After being hit hard at the beginning of the pandemic, the Arizona-based tribe has slowed the spread of the disease and helped curb death rates.
Native Leadership
Indigenous activists see Deb Haaland’s leadership as an opportunity to re-imagine justice and safety in the U.S.
Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
For Indigenous people threatened by climate change, the choice is not an easy one: Move away from a place to which families have been tied for centuries, or stay and remain at risk.
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
“Tradition and culture are really at the core of who we are… It’s how we heal.”
“How To Blow Up a Pipeline” is not in fact a manual, but rather a treatise inviting the climate movement to widespread sabotage and property destruction, and it is surprisingly compelling.
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
A post-petroleum transition plan.
An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness.
A report from occupied Palisade, where Water Protectors confront a dying, but still deadly, energy behemoth.
A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“No way would Black or Brown people be treated that way had they attacked a symbol of our democracy.”
A brother-and-sister writing team bring Native culture and love of family to an environmental story for children.
A new children’s book centers Native culture and our relationship with Earth.
Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic.
With Deb Haaland at the helm, the department may finally start keeping its promises to Native Americans.
Their response shows that Indigenous nations and communities know what they need, and that they are the directors of their own protective measures.
A new film follows food activists seeking to restore salmon, buffalo, and the nourishing legacy of Native cultures.
A Native poet takes us back to a moment of liberal outrage after the last election.
We can begin by embracing mythologies aimed at exalting environmental sustainability and social equality.
Can Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation efforts help the U.S. with its own reckoning?
American conservationists have said and done terribly racist things over the years. Now is the opportunity to center justice.
Quannah Chasinghorse is continuing the legacy of Gwich’in women working to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
College students are learning that caring about the environment should be part of learning about it.
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