Government

A Success Story: The Umatilla River Fisheries Restoration Program
(Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1996).

Activities Related to American Indians and Alaska Natives
(U.S. Geological Survey, 1997).

Columbia Basin Salmon Policy Adopted by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
(Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, March 8, 1995).

Defend Eimish!
(Tshenish Pasteen, NATIVE-L mailing list, March 2. Archive: World History Archive, 1995).

Defense Environmental Network and Information Exchange
This section deals exclusively with Native Americans, Alaskan and Native Hawaiians, and includes a number of documents.

Fall Chinook Spawned at Three Mile Facility
(Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1996).

Grand Council of the Cree (Quebec)
The GCC's web site has an environmenta issues page containing sections on wildlife, hydroelectric power and forest issues.

Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
Formed in response to the United Nations Earth Summit, "to discuss environmental degradation in our communities. We put together a document called Haudenosaunee Environmental Restoration: An Indigenous Strategy for Human Sustainability… sanctioned by the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee." (1997).

Havasupai Environmental Issues Page
Just one information page. (1999).

Innu Nation
The Innu Nation's homepage has a number of articles on mining, hydroelectric development, forestry and other topics.

Inter-Tribal Environmental Council (ITEC)
"The mission of the ITEC is to protect; the health of Native Americans, their natural resources, and their environment as it relates to air, land and water. To accomplish this mission ITEC provides technical support, environmental services, as well as assistance in developing tribal environmental programs."

International Indian Treaty Council
"The IITC is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands."

Low Level Military Flights in Labrador
(Mennonite Central Committee, 1987-96).

Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Country
Waste Management in Indian Country now provides information on managing hazardous waste, construction and demolition waste, industrial solid waste, mining waste, munitions waste, and municipal solid waste. (Environmental Protection Agency).

National Tribal Environmental Council
"NTEC was formed in 1991 as a membership organization dedicated to working with and assisting Tribes in the protection and preservation of the reservation environment." Includes job and internship information.

Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition
NIEC was founded in 1991 in Reno, Nevada, by five Indian tribes of Nevada seeking to develop environmental programs that would protect their people and lands. Since its inception, NIEC has grown to include 24 Indian colonies and reservations.

Nisga'a Homepage
The Nisga'a have concluded a treaty with British Columbia and they are at the point of answering public concerns and criticisms about its implementation. They are the first British Columbian First Nation to conclude a treaty, with others soon to follow.

Northern California Indian Development Council
Mostly an economic development council, but services include fisheries restoration, food and nutrition, and watershed enhancement.

Office of Environmental Services
A short, colorful page with contact information. (Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, 1999).

Pueblo of Jemez Department of Natural Resources
Includes a full set of materials on the Jemez, grave and sacred site protection, repatriation, the protection of cultural and historical areas, conservation, energy research and more.

Pueblo Office of Environmental Protection
The POEP coordinates waste management and environmental activities between the nineteen Pueblos.

Report to Congress on Environmental Impacts to Native American Lands
A report by the Department of Defense on the damage they've caused to Native American lands. Of course, when you've done as much damage as the DoD, you can only write a sentence or two on each particular site. Also, they put the entire thing on one page so expect to wait forever for the full report.

Right to Land and Natural Resources
(Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec, Submission to the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Archive: Fourth World Documentation Project, 1985).

Salmon Migration and the Dams on the Mainstem Columbia and Snake Rivers
(Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1996).

Taos Pueblo Environmental Office
The Pueblo's environmental office. Sometimes a site is just what it looks like!

Tribal Environmental and Natural Resource Assistance Handbook
This is a critical reference document. It provides information on federal sources of both technical and financial assistance available to Tribes for environmental management. (PDF format. Domestic Policy Council Working Group on American Indians and Alaska Natives, Environmental Protection Agency, American Indian Environmental Office. 142 pp, 1999).

U.S./Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty Implementation
(PDF format. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, 4 pp).

Water Conflict Resolved Cooperatively: The Umatilla Basin Project
(Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1996).

Water Resource Management Department
Full page of info with contact information. (Seminole Tribe of Florida, 1999).

Who owns Voisey's Bay?
(David Playfair, The People's Voice, March. Archive: World History Archive, 1995).