Gwich’in Voices Speak Out Against Oil Drilling in Alaska
“We have lived and thrived in the Arctic for thousands of years. We have listened and learned from our elders, and we know we must stand united to protect future generations.”
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We’re at a Tipping Point—Toward Healing the Climate
If we focus on the best possible outcomes, journalist Judith D. Schwartz argues together we can restore ecosystems.
Fighting for Free-Range Reindeer in Norway’s Far North
Traditional reindeer herding is a cornerstone of Sámi culture in the European Arctic highlands. It’s also part of a finely balanced ecology that can help cool the planet. But Norway’s government wants mineral mines instead of roaming reindeer.
This Native Tribe’s Response to COVID-19 Is Working—and Addressing Another Community Problem
The Eastern Band of Cherokees is applying lessons from the pandemic to help them fight addiction in their community.
Police Violence Meets Spiritual Resistance in the Struggle Over DAPL
An appeals court overruled the shutdown of DAPL, pending a full environmental review. The fight against a pipeline that provoked unprecedented resistance continues.
Indian Country Treaties Are Valid—and Matter, Says Supreme Court Ruling
“Promises were made,” Justice Gorsuch said in upholding Creek Nation jurisdiction over half of Oklahoma.
Indigenous Artists Use Technology to Tell Stories About Their Ancestral Lands
These five art projects explore the impacts of climate change using VR and other mediums.
What’s in a Social Justice Diet?
You can make whatever diet you’re currently eating even healthier.
The Shared History of Wild Horses and Indigenous People
Horse sanctuaries along the Native American Horse Trail are working to save America’s last Indigenous horses and rewrite official histories that claim they don’t exist.
What to Watch: Resilience and Restoration in the Louisiana Delta
A new docu-series highlights the efforts of five locals who may be losing ground but are not losing hope.
Community Care: An Indigenous Response to Coronavirus
Our decolonial work involves supporting the collective over our own ego and honoring the interdependence of all beings.
The Search for Planet-Friendly Protein
We can take a cue from cultures that eat further down the food chain.
Environmental Activists of Color
Young Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color at the center of environmental justice movements are often overlooked. This was evident in 2019 during Swedish teen climate activist Greta
Strength From Grief: How Aboriginal People Experience the Bushfire Crisis
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees, and destroying ancestral and totemic plants
To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive.
Restoring Harmony in Haida Gwaii
Dinners in Roberta Olson’s restaurant begin with a taste of k’aaw. The dried herring roe on kelp is a traditional food for the Haida people, an Indigenous nation that has called
Preparing Native Youth to Steward Ancestral Lands
It had been more than a 100 years since the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) people launched a carved canoe in eastern Oregon’s Wallowa Lake. And now in this place, beloved by
Resisting GMOs and Preserving Indigenous Culture in Rural Mexico
Thanks to a union of land cooperatives, people in Puebla have food sovereignty and education in Nahuatl instead of mega-projects and a Walmart.
For Indigenous Peoples Day, Tribes Return to Alcatraz 50 Years Later
A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago.
Making National Parks Accessible to Native People Again
A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?
Why Aren’t Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
Resource extraction takes a toll on more than just the economy and the environment.
My Indigenous Culture Is an Act of Resistance
Two generations saw our Inuit and Dine homelands in Northern Canada nearly destroyed. Now my way of life is one of cultural repair.
Rent Is Recognition and Restitution for Seattle’s Native Inhabitants
A grassroots movement encourages non-Native city dwellers to pay monthly reparations to the Duwamish, a Native American tribe that’s petitioned for federal recognition for the last 40 years.
Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Have Long United Against Deforestation
The fires that spread swiftly across the Amazon in recent weeks drew international attention to a problem Indigenous Brazilians have been facing for years.
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