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Haaland tour casts light on Native boarding school abuses

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Oklahoma on Saturday for the first stop on a yearlong nationwide tour to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities

The Independent UK

Biden plan could allow new offshore drilling in Gulf of Mexico

His campaign promise to end fossil fuel development on public lands was thwarted by U.S. courts, high gas prices and Russia’s domination of Western European energy.

The Texas Tribune

A Biden administration offshore drilling proposal would allow up to 11 sales

The proposal brought immediate backlash from environmentalists who accused Biden of betraying the climate cause, while oil industry officials said it would do little to counter high energy prices.

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1st Native American treasurer to push economic development

The nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer comes from a line of chiefs who instilled the importance of keeping her tribe healthy and “leaving fooprints” to follow for those who come behind

The Independent UK

The U.S. is reckoning with its troubled past of Indian boarding schools

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and tribal leaders are advocating for a congressional commission to examine the impacts of the federal Native American forced-assimilation policy.

WEKU

President Biden nominates 1st Native American US treasurer

A Native American has been nominated to be U.S. treasurer, a historic first

The Independent UK

US adds $103M for wildfire hazards and land rehabilitation

The U.S. is adding $103 million this year for wildfire risk reduction and burned-area rehabilitation throughout the country as well as establishing an interagency wildland firefighter well-being program

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Native children’s remains in US to be returned to families

Disinterment at cemetery in Pennsylvania comes as US investigates abuses against Native children at boarding schools.

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Massacre leader’s name scrubbed from Yellowstone mountain

Native Montanans agreed on new name of First Peoples Mountain to ‘honour victims of such inhumane acts of genocide’

The Independent UK

Yellowstone renames mountain linked to massacre of Native Americans

Peak renamed First Peoples Mountain was known as Mount Doane after Gustavus Doane who helmed an attack that killed at least 173 people in 1870

The Guardian - US

National parks to phase out plastic bottles and single-use products, Interior Department says

DENVER — America’s national parks and other federally managed lands will phase out sales of plastic bottles and single-use products in the hopes of cutting pollution, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced this week.

The Denver Post

Native American youth to be tapped for conservation projects

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has rolled out guidelines for a new youth service program meant to create job opportunities for Native Americans while boosting their cultural connections to nature through conservation projects on tribal and public land

The Independent UK

Interior phasing out plastic water bottles at national parks

The Interior Department says it will phase out sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use products at national parks and on other public lands over the next decade, targeting a major source of U.S. pollution

The Independent UK

US government to ban single-use plastic in national parks

Biden officials make announcement on World Oceans Day in effort to stem huge tide of pollution from plastic bottles and packaging

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US Interior Secretary Haaland tests positive for COVID-19

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has tested positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms

The Independent UK

Infrastructure plan: $33M to clean up hundreds of oil wells

The Biden administration says $33 million in infrastructure money will be used to clean up some 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land

WEKU

Haaland seeks healing for Native American boarding school survivors

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about her department's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.

The Independent UK

House approves bill to take aim at gasoline 'price gouging'

A closely divided House has approved legislation to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies as prices at the pump continue to soar

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The Independent UK

US grappling with Native American boarding school history

The U.S. government has not been open to investigating its role in stripping Native Americans of their cultures and identities in boarding schools

The Independent UK

US reckoning with role in Native American boarding schools

The U.S. government has not been open to investigating its role in stripping Native Americans of their cultures and identities in boarding schools

The Independent UK

Biden cancels offshore oil lease sales in Gulf Coast, Alaska

The Biden administration says it is canceling three oil and gas lease sales scheduled in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska

WEKU

U.S. report identifies burial sites linked to boarding schools for Native Americans

A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial sites.

The Independent UK

Federal report finds burial sites and details abuse among Native American children at government boarding schools

Interior Department’s stunning report identifies more than 50 burial sites and details forced assimilation agenda that lasted through 1960s

Al Jazeera

US gov’t: At least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools

Boarding schools were part of a policy to sever cultural traditions and take land from Indigenous people, report finds.

Axios

Hundreds of children died in Native American boarding schools, report finds

A new report released by the Interior Department reveals the scope of the rampant abuse Native American children suffered.

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