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Barriers To Tribal Nations’ Involvement In Water Governance Is High

A poster mapping the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
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North Carolina has the largest state-recognized Native American population east of the Mississippi River. But until recently, state-recognized Native nations have had little input on issues of environmental governance. 

The planning of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline changed that, as state-recognized Tribal nations sought to have input in the planning and permitting of infrastructure that would have been disruptive to land and waters in Tribal territories. A new study, co-authored by Ryan Emanuel, associate professor in the department of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University and enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, outlines the barriers indigenous peoples faced in seeking inclusion in the pipeline planning process. Emanuel joins host Frank Stasio to talk about the study and its results.

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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