Valerie Small, PhD

SDSU USDA/NIFA Program Evaluator. Living on the traditional lands of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute. PhD Agricultural Biology. Apsáalooke

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else. Reindeer are starving. Sámi culture is at risk. For decades, Indigenous nations have demanded a real seat at the UN, not NGO status. Their land, culture, and climate are at stake.
https://t.co/BykzGPpcGT

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The Pascua Yaqui Tribe invested $1.5M and leveraged LIHTC to build a $27.3M elder housing complex. Around 60% of the homes the tribe has built for citizens came through this model.When tribes lead, communities thrive. https://t.co/BK4feZHBfd

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Seven Chugach tribes just formed a Tribal Conservation District with USDA — opening the door to funding for mariculture, salmon habitat, community gardens, and high tunnels. https://t.co/FzhSZdBfip

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The Ponca Nation just became the first Tribe in the U.S. to endorse the Fossil Fuel Treaty—a global agreement for an equitable phaseout of oil, gas & coal. 37 Indigenous nations & 18 countries have now joined.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

“Native people are written out of the American story. Without us, you don’t know what happened.” 🎙️To get the full story, listen to First America–the true story of how the United States came to be. And how our current political moment is 250 years in the making.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

I sat down with Slate's What Next to talk about why reckoning with our full history is the only way forward—and what happens when we finally center Native truth in the story of America. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
https://t.co/qXiaIDLTzr

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The Winnebago Tribe is a step closer to bringing home 2 children who died at Carlisle Indian School. A fed court ruled that the U.S. Army needs to return the two boys’ remains. The Tribe plans to bury the boys according to Winnebago customs. https://t.co/fTtLphEO8b

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The UN adopted a declaration on the rights of Indigenous people almost 20 years ago. Today, Indigenous people are still pushing the member countries to live up to their promises. https://t.co/o9RnEY7orx

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Another #landback win! The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation received 22.5 acres of land back in a culturally significant area. A few years ago, the tribe got 9k acres back & has been using their new land base to restore habitat. https://t.co/2HETlI3IlT

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Navajo Highways, a children’s series that highlights Navajo culture through puppetry, is nominated for two Emmy awards! https://t.co/MiLYtSNjFz

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This Earth Day is a special one—it also falls during @nature_org's 75th anniversary.

So tomorrow, let’s make it a day for all generations: a chance to connect with the natural world around us, and with each other. Because the future of our shared home isn’t something that just happens to us—it’s something we shape, together.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

I am so excited to announce the First America Indigenous Futures Writing Workshop Series as part of a project I’ve been working on for the past year. Please share with any Indigenous youth that you know! Apply here:
https://t.co/hhGAkLTQpk

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The federal govt has a treaty obligation 2 Native nations. The federal services we get are not a hand out, but a legally binding duty. A new Government Accountability Office report found that due to staffing cuts those treaty obligations r not being met. https://t.co/vHIuvMIy3L

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe is reclaiming their sovereignty through buffalo restoration, and they’re using solar energy to expand the operation. https://t.co/e8SfiaTTbr

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

Ben Nighthorse Campbell's legacy will forever be remembered. His leadership paved the way to include Indigenous voices. I'm sending his family, loved ones, and community my most heartfelt condolences.

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Of the thousands of characters on TV between 1987 and 2007, TWO were Native American. One of those was Elaine Miles’s character on Northern Exposure. Last week, the actress was detained by ICE after they called her tribal ID “fake.”

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. https://t.co/s9e1NEUMDK.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

After two weeks of meetings and overnight negotiations down to the wire, #COP30 is concluding with countries agreeing to *begin discussions* on fossil fuel phase out. The COP president says "the issue of stronger language on moving away from fossil fuels can be raised again in six months time at an interim COP meeting." And as the article emphasizes, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."

When unanimous decisions are required, as few as one or two countries (and in this case, a block of them but clearly still a minority) can veto, even though the science is clear: we must phase out fossil fuels not for the sake of the planet, but to ensure a livable future for us all... including the inhabitants of the countries who prevented this phrase from being included in the final agreement.

It is also worth noting that fossil fuel industry-supported attendees made up the second largest delegation to the climate conference after that of the host country, Brazil.

As Mohamed Adow of @powershiftafri said: “With an increasingly fractured geopolitical backdrop, Cop30 gave us some baby steps in the right direction, but considering the scale of the climate crisis, it has failed to rise to the occasion."

“More than 80 countries supported a transition away from fossil fuels, but were blocked by countries that refused to support this necessary step. More than 90 countries supported improved protection of forests. That too did not make it into the final agreement. Unfortunately, the text failed to deliver the scale of change needed.” Carolina Pasquali of Greenpeace Brazil added.

Read more:

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[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

The longer the government is shut down, the more New Mexicans suffer. Tribes being forced to reallocate fewer funds. For the sake of our families, I urge Republicans to stop playing games with our healthcare and reopen the government.

https://t.co/MvDBFvR0IE

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

A typhoon devastated Alaska Native communities in the Yup'ik Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, including the villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk. Here are some places to donate:
Funds: Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund (Alaska Community Foundation) https://t.co/bK3sEdwIsB