Nez Perce Tribe backs Idaho Rep. Simpson s Snake River dam removal plan
The tribe added that Washington s U.S. Senators and the Washington governor haven t provided any solutions, other than standing against the plan.
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FILE - In this April 11, 2018 file photo, water moves through a spillway of the Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River near Almota, Wash. Farmers, environmentalists, tribal leaders and public utility officials are eagerly awaiting a federal report that could decide the fate of four hydroelectric dams on the Snake River. Author: KTVB Staff Updated: 12:51 PM MDT May 17, 2021
The Republican s $33.5 billion plan would breach the four dams over the course of a decade, which would open up the waterway for migrating salmon.
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A breeding pair foraging for nesting materials. The female is on the top right with nesting materials. Females can be distinguished from males by their white eyes. Males have dark eyes. These are the smallest songbirds in North America at 11 cm (4.3 in) in length.
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“I never allow a lack of knowledge on a particular subject matter to hold me back from doing something,” said James Parker Shield, Little Shell Chippewa, when talking about the National Native American Hall of Fame. “About ten years ago I thought: there is a Hall of Fame for just about everything else, why not Indians?” asked Parker Shield. “Then, I didn’t know much about museums and such, but I saw the need.” Since then, with the help and support of many tribal leaders stretching from Florida to Alaska and resolutions of support provided by the National Indian Education Association, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (tribal colleges) and others, that dream was realized in 2018 when the National Native Hall of Fame (NNAHF), a 501(c)3 organization inducted its first honorees.
Billy Frank Jr., Native American activist, demonstrated the nation’s highest values.
Timothy Egan | The New York Times Amanda Koster for The New York Times
| May 5, 2021, 2:44 a.m.
The United States is in a muddle over how to tell our history, stuck between an aggressive revisionism that would leave few commemorative statues standing, and a stubborn clinging to all the founding myths, no matter how odious or inaccurate.
It’s shameful that a mob fringe has even come for Abraham Lincoln. His statue was torn down by extremists in Portland, Oregon, last fall.
But there’s some good news on this front: Washington state has chosen to immortalize Billy Frank Jr., a Native American truth-teller, genuine hero and role model, who died in 2014, at the U.S. Capitol in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The United States is in a muddle over how to tell our history, stuck between an aggressive revisionism that would leave few commemorative statues standing, and a stubborn clinging to all the founding myths, no matter how odious or inaccurate.
Itâs shameful that a mob fringe has even come for Abraham Lincoln. His statue was torn down by extremists in Portland, Oregon, last fall.
But thereâs some good news on this front: Washington state has chosen to immortalize Billy Frank Jr., a Native American truth-teller, genuine hero and role model, who died in 2014, at the U.S. Capitol in the National Statuary Hall Collection.