Page 10 - Native Movement News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Si è conclusa ieri sera alla 22 la votazione on line. Il 92,8% ha scelto l’ex premier. Che non scarta elezioni politiche nel 2022

Credit Kelsey Ciugun Wallace Wednesday, May 5 is the day set aside to remember the Indigenous women who are missing or have been murdered. According to data gathered by Data for Indigenous Justice, Native women end up missing and murdered in disproportionate numbers. Kelsey Ciugun Wallace, with Native People’s Action, says that this is the first baseline report on the number of murdered and missing indigenous women, and can be found here.  “There is a total of 229 murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Alaska; 149 are in missing status, and 80 of those are murdered,” said...

For the Interior homeowners who want to switch to solar energy, a local initiative is looking for solutions to cut costs when making the switch. A community-led program, Solarize Fairbanks, makes solar more affordable by stacking up group discounts, purchasing solar systems in bulk and looking for federal and local financial incentives. When Bob and Sharon Baker approached Solarize Fairbanks, they had been “wanting to learn about solar power for quite a long time.” “With the incentives from the group discount and the federal tax credit still available, it was now...

An Inuit carver works on his art on the shore of Frobisher Bay in the Canadian town of Iqaluit, Nunavut. (CNS photo/Shaun Best, Reuters) Editor's note: This story originally appeared in EOS and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. On one level, the Arctic and the U.S. Southwest have little in common: One has kilometers of bone-chilling temperatures, ice, and months of darkness; the other has towering cliffs of red rock, parched soil, and broiling summers. But Indigenous peoples in each r...

Brian Adams Decades of legal action, speculation and political wrangling over drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge culminated in an underwhelming lease sale on Jan. 6. Only three parties placed bids for drilling rights on the land on the state’s North Slope, which is considered crucial habitat for the Porcupine caribou herd. The sale garnered about $14 million, according to the Bureau of Land Management — much less than a 2017 Congressional Budget Office estimate, which projected that two lease sales in the refuge would collectively amass $2.2 billio...