Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition

Drought Issues

National Drought Mitigation Center
US Drought Monitor
Drought Section of SD State Cooperative Extension

Energy Efficiency

WAPA Energy Services Program
DOE Bldg Technology, State, Comm. Programs
DOE Office of Industrial Technologies
DOE Office of Transportation Technologies
DOE Office of Utility Technologies
Center for Building Science News
Green Power Network
Amer. Council for Energy Efficient Economy

National Wind Coordinating Committee - Wind Energy
American Public Power Association
National Rural Electric Cooperative Assoc.
Electric Power Research Institute
Gridwise Power Guide (all vendor, mfgs, etc.)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Association of Energy Engineers
E Source
Rocky Mountain Institute

Federal Agencies

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division News Release-July 8, 2003: Brig. Gen. Grisoli to head Corps' Northwestern Division
June 23, 2003: EPA Announces Unprecedented First "Draft Report on the Environment", a national picture of environmental quality and human health in the United States
EPA Environmental News-May 23, 2003: EPA study shows air quality violations in North Dakota and Montana protected areas
EPA Newsroom-May 16, 2003: Fort Belknap Indian Community One of Seven Communities Funded for New EPA Brownfields Job Training Grants
ACOE News Release on April 22, 2003: The Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service come to agreement on water management plan for the Missouri River reservoirs for late spring and summer 2003. News release is in Word format.
Letter from US Fish and Wildlife Service requesting input on Missouri River biological issues as the Army Corps of Engineers has re-initiated Section 7 consultation with the Fish and Wildlife Service re: effects of Missouri River Mainstem Reservoir system operations during the period of May 1 - August 15, 2003--comments requested by April 11, 2003.
Neal McCaleb sworn in as Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs
Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to designate critical habitat for the Great Plains breeding population of piping plover
Army Corps of Engineers' Master Manual Schedule--released June 1, 2001
Findings from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on endangered status of sicklefin and sturgeon chub--April 18, 2001
Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2003
Supreme Court upholds EPA position on smog, particulate rules--February 27, 2001
Federal Government Information Search
Catalog of Domestic Federal Assistance
Federal Register On-line
Current Legislation in Congressional Record
White House
Army Corps of Engineers
- Omaha District Cultural Resources Program website
- March 2003 News Release from Army Corps of Engineers' Northwestern Division on Missouri River flows
- February 2003 News Release from Army Corps of Engineers' Northwestern Division on Missouri River flows
- Army Corps of Engineers' fish and wildlife habitat restoration website: www.nwd.usace.army.mil
- Army Environmental Center Western Region's Native American directory
- Army Corps of Engineers' Master Manual EIS
- Notes from Becky Otto, Omaha District Army Corps of Engineers regarding on-going work in the cultural resources program
- Letter of commitment from Colonel Michael S. Meuleners, Army Corps of Engineers, to improve government-to-government relationships with Tribes and response letter regarding comments on draft American Indian and Alaska Native Policy from Rachael A. Rowland, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Intergovernmental Affairs
- Memorandum on Indian Sovereignty and Government-to-Government Relations with Indian Tribes and Tribal Policy Principles from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers available here
- News Release: Army Corps releases Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Missouri River Master Water Control Manual Review and Update--August 31, 2001
Bureau of Reclamation
- Workshop minutes from April 28 and 29, 1998 Bureau of Reclamation Area Managers' Workshop #15 - Native American Issues
Environmental Protection Agency
- Surf your watershed
- H.R. 3866 Water Resources Development Act of 1998 available here in .pdf format. Adobe Acrobat reader needed.
U.S. Geological Survey
- Native American Activities
- Webpage on Native American Activities
Indian Health Service
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Department of Interior
- DOI News Release on Jan. 6, 2003: Interior Secretary Gale Norton names Aurene M. Martin Acting Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Intertribal Organizations (Miscellaneous)

Council Lodge Institute--provides quality culturally relevant training and consultation services that aids in the enhancement of programs provided for people and children.
National Tribal Environmental Research Institute--website created by NCAI to assist Tribes to understand environmental laws impacting them
Article from The Billings Gazette, June 26, 1999: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt launches BIA records system in Billings
Intertribal Bison Cooperative
Western Governors' Association
Northwest Area Foundation: Community Ventures, Community Connections, and Community Horizons Programs
Code Talk--federal interagency Native American websites

Native American Culture

NAPE Aboriginal Links - An Indigenous Peoples Web Directory
Tahtonka--Native American Arts, Humanities and Culture
Keihan's Web--Tuscarora and Six Nations websites

Energy Services

Federal Register Notice of Proposed Allocation for Post-2004 Resource Pool-Loveland Area Projects--dated May 11, 2001
General Utilities Western Area Power Administration
Washington State University Energy Program

National Energy Policy-Report of the National Energy Policy Development Workgroup (.pdf file)--released May 17, 2001

Environment

EPA Water Quality Standards
Testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing on July 10, 2002, regarding MRBA recommendations to Missouri River operations presented by Richard Opper, MRBA Executive Director--in Word format
Missouri River tops American Rivers' list of the Nation's most endangered rivers--press release on April 11, 2001
Attack on Endangered Species Act likely on Missouri River--press release on May 16, 2001
Enlibra, an evolving new doctrine for environmental management
Water Resource Research Center Home Page
Indigenous Environmental Network
Spirits of the Land Foundation
National Environmental Coalition of Nat. Am.