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The rule from the Bureau of Land Management will allow public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.
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The Interior Department will allocate more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change. The funding is designed to help them adapt to climate threats, including relocating infrastructure.
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Top U.S. officials say they are entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands, water and other resources.
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President Biden told Native American nations gathered for a summit Wednesday that his administration was working to heal the wrongs of the past as he signed an executive order that makes it easier for Indigenous peoples to access federal funding and have greater autonomy over how to spend it.
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Advocates are calling out New Mexico’s governor for disbanding a task force that crafted recommendations to address the high rate of killings and missing person cases in Native American communities.
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Survivors of government-backed Native American boarding schools and their descendants shared their experiences as U.S. officials made a final stop in Montana on a yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has launched a project to document stories of Indigenous people who attended federal boarding schools.
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In an effort to safeguard sacred tribal lands, federal authorities announced a plan to protect more than 4,000 acres within the Placitas area in New Mexico’s Sandoval County.
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President Joe Biden today will announce his declaration of a nearly million-acre national monument near Grand Canyon National Park. The designation will make permanent a 2012 ban on new uranium mining claims in the area.
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A U.S. House bill under consideration would reverse protections put in place last month by the Department of the Interior near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.