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Native Americans face a six-fold increased risk of flash floods because of climate change in the next two years. That is one of the predictions in a new study led by the University of Oklahoma. One of the study’s authors says “Indigenous communities are grappling with an imminent climate crisis.” And Native groups are both praising and lambasting the Biden Administration’s direction on oil leases on federal lands. Depending on where you stand, new policies are either protecting diminishing land, or denying Native people the jobs necessary to feed their families.
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Taylor Patterson (Bishop Paiute), executive director of the Native Voters Alliance Nevada
Nagruk Harcharek (Iñupiaq), president of the Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat
Dr. Farina King (citizen of the Navajo Nation), Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and associate professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma
Dr. Mengye Chen, research scientist at the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma
James LeClair (Laguna Pueblo), Otoe-Missouria Tribe Emergency Manager
Break 1 Music: The Gift of Life (song) Randy Wood (artist) The Gift of Life (album)
Break 2 Music: Intertribal Song (song) Black Lodge (artist) Enter the Circle – Pow-Wow Songs Recorded Live at Coeur D’Alene (album)
