Communities Impacted by Energy Projects

Manitoba Hydro's Impact on Native Communities

Assembly of First Nations

Fox Lake First Nation

Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)

Manitoba Métis Federation
Manitoba Metis rights and interests in the area of renewable and non-renewable resources. The future of Manitoba’s Metis communities depends upon the continued supply of natural resources, access to traditional lands and waters, and the protection of the environment. These resources have been and will continue to be used by the Metis in both the commercial market and subsistence economies.

Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (Nelson House)

Pimicikamak Cree Nation

• An interview with Chief John Miswagon, of Northern Manitoba's Pimicikamak Cree - by Natural Resources Defense Council, posted July 14, 2004

South Indian Lake - info about the lake

Split Lake Tataskweyak Cree Nation

• Position on Land and Water Resources

• Indigenous Peoples Test the Waters - by Neale MacMillan, 1993

Tataskweyak Cree Nation

York Factory First Nation

The Impact of Energy Projects on Native Communities Across the Country

American Indian Heritage Foundation - A selection of interesting things from their library

Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition, Inc. - organization assisting Tribes in the protection of their rights to the use of Missouri River water

Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
This group is dedicated to protecting and restoring the outstanding natural environment and cultural values of Mount Shasta, one of the sacred mountains of the world. The Sacramento Valley, rich biodiversity, numerous pristine natural sanctuaries, and sacred areas of high significance to Native American cultures near and far. They have fought the upper Sacramento Dam Projects that risk damaging the pristine areas of the South and Middle Forks of the Upper Sacramento River.

National Tribal Environmental Research Institute - developed to promote informed deliberation and comment on federal and other proposed laws, rules, actions, initiatives, and programs

Prairie Island Indian Community - native community fighting nuclear waste (Minnesota)

Shundahai Network - organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with indigenous communities and environmental, peace and human rights movements

Skull Vally Goshutes - native community seeking nuclear waste (Utah)

• "Goshutes Who Have Opposed Nuclear Waste Are Out in Cold" - Salt Lake Tribune

Western Shoshone - impacted by Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository and gold mining.

Winnemem Wintu Hold War Dance Against Shasta Dam - Cultural Survival, September 2004

WISE Uranium Project - tracking uranium mining impacts around the globe

Yucca Mountain - Nuclear Storage at the "Serpent Swimming West" - by Bruce E. Johansen Professor of Communication and Native American Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Miscellaneous Info (recently added at top of list below)

Biodiversity Impacts of Large Dams - prepared for IUCN / UNEP / WCD, by Don E. McAllister, John F. Craig, Nick Davidson, Simon Delany and Mary Seddon, 2001

Lake Winnipeg Regulation Churchill-Nelson River Diversion Project in the Crees of Northern Manitoba, Canada - prepared for the World Commission on Dams, by Luke Hertlein (Protecting Aboriginal Rights, Land and Environment (PARLE)) December 1999

The Failure of Environmental Assessment in Canada - Sierra Club, January 1997

Hydro-Electric Development and the Process of Negotiation in Northern Manitoba, 1960-1977 - by James Waldram, Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 1984

Through the Trees - The Truth About Logging in Canada - by Natural Resources Defense Council, ForestEthics and Greenpeace, September 2003 [also a color map with inset about Pimicikamak and hydro]
A report about the effects of logging and industrial development, including hydropower, in the Boreal Forest of Canada.

Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights - by U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (resolution 2003/16), Approved August 13, 2003 [also a Commentary on the Provisions of this resolution by UofM Human Rights Library]

2000 Census American Indian Population - US Census Bureau

First Nations Development Institute
First Nations Development Institute was founded in 1980 with the mission to assist Native communities in controlling their assets and in building capacity to direct their economic future. Their programs and strategies focus on assisting tribes and Native communities so they control, create, leverage, utilize and retain their assets.

"Terror of Radiation Pervading the Earth" - the Chugoku Shimbun recounts the impact of uranium mining on a Navajo Tribe in New Mexico

Series Launch - The Struggle Against Impunity by Guatemala's Indigenous Communities

Guatemalan Massacre Survivor Demands Reparations - from World Bank/IADB

Dams, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities

The Chixoy Dam - The Maya Achi'Genocide. The Story of Forced Resettlement

The Chixoy Dam and the Massacres at Rio Negro, Agua Fria and Los Encuentros - A Report on Multilateral Financial Institution Accountability, submitted to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The World Bank, Dams and the Quest for Reparations

Dams of the Columbia Basin & Their Effects on the Native Fishery

Evaluate the Effects of Hyporheic Discharge on Egg Pocket Water Temperature in Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning Areas

Environmental Group Gives Federal Salmon Managers Failing Grades

Indigenous Resistance and Opposition to Dam Projects and the World Bank

Renewable Energy in Indian Country - Options for Tribal Governments - by Dean B. Suagee
Like most Americans, renewable energy advocates and businesspeople often know little about American Indian people and their communities. And like most Americans, tribal leaders often know little about the various technologies for using renewable energy resources. Yet renewable energy can meet several needs in Indian Country. These needs include rural electrification, economic development, environmental protection, and expression of a broadly defined but deeply held commitment by many Indian people to balance relationships among the natural world and human beings, including future generations.