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Court allows Dakota Access Pipeline to proceed
Amid unprecedented protests, a federal appeals court ruled against Native American tribes, allowing construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline to move forward.
Tag: Native America
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Mohawk band forms indigenous legal system
The Mohawk band council of Akwesasne introduced its own legal system independent of Canada's federal system, marking the first such indigenous judiciary in the country.
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Lakota protesters block pipeline construction
Native Americans, ranchers and farmers launched a blockade of a highway in North Dakota to bar crews from reaching the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
North America
‘Moorish’ connection in Baton Rouge shootings
The man named in the vigilante-style killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge was apparently a follower of the often misunderstood Moorish Science movement.
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Canada: court blocks Northern Gateway pipeline
Canada's Federal Court of Appeal overturned approval of Enbridge energy company's Northern Gateway pipeline that would link Alberta's oil sands to British Columbia's coast.
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De Beers pressured in First Nation suicide crisis
De Beers operates a diamond mine on lands of northern Ontario's suicide-striken Cree community of Attawapiskat—where it pays a pittance in royalties despite record profits.
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Canada high court to hear prior consultation case
Canada's Supreme Court announced that it will review two decisions of the National Energy Board related to oil development and aboriginal consultation.
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Mohawks threaten to block Energy East pipeline
The Mohawk nation is threatening to do everything legally in its power to block TransCanada's Energy East pipeline project, calling it a threat to their way of life.
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Louisiana tribe becomes first US ‘climate refugees’
An Indian tribe deep in the Louisiana bayou became the United States' first "climate refugees" when the federal government awarded them $48 million to relocate.
North America
Paiute land at issue in Oregon militia showdown
The take-over of federal lands in eastern Oregon by a right-wing militia builds on a rancher land-grab that began when the Paiute Indians were usurped in the 1878 Bannock War.
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Retreat on Arctic drilling —push to open ANWR
The Interior Department announced the cancellation of two pending Arctic offshore lease sales—as Alaska's governor makes a new push to open the ANWR to oil companies.
New York City
9-11 at fourteen: spectacle commodified
9-11 still provides an occasion for jingoism and war propaganda. But the day's commodification and transformation into an empty spectacle is now even more disturbing.