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The Data Center Debate Taking Over Native American Tribes

The Data Center Debate Taking Over Native American Tribes

Whether to support data center development is a defining issue in this campaign season, and it is a debate that has taken over many Native American...

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Time

Petala Ironcloud

Big Tech Is Trampling Native Treaty Rights to Build Data Centers

Big Tech Is Trampling Native Treaty Rights to Build Data Centers

Tribal consultation isn’t optional, but the corporations building data centers in New Mexico are acting like it is.

19.09.2026 10

Truthout

Petala Ironcloud

Gavin Newsom’s Data Center Plans May Cost Him the Native Vote

For Native people in the Golden State, it’s going to be an autumn of mixed messages from the governor’s mansion. This month, Gavin Newsom will...

18.09.2026 8

New Republic

Petala Ironcloud

As Data Centers Sidestep Tribal Consultations, Tribal Nations Are Fighting Back

A recent New York moratorium gives the appearance of accountability without the structural change that would require it.

22.07.2026 10

Truthout

Petala Ironcloud

Many Call Authoritarianism “Un-American.” 250 Years of History Show Otherwise.

A group of Indigenous scholars are countering erasures in US history in Rebecca Nagle’s new “First America” podcast.

18.07.2026 10

Truthout

Petala Ironcloud

An LGBTQ Rights World Cup Stunt Revealed the Cracks in SF’s Queer Movement

Scott Wiener and Dr. Nasser Mohamed staged a World Cup LGBTQ rights moment. But who was it for?

11.07.2026 10

Truthout

Petala Ironcloud

UC Is Finalizing Its Land-Use Rules Without Involving Directly Impacted Tribes

Some Native leaders say the omission is not an oversight -- it is a structural problem baked into the framework itself.

18.05.2026 20

Truthout

Petala Ironcloud

The Tribal Organizations That Won’t Quit ICE

In December 2025, the Prairie Band of Potawatomi withdrew from a $30 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract and fired the executives who...

28.04.2026 20

New Republic

Petala Ironcloud

Anna Tsouhlarakis and Native Visibility at the Whitney Biennial

Her spiked horse lingers in memory, a testament to how one artist can both anchor and animate a collective Indigenous presence.

10.03.2026 30

Observer

Petala Ironcloud

The Hypocrisy of Art Basel Qatar

Art Basel Qatar, which launched in Doha earlier this month, is not simply an art fair—it’s a declaration of geopolitical intent. For a...

19.02.2026 60

Foreign Policy

Petala Ironcloud

In Jeffrey Gibson’s “An Indigenous Present,” Native Art Beyond Representationalism

The show’s cross-generational pairings surface the institutional separations that kept Native artists from forming the kinds of networks modernism...

12.01.2026 20

Observer

Petala Ironcloud

How This Brand Stopped Appropriation of Native American Designs by Giving Artists Control

30.09.2025 30

Inc.com

Petala Ironcloud