I’m seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today.
Indigenous lands
It took riders 10 hours to reach remote families stranded in the aftermath of the “bomb cyclone” that devastated the Pine Ridge community.
Through a voluntary land tax and donations from land owners, this organization is working to create an alternative land base for Indigenous people in California’s East Bay.
An Indigenous journalist reflects on the 800-year-old cathedral and what “sacred” means to her.
Climate change is already damaging Indigenous ways of life. But tribes are adapting.
A new study raises questions about climate change policy for the decades ahead.
Finally, plant species have rights, too.
Since 2010, the Unist’ot’en have fought the transit of fossil fuels through their hereditary lands. In the last few days, police finally moved in. Here’s how we got to this point.
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke.
Liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness—these values date back to well before Columbus arrived in the Americas or Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.
Native women revitalize ceremony to resist the legacy of patriarchy that supports a long-entrenched history of abuse.
A non-Native journalist encounters a tribal-managed forest and an indigenous garden. “I had no idea how to use the English language to describe what I was seeing.”
Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past.
As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the U.S.’s past with the cruel practice.
How indigenous food is tied to important sacred stories.
Developed over thousands of years, traditional architecture can also build climate resiliency.
This Native climber created indigenous geotags for more than 40 mountains.
The houses are affordable and energy-efficient, and are bringing back elements of the Secwepemc’s hunter-gatherer culture.
“Rogue Scientists” was an inspired choice.
The Kashia’s success might be the first time that a tribe in the U.S. has held a private deed—as well as management rights—to their ancestral lands.
They’re reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
Photographer Josué Rivas spent seven months living at Standing Rock, documenting the gathering force of Native Americans and their allies. He says it wasn’t just a protest; it was an awakening.
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