The State of Nebraska’s refusal to halt alcohol sales to the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from its border town of Whiteclay gets an in-depth look in this award-winning documentary about a century-old problem. Four off-sale beer stores in this...

Winnipeg, Man. — A group of Pimicikamak citizens from Cross Lake will arrive at Manitoba Hydro headquarters tomorrow, June 19, to deliver their own version of the “Friendly Reminder Notices” that Hydro has sent to many homes in Cross Lake....

WHITE CLAY, NEBRASKA – Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer was arrested today [June 17] in White Clay, Nebraska. It was not immediately known what he is charged with at press time. He was reportedly taken to Rushville, Nebraska for booking,...

As CNN reported in October 2011, the oil boom at the Bakken formation in the Dakotas and Montana comes with a price. The resultant crime wave, due to tens of thousands of oil workers descending on the area and looking to party, has overwhelmed small town...

Washington, DC – On Friday, 12 civil society organizations urged the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, to conduct a formal investigation into the human rights impacts of the Barro Blanco dam located...

The ongoing saga around ‘human safaris’ and the closure of the Andaman-Nicobar trunk road took a new turn this week, providing some much-needed leverage in the campaign to end this despicable phenomena. Long decried as a deeply immoral practice by groups...

With both the City of Seattle and Metro Vancouver opposing major new coal export terminals proposed for the Salish Sea that spans the Washington-British Columbia border, the interests of Wall Street heavies like Goldman Sachs, Peabody Energy and Warren...

In my comment on the campus fossil fuel divestment campaign, I noted that divestment won’t change a thing environmentally. It will only change ownership of some shares from public institutions to private ones–like the banks we bailed out with...

As Dawn Paley reports, the Rule of U.S. Law in Mexico is changing Mexican jurisprudence from an inquisitive to an accusative criminal process. Designed to mesh with the U.S.-sponsored drug war, the legal forms imposed by USAID on Mexico have little to do...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (LTLT) celebrated the deed signing of the Hall Mountain Tract in Macon County back to tribal ownership on May 31. Hall Mountain, a 108 acre tract of land, is the...