7-Indigenous Power: Indigenous Rights Go Global

Related Stories from 10 years of YES!

Spring 1999 Issue

Menominee Forest Stewardship
by Jerry Reynolds
Thousands of visitors flock to the Menominee tribal reservation every year to look at a working forest that honors wildlife and biodiversity, while providing timber and jobs for the local economy.

Spring 2000 Issue

Into Our Hands
by Katsi Cook
New stories are often rooted in old stories that were swept aside by more powerful cultures. Now, some indigenous groups are reclaiming their stories and traditions, integrating modern science on their own terms

Summer 2000 Issue

Going Forward Full Circle
by Connie Kim
Throughout the inland saltwater cultures of the Pacific Northwest, canoe culture nearly disappeared. The Full Circle Canoe Project brings  back an entry way into other parts of the Suquamish culture  such as traditional clothing, songs, language, regalia, and food.

In the Native Way
by Tom B. K. Goldtooth
Spirituality plays a very important role in the work of native people. The Native people are the land and the land is the native people.

Winter 2003 Issue

The Talking Circle
by Manitonquat
The way of the circle has a definite power for Native Americans incarcerated in a white man's prison. Through the circle they became human beings again, learning to trust and love, to seek their gifts and make their give-aways.

Spring 2003 Issue

Keeping the Balance
by Lisa Garrigues
Maquehue hospital integrates the traditional medical knowledge of the indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile with modern medicine.

Summer 2003 Issue

Tribes Find Power in Wind
by Winona LaDuke
The wind power potential on just the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations in the Northern Plains alone could meet the Kyoto targets for all of North America

Winter 2004 Issue

Bringing Back Desert Springs
by Gary Nabhan
Water is sacred, especially in Arizona's Painted Desert, where the Hopi Nation farmers rely on traditions to give their crops an edge in the sandy soil.

Spring 2004 Issue

The Gifts from the Four Direction
by Ilarion Merculieff
If we stay the course in healing separation within and without, it is only a question of time until the sacred Gifts from the Four Directions––the four sacred colors––come together for the purpose of creating a new world.

Winter 2005 Issue

The Warriors Who Turned to Peace
by John Mohawk
Peacemaking and progressive pragmatism. Terrorism has been with us forever what we need now is peacemaking.

Going Home
by Sarah van Gelder
Activists help push the state of Washington to return land once the home of Chief Seattle and the center of the Suquamish nation.

Winter 2006 Issue

I Stand with You Against the Disorder
by Jeanette Armstrong
How the Okanagan language offers a window into a culture based in connectedness to family, community and place.