Biden Sets Out Oil, Gas Leasing Reform, Stops Short of Ban

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday recommended an overhaul of the nation’s oil and gas leasing program to focus on areas that are most suitable for energy development and raise costs for energy companies to drill on public lands and water. The long-awaited report by the Interior Department […]

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Native-owned Brewery Honors Indigenous Land With Beer Labels

our sleeve. Knowing the ancestral lands your beer was brewed upon! Yes. You are on native land and so is your beer! In celebration and advancement of Indigenous Peoples Day and Native American Heritage Month, Bow and Arrow present the Native Land Label. A collaboration of breweries using a land acknowledgment label. If you haven’t heard of an “ indigenous land acknowledgment”, you may have not been to a large native gathering in the last five years. A now regular part of the tools we as native people use to offset the usual colonial constructs, is being able to proudly acknowledge who’s tribal ancestral lands we stand on at any time. The “Americas” north and south were all once native land and it is important for those residing on those territories to understand who was there before them, who is there currently, and whose indigenous land it will always be.
As mentioned above, formal meeting places and large public group introductions are the normal places you hear this knowledge brought to the forefront, but that will soon change. Bow and Arrow Brewing will soon release the Native Land label, an idea that allows brewers nationwide, Native or not, to share their local ancestral land identity with their consumers! This is how it works: A brewery signs up with Bow and Arrow, they must discover the land claim and also promise to provide a part of the sales to a Native American non-profit. Bow and Arrow’s proceeds will provide help to First Nations Development Institute for their Stewarding Native Lands initiative. The label artwork will be sent to the participating breweries to package their own Native Land Label locally from NM to New Hampshire!

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Lawmakers Push to Stop Gravel Mining on Sacred Pueblo Land. Again.

With environmental awareness heightened by climate change, hopefully, the second time will be the charm for 4,200 acres of land sacred to New Mexico’s pueblos.  The Buffalo Tract Protection Act (SB 180) seeks to withdraw 4,200 acres of Bureau of Land Management land near Placitas, New Mexico from all forms of mineral development, particularly gravel […]

Biden Signs Executive Order To Combat Crime and Trafficking On Native Lands

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday ordered several Cabinet departments to work together to combat human trafficking and crime on Native lands, where violent crime rates are more than double the national average. Speaking at a White House summit on tribal nations, Biden signed an executive order tasking […]

Oil & Gas Leases On Hold Around Chaco Canyon

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New oil and gas leasing within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of Chaco Culture National Historical Park will be prohibited for the next two years as officials consider a proposal to withdraw federal land in the area from development for a 20-year period, the U.S. Department […]

Citizens Redistricting Committee Endorsed These Maps

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An advisory board on redistricting endorsed several plans for realigning the boundaries of political districts across New Mexico on Friday, backing proposed congressional districts that would consolidate Native American representation and strengthen a Hispanic majority. The recommendations of the Citizens Redistricting Committee are a nonbinding reference point for the Legislature […]