This November, Try Something New: Decolonize Your Mind
I tend to lie low during Native American History Month and dodge the Moon of Explaining Indians to White People. But not this year.
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New Documentary Remembers Standing Rock in Beauty and Catastrophe
鈥淭he Standing Rock I knew was not a mystical place with a uniform perspective. It was a complex place鈥攁n experiment in love, hope, courage, and solidarity.鈥�
Why Native American Women Are Going After Europe鈥檚 Banks to Divest From Big Oil
鈥淚ndigenous women ... often are the ones to call out injustice when they see it immediately. We saw that at Standing Rock.鈥�
Hospital Beats Federal Bureaucracy to Offer Local Traditional Foods
A unique program in the Arctic tundra finds a way around federal regulation to put traditional foods on the hospital menu.
Why One Native Family Is Donating Their Fracking Proceeds to Benefit Indian Country
A new fund聽will support deeply researched investigative journalism that reports on critical issues in Indian Country.
Call for Submissions: Decolonize This
Send us your ideas by October 30.
The Shasta Dam Killed Off This Tribe鈥檚 Salmon鈥擮r So They Thought
The Winnemem Wintu learned that descendants of their salmon are thriving in a New Zealand river. The tribe has been fighting to return them home.
The Pipeline Protest Before Standing Rock
Last year鈥檚 water protectors garnered worldwide attention, but several pipeline fights鈥攕uch as the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline victory鈥攇ot little public notice.
In Photos: Water Protectors Return to Standing Rock鈥擳his Time for Healing
The camps are gone now, but the awakening to protect the water, land, and tribal sovereignty continues.
For a Tribe With a Tradition of Sharing, Food Sovereignty Is Complicated Economics
South Dakota鈥檚 Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribal members would rather share their food than sell it. But that gets in the way of building a local cash economy.
Her Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians.聽Now She鈥檚 Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
How Alaska Tribes Solved Their Dental Health Crisis
Dental health therapy takes half the time it takes to train a dentist. And it does what good medicine should: improve public health.
Tribes Were the First Climate Refugees鈥攁nd the First to Build Resilience Plans
The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it鈥檚 a template for all of Indian Country.
鈥淭his Is Our Land鈥�: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona鈥檚 justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
Locals and Tribes March Together to Oppose Construction of Natural Gas Plant
The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.
Climate Change Will Force Native Americans to Adapt Religious Rituals Yet Again
Global climate change affects everyone. But for many indigenous peoples, natural resources are closely linked to religious beliefs and practices.
Why Coastal Tribes Are Growing Clam Gardens That Look Like Asian Rice Fields
All along the Pacific Northwest, tribes have been forced to close productive shellfish farming areas due to pollution. But they鈥檝e got a plan.
Banks Have Cut Funding for Fossil Fuels Projects 22 Percent
But activist groups say that鈥檚 not enough: There鈥檚 no resting, even after divestment victories.
Judge鈥檚 Ruling on Standing Rock a Second Chance for Justice
The federal court decision could start a new chapter in the DAPL saga, beginning with dropping prosecution of water protectors.
How Photography Shapes Our View of Native Americans
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline.
Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
Forced assimilation destroyed most nations鈥� diets, but now Native youth are learning to integrate local foods back into their daily lives.
The Unlikely Uprising of Progressive Politics in Alaska
As the Arctic heats up and the oil economy tanks, progressives find their voice in a conservative state.
For Native Mothers, a Way to Give Birth That Overcomes Trauma
A birthing center opening next year in New Mexico will provide a safe place for women to heal through their traditions.
Monet Wins Tobenkin Award for Standing Rock Coverage
鈥淎t their heart, her stories were about the religious freedom, sovereignty, and human rights sought by Indigenous people everywhere.鈥�
Wildfires Are Essential: The Forest Service Embraces a Tribal Tradition
The Karuk were once denied the right to practice an ancient tradition. Now scientific and resource management circles are seeing the merits of controlled burning.
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