Native American woman who will be in a position to really oversee, if you will, those lands that are part of their homeland,” she told pool reporters Monday. “There is clearly that sense of pride, but as important as that is, it is more important that a woman who has achieved this historic position then lives up to it.” O’Loughlin said she hopes the Biden administration’s Interior Department will take a different approach to tribal consultations than its predecessor, which she said did not do an adequate job of listening to tribal leaders.

March 5, 2021 Democrat representative of New Mexico, Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick for Secretary of the Interior, began her confirmation hearing last week on Tuesday, Feb. 23 and completed it on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Conservative democrat of West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin, is the deciding vote in Haaland’s confirmation, and he has expressed support for her appointment; if confirmed, she will be the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet.  Leaders in Native government are looking forward to her appointment. Kandi White, the Native Energy and Climate campaign ...

In Historic Move, Biden To Pick Native American Rep. Haaland As Interior Secretary at 1:47 pm NPR In a historic first, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Department of the Interior, a source familiar with the decision told NPR's Franco Ordoñez. If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, would be the country's first Native American Cabinet secretary. Fittingly, she'd do so as head of the agency responsible for not only managing the nation's public lands but also honoring its treaties with t...