2022 Land & Water News Stories
What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns? (High Country News) 12/30/22
The Fight of the Salmon People (ProPublica) 12/28/22
US Senate advances water bills for tribes in Arizona (Arizona Public Media) 12/20/22
Colorado River water users convening amid crisis concerns (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 12/20/22
New Mexico ‘ordering’ 6.5 billion gallons of water from Jicarilla Apache Nation (KRQE) 12/14/22
Rulemaking to update land-into-trust process for tribes and individual Indians (JD Supra) 12/14/22
How tribes are reclaiming and protecting their ancestral lands from coast to coast (Audubon Magazine) 12/14/22
Peyron testifies in front of Congress about Tule River Tribe's water crisis (Porterville Recorder) 11/18/22
BIA announces “historic” land acquisition in Alaska (Native News Online) 11/18/22
Klamath River dams: Regulators clear path for largest dam demolition in history (The Columbian) 11/17/22
After long fight, tribal water bills get primary OK; still far from final (AZ Mirror) 11/17/22
Tribal nations fight for influence on the Colorado River (High Country News) 11/16/22
Counties pressured to object to CSKT compact (Daily Inter Lake) 11/15/22
Supreme Court to hear water dispute between Navajo, U.S. government (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 11/8/22
Treaty and fishing rights activist Billy Frank: the Fish Wars (Library of Congress) 11/3/22
From dominance to stewardship: Chuck Sams’ Indigenous approach to the NPS (High Country News) 11/1/22
Northern California tribe sues U.S. over damage to Trinity River and its fisheries (Los Angeles Times) 10/31/22
‘Till the last drop: As water grows scarce in Utah, urban and rural needs come to a head (The Daily Yonder) 10/25/22
New policy brief cites geographic information system as tool for landback strategies (Native News Online) 10/20/22
How tribal co-managing movements are transforming the conservation of public lands (Popular Science) 10/10/22
Which Indigenous lands are you on? This map will show you (NPR) 10/10/22
Victory for California Indigenous peoples: AB 2022 Signed into law prohibiting racist place names (Indian Country Today) 9/29/22
Water negotiating: 'You cannot discount us' (Indian Country Today) 9/28/22
Yak Titʸu Titʸu Yak Tiłhini say it’s time to return Diablo Canyon lands to Indigenous hands (High Country News) 9/20/22
California senators introduce legislation to recognize Tule River Tribe’s water rights (Native News Online) 9/20/22
New Mexico’s Heinrich, Leger Fernández introduce bicameral bills to approve water rights settlements for 4 pueblos (Native News Online) 9/20/22
State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights (Indian Country Today) 9/17/22
U.S. changes names of places with racist term for Native women (Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) 9/11/22
Wounded Knee land comes home at last (Indian Country Today) 9/9/22
District court says Osage Reservation disestablished (Indian Country Today) 9/6/22
Californian First Nations tribes fight to save salmon from defiant ranchers amid water crisis (National Indigenous Times) 8/31/22
Colorado River Basin tribes work to protect their water rights (High Country News) 8/26/22
‘We’re dwindling like the salmon’: the Indigenous nations fighting for water rights (The Guardian) 8/26/22
50 Acres of Ancestral Homeland Repatriated to the Wiyot Tribe (Native News Online) 8/24/22
Rapid City community asks feds to intervene in land dispute (Indian Country Today) 8/24/22
Bruce Babbitt: Tribes need to be involved in water talks (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 8/23/22
Prairie Band Potawatomi take historic step toward reclaiming land (Indian Country Today) 8/11/22
Interior Sec. Haaland Announces Members of Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names (Native News Online) 8/9/2022
Arizona tribes wait for water as settlements languish in courtrooms and bureaucracy (AZCentral) 8/9/2022
Their pleas for water were long ignored. Now tribes are gaining a voice on the Colorado River (The Spectrum) 8/8/2022
Meet the group that's been bringing bison back to tribal lands for 30 lands (Civil Eats) 7/26/22
What Indigenous leaders think about co-managing Bears Ears with the feds (High Country News) 7/22/22
Hualapai leader urges Senate to OK water plan, as wells fail in drought (Indianz) 7/21/22
Red Cliff Ojibwe Nation celebrates ‘landmark moment’ with return of final 900 acres of land from Bayfield County (Marshfield News Herald) 7/19/22
Washoe Tribe, TRPA get $3.4 million to combat aquatic invasive species at Tahoe (Tahoe Daily Tribune) 7/19/22
Navajo Nation assesses safety and shoreline issues for Navajo region at Lake Powell (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 7/19/22
Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma makes history declaring rights of rivers (Indian Country Today) 7/18/22
Northern Minnesota tribes sue EPA over state's new water quality standards (MPR News) 7/15/22
Hoopa Valley families, youths help clean Trinity River (Eureka Times-Standard) 7/11/22
Karuk Tribe official brings traditional knowledge to federal wildlife commission (Northcoast Journal) 7/8/22
Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe and Rayonier negotiate historic deals to purchase land bank (Native News Online) 7/5/22
'Our homelands are important': Muscogee Nation works to deepen involvement with Okefenokee Swamp (WABE) 7/6/22
Onondaga Nation will regain 1,000 acres of New York forest in historic agreement (CNN) 7/2/22
Who does the state of Wyoming consider a poacher? (High Country News) 7/1/22
Appeal filed in BIA road washout lawsuit (The Bismarck Tribune) 6/23/22
Navajo ‘cheated’ for land, water: Antelope Point Marina officials say upgrades needed at project site (Navajo Times) 6/20/22
Nez Perce take over fish production at Dworshak (Yahoo! News) 6/17/22
Opinion: Tribal Nations must be at the table to find the West’s water solutions (The Colorado Sun) 6/16/22
Southern Ute, Ute Mountain tribes to receive funding for water, sanitation improvements (The Durango Herald) 6/15/22
Movement to remove war criminal's name in Yellowstone National Park began in a Northern Cheyenne home (Red Lake Nation News) 6/15/22
Mni Ki Wakan Water Summit to take place August 16-18 (Cultural Survival) 6/8/22
Bois Forte Band gets 28,000 acres of land back in northern Minnesota (Native News Online) 6/7/22
Navajo Nation leaders finalize Navajo Utah Water Settlement Act (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 6/7/22
Why the Muscogee (Creek) Nation gets a say on the Okefenokee mine proposal (WABE) 6/6/22
‘Dreams coming true’: Federal water rights agreement to bring water to Utah Diné (Navajo Times) 6/2/22
Earthjustice applauds EPA's proposal to restore state and tribal authority under Clean Water Act (Earthjustice) 6/2/22
Access to clean water, rights to Colorado River are high priorities for tribes (Cronkite News) 5/31/22
Havasupai Tribe sends letter of opposition to Arizona Department of Environmental Quality; reiterates opposition to Pinyon Plain Mine aquifer protection permit (Indian Country Today) 5/31/22
Western Alaska salmon numbers continue to fall — and that’s a serious threat to food security and Indigenous cultures (Anchorage Daily News) 5/31/22
Seaside towns offer free beach passes to Native Americans (The Turtle Island News) 5/30/22
Return of the buffalo (Flathead Beacon) 5/25/22
Tribes, environmental groups demand better management of the Bay-Delta (Capital Public Radio) 5/24/22
‘We are still here’: Tribes reclaiming out-of-state ancestral homelands (Indianz) 5/24/22
Ute Indian Tribe successful in leading national effort to rescind U.S. historical position on tribal water law (Indian Country Today) 5/19/22
Ktunaxa Nation outraged about lack of government action on cross-border water pollution (My East Kootenai Now) 5/18/22
Richmond: Point Molate to be sold for $400 to Native American tribe after 270-acre development plan fizzles (East Bay Times) 5/18/22
Pueblos again seek inclusion in Rio Grande decision-making (Indian Country Today) 5/17/22
The Hopi farmer championing Indigenous agricultural knowledge (Quebec News Tribune) 5/15/22
Significant Washington land returned to the Colville Tribe (Popular Resistance) 5/10/22
Columbia River treaty fishing sites to get upgrades (Indian Country Today) 5/6/22
Seneca Nation puts City of Olean on notice for Clean Water Act violations (Indian Country Today) 5/4/22
How the Sicangu Lakota community are restoring food sovereignty and health of the prairie rangeland (Cultural Survival) 4/30/22
Beyond “paper” water: The complexities of fully leveraging tribal water rights (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) 5/3/22
Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management (Nature Communications) 5/3/22
Santa Clara Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo, and Pueblo of Santa Ana tribal leaders meet with FEMA deputy administrator to discuss wildfires (Native News Online) 5/3/22
Cherokee Nation reaches historic agreement with National Park Service (Native News Online) 5/1/22
EPA approves the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water quality standards (The Durango Herald) 4/29/22
Historic revision to Oregon forest law excludes important group (Indian Country Today) 4/21/22
Oregon tribe opposes Klamath River water release for farmers (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 4/19/22
Yurok Tribe plans condor reintroduction, partners with California to manage park visitor center (Tribal Business News) 4/18/22
Ojibwe perspectives toward proper wolf stewardship and Wisconsin's February 2021 wolf hunting season (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution) 4/14/22
The Experiment Podcast: Should we return national parks to Native Americans? (The Atlantic) 4/14/22
Nipmuc Nation wants return of ancestral land in Belchertown (Daily Hampshire Gazette) 4/12/22
MSU graduate student works to understand, control invasive grass on Crow Reservation (Billings Gazette) 4/11/22
Advocates rally for safe drinking water for Passamaquoddy Tribe (Portland Press-Herald) 4/11/22
Tribes assert water rights on Colorado River Basin (The Durango Herald) 4/7/22
Sipayik's water crisis (Native News Online) 4/5/22
The problem, practicality, and power of land acknowledgements (5280) April 2022
How the Hoopa Valley Tribe monitors a rare carnivore (Salon) 4/3/22
In affluent Southampton, the Grave Protection Warrior Society toils to preserve and protect ancestral homelands (Native News Online) 4/2/22
State of Montana initiates Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes land swap (Missoula Current) 4/1/22
Rappahannock Tribe reacquires ancestral Virginia land 350 years later (The Washington Post) 4/1/22
Interior is pushing states to replace derogatory place names with colonial ones (High Country News) 3/31/22
Tribes assume full management of bison range (Flathead Beacon) 3/28/22
Tribes issue trespass notice to Grand Gateway Hotel owners (Rapid City Journal) 3/28/22
Illinois House adopts bill to support Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation land reclamation (Northern Public Radio) 3/24/22
Two Arizona tribal leaders make case for critically needed water projects (Cronkite News) 3/23/22
'The theft of our land': In Newsom's $100M landback proposal, Indigenous advocates see progess--and have questions (KQED) 3/22/22
How Indigenous burning practices could revitalize a northern Minnesota forest (St Paul Mag) 3/20/22
Salmon release in Hangman Creek 'a great thing' for Coeur d'Alene Tribe (Spokane Public Radio) 3/19/22
Colorado eyes changing mountain name tied to Sand Creek massacre at request of Cheyenne, Arapaho tribes (The Colorado Sun) 3/16/22
ELC supports efforts by tribes and environmental justice advocates to reframe California water rights (Stanford Law School Blog) 3/16/22
U.S. district court affirms Saint Regis Mohawk's reservation boundaries (Native News Online) 3/15/22
Legislation introduced in Illinois legislature calls for restoration of Prairie Band Potawatomi reservation near Chicago (Native News Online) 3/12/22
National Parks leader pledges more inclusion of Native Americans in land management (Patch) 3/11/22
Judge affirms that 61,000-acre Mille Lacs Reservation still exists. What does that mean? (MPR News) 3/10/22
Fuel in water deepens Native Hawaiians’ distrust of military (Indian Country Today) 3/7/22
'This is our backyard': Quapaw Nation asserts more control over environment within its reservation (KOSU) 3/1/22
Colorado River, stolen by law (High Country News) 3/1/22
Do salmon have rights? (Grist) 3/1/22
How Sitting Bull's fight for Indigenous land rights shaped the creation of Yellowstone National Park (Smithsonian Mag) 3/1/22
More than 600 geographic sites across the US will be renamed, replacing a derogatory term for Indigenous women used for decades (Jackson Progress-Argus) 2/27/22
A guide to changing racist and offensive names on public lands (The Wilderness Society) 2/23/22
Tribe leads coalition to remove Ela Dam (Smoky Mountain News) 2/23/22
Stantec supports The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde with revitalization of historic Blue Heron Paper Mill brownfield site (Informed Infrastructure) 2/23/22
NAPI: Food sovereignty, production, security an important part of Navajo Nation’s future (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 2/22/22
Who’s in charge of fixing the environment in eastern Oklahoma? (Grist) 2/22/22
Wind River conservationist talks broken Indigenous water rights and Yellowstone (Wyoming Public Media) 2/18/22
The film "Powerlands" reveals a sobering story of environmental and cultural crisis on Indigenous lands (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 2/15/22
How 'wilderness' was invented without Indigenous peoples (Science) 2/15/22
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park to protect Native ancestral lands from development (USA Today) 2/14/22
Federal Great Lakes restoration program should focus on protection and flexibility, says Ojibwe leader (Great Lakes Now) 2/9/22
Oregon coastal tribe takes on decline of Chinook salmon through unique partnership (The Oregonian) 2/8/22
The revival of Indigenous subsistence whaling hangs in the balance (Civil Eats) 2/8/22
Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians seeks tribal-state co-management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest (The Willits News) 2/7/22
Sacred land: Last Odawa family retains Emmet County land more than 100 years after allotment (Traverse City Record Eagle) 2/6/22
Tribal nations are locked inside the U.S. water regime (High Country News) 1/31/22
The dizzying scope of abandoned mine hazards on public lands (High Country News) 1/28/22
Feds oppose latest legal effort to block tribe's reservation (Char-Koosta News) 1/27/22
Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project projected to serve thousands of people (Indianz) 1/27/22
The LandBack movement is decolonizing Indigenous land across the Americas (Indianz) 1/27/22
The Indigenous communities rising up to protect the gray wolf (NPR) 1/26/22
California redwood forest returned to native tribal group (NBC) 1/25/22
Hoping for an end to yearslong treaty rights fight (Indian Country Today) 1/25/22
History: Hidden Treaty of Temecula robbed Indigenous people of their lands (Desert Sun) 1/23/22
Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Tribes supports cooperative management of wildlife resources throughout the reservations (Indian Country Today) 1/21/22
Taos Pueblo scolds Interstate Stream Commission for lack of communication on cloud seeding (Taos News) 1/20/22
How the Indigenous landback movement is poised to change conservation (Grist) 1/13/22
Indigenous groups lead the fight for land protection in the U.S. (BeLatina) 1/4/22
Ime Salazar: 'Our home was lost’ (Indian Country Today) 1/5/21
Indigenous feminism flows through the fight for water rights on the Rio Grande (High Country News) 1/1/22
