Western Showdown: Saving the Klamath River
How the tribes of the Klamath stood up for the salmon—and won.
Native rights
Ancient Traditions Keep Desert Waters Flowing
New Mexico's acequias—communal irrigation canals—still function as a tool to preserve and share scarce desert water.
Ecuador Offers a Half-Off Climate Swap
The ITT oil fields, located within Ecuador's Yasunà National Park, have become the center of an experiment that could bring equity and human rights into the climate equation.
Evo Morales: Indigenous Power
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous
president, is forwarding a socially just agenda that promotes
the country's sovereignty and
multiculturalism.
Surviving Hard Times: It’s not for sissies
Hopi and Iroquois prophecies draw on long
cultural memories, offering practical approaches to surviving
hard times.
Bringing Back Desert Springs
The Hopi people of the Black Mesa region know how to farm and thrive in the desert Southwest. But a giant coal company is draining the aquifer that feeds their sacred springs and makes their livelihood possible.
Tom Goldtooth: In the Native Way
For a sundancer and bundle-keeper in the Dakota tradition, the world and the spirit are identical.
Wild Rice Moon
The ancient, wild rice-centered culture of Minnesota's Anishinaabeg people confronts cultivated "wild" rice.
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