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Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
Jan 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande used to provide water on a bell curve, with powerful floods in the spring and summer and lower and slower flows in the winter. Now the dams release about 20% of what naturally ...
The Supreme Court’s attack on tribal sovereignty, explained
Jul 1, 2022 · As part of its recent precedent-breaking spree, the U.S. Supreme Court turned federal Indian law on its head this week on Wednesday, June 29. In the case of Oklahoma v.Castro-Huerta, a majority of ...
The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
May 18, 2020 · The year was 2017, the month was August. America was 241 years old, and totems of its racist past were crumbling. One of the Northwest’s largest tributes to Confederate soldiers — an 8-foot ...
States own lands on reservations. To use them, tribes must pay.
Sep 16, 2024 · The state trust lands that came from sanctioned land grabs of the early 20th century helped bolster state economies and continue to underwrite non-Indian institutions while infringing on tribal ...
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Nov 6, 2024 · Support nonprofit news. High Country News relies on donations as well as subscription fees to produce independent reporting on the West. Help continue the legacy of reader-supported journalism by ...
The power of atmospheric rivers, explained - High Country News
Jan 4, 2023 · Just days into 2023, Californians braced for the latest in a series of atmospheric river storms that National Weather Service forecasters called “impressive,” “debilitating” and “brutal.”
A reality check on Biden’s ‘30 by 30’ conservation plan
Jun 23, 2021 · A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed an executive order that announced his commitment to protecting 30% of U.S. land and water — over 720 million acres — by 2030.
How, 150 years ago, the Homestead Act transformed the West
Dec 9, 2012 · Of course, fraud flourished. Conniving ranchers sent their cowboys to homestead key springs and land along creeks. Tales are told of homesteaders swearing on the Bible that they had built a 10-by ...
The ways Afro-Indigenous people are asked to navigate their …
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