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.
Indigenous lands
The fires that spread swiftly across the Amazon in recent weeks drew international attention to a problem Indigenous Brazilians have been facing for years.
In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature.
Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.
Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples need more authority in the federal and state project processes that affect them.
“As the original caretakers of these lands and territories, we have inherent authority over migration and demand an end to these barbaric acts.”
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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.
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