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American Indian Tribes Face Struggles With Federal Shutdown
By not in system - AOL NewsFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The threat of a government shutdown Friday has America Indian leaders scrambling to determine what the stalemate on Capitol Hill would mean for their reservations, where the federal government's presence often plays a vital role in everything from law enforcement and social services to schools. The looming shutdown would be especially troublesome for tribes that receive such essential services as police and health care directly from federal employees, said Jacqueline Johnson Pata, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. Those tribes tend to be the ...
Climate Change Puts Tribal Way of Life at Risk
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(Nov. 21) -- Streams that support cold-water fish are getting warmer. Traditional native plants are becoming harder to find. And some animal migratory patterns have been disrupted. Native American tribes own and manage 5 percent of the land in the U.S. -- lands that are rich with renewable resources. But Native Americans are disproportionately affected by climate change. And droughts, temperature changes and altered animal behavior are just some of the ways climate change is being acutely felt on reservations in the West, putting tribal environments, identity and cultural traditions at risk, ...
U.S. Plans Pakistan Awakening
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA classified military strategy paper under review by U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, FL, proposes an expanded U.S. military role in tribal areas of Pakistan. The document, drafted by members of the U.S. Special Forces Command and submitted for approval by counterintelligence officials, seeks to build a strategy of fighting al-Qaeda in Pakistan's lawless Waziristan Province that is modeled on the success in Iraq's Anbar Province. Known as the Anbar Awakening, tribal leaders in that formerly troubled part of the country suddenly turned on al-Qaeda fighters and sided with coalition ...
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