Native Hawaiians have turned to the United Nations to help them stop the construction of a gargantuan $2.65 billion telescope on the sacred mountain Mauna Kea. Background: The extremely large telescope, known as the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), has been planned for decades. At present, Mauna Kea — the Earth’s tallest mountain from base to peak — is already home to 21 telescopes and 13 observatories.
In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently. S. 2285, a bill to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.
“These acres are part of the Wounded Knee Massacre site, and because we lost our relatives on these lands, they are sacred to us as Memorial and Sacred Site Land."
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