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Accessing and Protecting Nature’s Most Precious Resource: Water
On the one hand, Native Americans are fighting to keep their water sources clean. On the other, they are fighting to have any water at all.
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Education for Self-Determination and Quality of Life
The Navajo Nation is working to improve the quality of education by transferring operation of more than 30 schools from U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) control, to management by the Navajo Nation’s Department of Education.
A Letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
We at PWNA honor the self-determination and sovereignty of Native American tribes throughout the U.S. We respect and support the need for each tribe to have a voice in the decisions that impact their land, their natural resources, their sacred sites and their people.
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Tribes Leading the Way: 5 Points of Progress
For American Indian reservations, progress toward economic development, infrastructure and social change often comes in small increments but adds up to big gains over time. Here are 5 points of progress we’ve seen in recent years for the tribes in our service area…
Staying Warm on the Reservations
How could it be that in 2014 a woman on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota froze, when the state has grown from the seventh to the third largest of U.S. crude oil producers? While the passing of Debbie Dogskin and the oil boom in North Dakota may seem unrelated, consider the thousands […]
President Obama Visits the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
President Obama and the First Lady will be visiting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to meet with tribal leaders and Native youth about the poverty they face and to announced new initiatives related to tribal economies and education.