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The U.S. Department of the Interior says it’ll allocate nearly $80 million for wildfire management throughout the country.
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The Biden administration will allocate $10 million in infrastructure funds to several ecosystem restoration and mine hazard reduction projects in Arizona.
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Native American families remain frustrated by high rates of violence, missing persons cases and unsolved killings. The Biden administration has missed the deadline for responding to recommendations from a special commission that spent months traveling the country to hear the heartbreaking stories of families with missing loved ones.
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A Nevada tribe is gearing up for a different kind of fight against the U.S. government as it tries to build more public support for protecting Native American sacred sites.
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The advisory committee tasked with combating the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people says the U.S. government needs to spend more money on public safety and criminal justice.
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Federal officials say that conditions have improved on the Colorado River to the point that a three-state plan to reduce water use should keep the river basin on stable footing for several years.
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At the end of the week, federal wildland firefighters could take steep, across-the-board pay cuts without action from Congress, which advocates and officials fear could trigger mass resignations within the workforce.
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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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The U.S. Department of the Interior has launched a new large-scale water recycling program aimed at creating new water supplies that are less vulnerable to drought and climate change.
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A group focused on shedding more light on the troubled legacy of boarding schools where Indigenous children were stripped of their culture and language as part of assimilation efforts released a new interactive map that includes dozens of additional schools in the U.S. and Canada.