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Center for Biological Diversity: TUCSON, Ariz.― Community events next week will rally support for the Save Oak Flat Act and send off members of Apache Stronghold as they start a cross-country road trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the bill’s passage. Stronghold leaders, including former San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman Wendsler Nosie Sr., will attend a community event Sunday and an interfaith blessing Thursday evening.

House committee markup on Save Oak Flat Act and Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Indianz.Com The first is H.R.1884, the Save Oak Flat Act. The bill permanently protects Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in Arizona, from being used for a massive copper mine. The second item of interest is H.R.443, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act. The bill authorizes the Indian Health Service to convey property to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in order to expand health care for Native people in Anchorage, Alaska. Prior...

Natural Resources Committee gears up for full week of hearings FILE PHOTO State representatives welcome public to watch LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - The Natural Resources Committee is holding four livestreamed hearings next week to discuss public lands accessibility, wildlife trafficking and wildfire preparedness during climate change. Tuesday, April 27, 12 p.m. EST The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, led by Chair Katie Porter (D-Calif.), will host an oversight hearing titled  Accessibility for People with Disabilities on National Parks and Public Lands. People with disab...

Author This is an abridged excerpt of the introduction to . Photo: Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com Colonialism has deprived Indigenous people, and all people who are affected by it, of the means to develop according to our needs, principles and values. It begins with the land. We have been made “Indians” only because we have the most precious commodity to the settler states: land. Vigilante, cop and soldier often stand between us, our connections to the land and justice. “Land back” strikes fear in the heart of the settler. But as we show here, it’s the soundest environmental pol...

Time: 12:00 PM On  Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) via the Cisco WebEx online video conferencing platform, and livestreamed on the Committee’s  YouTube pages, the Committee on Natural Resources is scheduled to hold a markup to consider the following bills:  H.R. 443 (Rep. Young), To convey land in Anchorage, Alaska, to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and for other purposes.  Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act. H.R. 1029 (Rep. Steube), To Waive the application fee for any special use permit for veterans' special events at war memor...