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EPA Funds Environmental Health Research for Tribal Communities
2014-07-23 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA is awarding tribal environmental health research grants to 6 groups, including universities and tribes, to identify and reduce tribal health risks associated with climate change, indoor wood smoke exposure, environmental asthma, waterborne diseases, and other concerns. Recipients include Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Yurok Tribe, Little Big Horn College, University of Tulsa, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Amazon tribal chief SOS: the white man is destroying everything
2014-06-10 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Brazilian tribal leader who enlisted Sting to help save the Amazon rainforest has accused the developed world of being intent on destroying everything and urged its citizens to fundamentally change the way they think. Twenty-five years ago, Chief Raoni Metuktire, of the indigenous Kayapo population, shot to international prominence as his campaign against hydroelectric dams on the Xingu river galvanized The Polices frontman. With the help of Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, Chief Raoni...
Climate disruptions hitting more and more tribal nations
2014-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country Today: Native Americans have long had a close relationship with their lands and waterssacred places and resources that define their lives. The disruptions wrought by a warming climate are forcing abrupt cultural changes on peoples with a long reliance on a once stable ecosystem. Among the special issues affecting tribes, the 2013 Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwestern United States (SWCA) cited cultural and religious impacts, impacts to sustainable livelihoods, population emigration, and threats...
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Six individuals running for tribal president
2014-05-07 05:10:35| Footwear - Topix.net
Christopher C. Deschene and Dale Edison Tsosie, both of LeChee Chapter in Arizona, filed their applications for the presidency in April, according to the Navajo Election Administration.
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Whatcom Museum in Bellingham features intricate paintings by tribal artist Lyle Wilson...
2014-04-20 17:31:42| Steel - Topix.net
Following its well-acclaimed, "Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscape Art, 1775-2012,'' the city-owned museum is currently featuring an exhibit of magnificent Northwest tribal art by Lyle Wilson and has just opened a featured show from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation of Portland.
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