WASHINGTON The Biden administration will give money to five Native American tribes to help them relocate away from rivers and coastlines, potentially creating a model for other communities around the country as the effects of climate change get worse.
The Interior Department has selected the winners of a new competition to relocate communities vulnerable to climate change. It could become a model for the rest of the country.
Representatives from the U.S. Departments of Interior and Commerce, along with NOAA, will meet with tribal leaders at ONC on Oct. 5 to hear about how they can help subsistence users in an era of historically low salmon runs.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Census Area posted a 75% turnout rate in 2020, topping those of all county or county equivalents where Indigenous residents comprise at least half of the voting-age population.