Water is basic to life wherever you live. But in urban and suburban areas, clean and (sometimes) plentiful water is taken for granted. On far-rural reservations and other tribal lands, tribes rely on rivers, not only for drinking and crop water, but also for the fish and wildlife that rivers support.
Update: Good News for Indian Tribes in Maine. In December, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule that applies federal Water Quality Standards to waters in Maine, including those within Indian Country. The standards specifically apply human health criteria to waters used for the exercise of sustenance fishing under the 1982 Maine Implementing Act, and six additional standards for waters in Indian lands in Maine.
Hundreds of Friends came together from across the country for worship, listening, advocacy, and community, as we confronted what it means to love all of our neighbors now.
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which the United Nations adopted in 2007, addresses both individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples and their relationship to land and natural resources.
The protests and police violence at Standing Rock replay a centuries-old dynamic. The U.S. government is once again failing to protect the rights of Native Americans.
The United States has waged war in Afghanistan for more than a decade, at a cost of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, with little progress toward peace. The Strategic Partnership Agreement that the U.S. and Afghanistan signed in May is unlikely to lead to positive outcomes.
Military action against ISIS militants will not help build a world free of war and the threat of war. Yet that is the direction that President Trump is going.
The report on U.S. leadership on preventing mass atrocities details what should be done to strengthen existing atrocity prevention initiatives, develop new measures, and ensure that the issue is institutionalized within the national security bureaucracy. Preventing atrocities saves lives and advances U.S. national security.
Ed Snyder posits that anger, fear, success, and guilt offer only short bursts of energy for peace and justice — not the spiritual resources needed for a lifetime of action and advocacy.
We partnered with Friends Journal for the second season of QuakerSpeak. Here’s what happened.
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