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.
Indigenous lands
With income from sequestering carbon in its forests, the tribe has supported youth programming, housing, road improvement, and businesses development.
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.
A new children’s book centers Native culture and our relationship with Earth.
With Deb Haaland at the helm, the department may finally start keeping its promises to Native Americans.
A new film follows food activists seeking to restore salmon, buffalo, and the nourishing legacy of Native cultures.
We can begin by embracing mythologies aimed at exalting environmental sustainability and social equality.
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.
We are witnessing a historical push toward the dismantling of imperialism, the decentralization of power, and the welcoming of non-white, non-European values into conservation.
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