Archive for August, 2011

Farmers or ranchers must submit a completed claims package if they wish to participate in the claims process. Keepseagle class counsel is holding a number of meetings in the coming months throughout Indian Country to provide assistance to More >

This month, ten students from the Native American Community Academy Conservation Corps are taking an innovative summer service-learning program that addresses the mind, body, and spirit through bicycling, gardening and art. “Cycles of Life” is retracing the Trail of the Ancients from Zuni to Taos Pueblo. The trip offers an indigenous, holistic way of viewing our world that reconnects the riders to their ancestors and the land. The youth have built and customized their own bicycles for their “Journey on the Healing Path.” For more info, visit tripsforkidsriogrande.org or email hforeman@unm.edu.

The country is establishing 11 new rights for nature. They are: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; More >

Solar Wind’s solar technology installed for phone service provides 7 amps and 20 volts of power with a battery that holds a charge for seven days. The company is working on expanding to include broadband service.

SWC has been on a mission to improve the Navajo Nation by connecting More >

SFCC will work with the Jaynes Corporation, NM Veterans Administration, eight Northern Indian Pueblos, and local employers to facilitate job placement after providing 180 hours of training in solid waste management, energy efficiency technologies, and renewable energy preparation and installation. Training More >

Salatin’s family farm, Polyface Inc. (“The Farm of Many Faces”) has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, and Gourmet. The farm’s profile on the Lives of the 21st Century series on ABC World News generated more chat room hits than any other segment to date. The farm also achieved iconic status upon being cited in the the NY Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Salatin was also featured in the Academy nominated film, Food More >

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), until now, has had no permitting process for large facilities such as power plants that emit more than 100 tons of pollutants a year, or for smaller ones, such as gas stations, dry cleaners or biomass boilers on tribal lands where national standards haven’t been met. Tribes with casinos in rural areas sometimes More >

When we lived at our ancestral home, Puje, commonly known as Puye, 10 miles from our village at Santa Clara, we always took care of the land: planting and cultivating indigenous foods and harvesting the myriad wild plants and animals. In the 1300s life was difficult because of the dry and harsh climatic conditions; nonetheless, my ancestors survived for hundreds of years by caring for and living off the land. Then, by the 1400s, we moved down from the mountains and established our village and farms alongside the Rio Grande (P’o suwae-geh), carrying our seasonal traditions with us. More >