Native Americans – Page 51

Just outside of Vegas, coal plant gambles with lives

March 21, 2013 By Blake Skylar

For years, the NV Energy-owned Reid Gardner coal plant just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada has been poisoning the Moapa tribe of Paiute Native Americans.

Rare disease suddenly arises on Navajo Reservation

March 6, 2013 By Albert Bender

A rare disorder, characterized by some authorities as genetic, has abruptly surfaced on the sprawling Navajo Reservation in the Southwest.

Idle No More: Native movement sweeps Canada and U.S.

January 25, 2013 By Albert Bender

Native communities from coast to coast in the U.S. have embraced this upheaval.

Native American joblessness is slow genocide

July 24, 2012 By Albert Bender

Small wonder that U.S. Native peoples are beset with a blistering, hideous panoply of social and health ills hardly seen elsewhere in this world. Unemployment kills!

Native Americans left out of economic recovery, as always

June 11, 2012 By Albert Bender

For urban Native Americans, the jobless rate averages around 48 percent. In general, Indian Country is in a permanent depression even when the national economy is on the upswing.