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5They Persisted

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Most Recent in Environment:

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Most Recent in Border:

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4A Poor Defense

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2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

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4Heads in the Mud

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6Women’s Work

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Tag Archives: native americans

Eli Jackson Cemetery

Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall

Environmentalists, veterans of the Standing Rock protests and Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal members are vowing to stare down the president's bulldozers.

Thu, Jan 31, 2019 |

The 154-year-old Eli Jackson Cemetery sits about a mile from the Rio Grande, south of the Hidalgo County town of San Juan. Encompassing about a quarter-acre, it...Read More

June 2016 Postcards, Eagle Pass, coal mine protest, Dos Republicas

by Hannah McBride

In the Name of Our Ancestors

Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm.

Mon, Jun 6, 2016 |

Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm near Eagle Pass, saying the state is putting profits before native peoples....Read More

Representatives from the Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Pacuache Band Coahuiltecan Nation, Carrizo-Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and both the American Indian Movements of Central Texas and Southern California participated in the march against the Dos Republicas low-grade coal mine.

by Katerina Barton

Native Groups Open New Front Against Border Coal Mine

Tribal leaders say binational coal companies are mining on sacred ancestral lands.

Wed, Apr 20, 2016 |

Dos Republicas opponents hope bringing attention to the mine's effects on local tribes could open a new front in the fight against the low-grade coal mine....Read More

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