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Excerpted from Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Candis Watts Smith and Tehama Lopez Bunyasi

Author and end-of-life educator Sallie Tisdale gets real about death and dying.

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.

It’s never too soon to act.

The city amended a decades-old ordinance to recognize tribal sovereignty and create more services for Native people living in urban centers.

Be My Eyes, ArtLifting, and Crisis Text Line remove barriers for the visually impaired, the unhoused, and people in need of counseling.

Xwi7xwa library in British Columbia is working to decolonize the way libraries organize information.

The Juicebox app connects people with sex coaches to get their questions answered—anonymously.

Tucson’s alternative approach to growth preserves its older building stock and spurs a downtown renaissance.

These spirited sisters act to change the world in specific ways.

Activists among tribes want to rally the Native vote. Because when they show up to the polls, they’ve shown significant political power.

Some schools are looking to helping students meet much more basic needs.

A Fort Worth, Texas, program sees steady employment as an important step in helping guests rebuild their lives.

Entrepreneurs have limited access to capital and business education on the reservation. A Navajo incubator wants to change that.