Things just got a lot more interesting for the UMass women’s basketball team. Guard Shavonne Smith, who was one of a very select group of players who saw semi-regular time on the court behind the team’s regulars, is no longer with the program, head.
The Shinnecock Indian Nation is fighting to save what’s left of its land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and eat away the shoreline in Long Island, New York. European settlers, and later the U.S. government, for centuries have forcefully relocated Indigenous tribes onto marginal lands more vulnerable to climate hazards. “This is the only place we have to remain. This is our homeland,” said Shavonne Smith, director of the tribe’s environmental department.
The Shinnecock tribe is fighting to save what’s left of its land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and erode the shoreline in Long Island, New.
The Shinnecock tribe is fighting to save what’s left of its land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and erode the shoreline in Long Island, New.
The Shinnecock tribe is fighting to save what’s left of its land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and erode the shoreline in Long Island, New.