First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
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I Inherited My Grandfather’s Trauma—and His Healing Culture
Returning to culture is a duty my grandfather believed Native elders had to their communities. He passed this on to me, along with his trauma.
Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This
A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don’t know.
Meet the Indigenous Women Keeping Native Businesses Close to Home
Entrepreneurs have limited access to capital and business education on the reservation. A Navajo incubator wants to change that.
Water Protectors Take Action to Keep Pipeline Out of Black and Indigenous Communities
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
How Native American Children Benefit From Trauma-Informed Schools
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” rather than “Why are you acting this way?”
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How to Reclaim the Narrative—and Power—in Post-Truth America
Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.
Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
A Mohawk Midwife’s Birth Stories
“The stories of how we’re born are so important and give so much guidance to a child’s life.”
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation’s cultural identity.
Resisting the Power Structures That Keep Colonialism Alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past.
Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change
Preparing food—and letting others in our communities cook for us—is how we become good citizens who engage with the communities around us.
Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents
As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the U.S.’s past with the cruel practice.
To Native Culture, the Salmon Decision Means More Than a Treaty Rights Win
How indigenous food is tied to important sacred stories.
Farming as Resistance
Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees.
Poem: A Make-Believe Nation
How can living in paradise be so hard?
The Lost Indigenous Housing Designs
Developed over thousands of years, traditional architecture can also build climate resiliency.
Posting Your Hike on Instagram? Now You Can Tag Your Location’s Indigenous Name
This Native climber created indigenous geotags for more than 40 mountains.
Indigenous Women Built These Tiny Houses to Block a Pipeline—and Reclaim Nomadic Traditions
The houses are affordable and energy-efficient, and are bringing back elements of the Secwepemc’s hunter-gatherer culture.
How a University and a Tribe Are Teaming Up to Revive a Lost Language
At Miami University in Ohio, the Myaamia Center is revitalizing culture and building racial equity. The project was decades in the making.
Native and European—How Do I Honor All Parts of Myself?
Learning about my roots has helped me understand intergenerational trauma and cultural resilience related to my genetics.
Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education
More than a century ago, the last fluent speakers of Wôpanâak passed away. Now this school is working to revive the language.
How Indigenous Knowledge Is Transforming the March for Science
“Indigenous peoples were always scientists. Their lives depended on it."
To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn’t one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization
I want to experience the solidarity of allied actions that refuse fantastical narratives of commonality and hope.
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