Could Rights of Nature Laws Help Save Endangered Orcas?
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.
Indigenous lands
How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies
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.
Mauna Kea Protests Reveal Problems in Construction Processes on Native Lands
Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples need more authority in the federal and state project processes that affect them.
Indigenous People Demand an End to Detention on Stolen Lands
“As the original caretakers of these lands and territories, we have inherent authority over migration and demand an end to these barbaric acts.”
Are We Doing Vacations Wrong?
Radicalize your travel by being a better guest in someone else’s homeland.
A Route 66 Road Trip Through Indigenous Homelands
I’m seeking out the histories and communities that existed before Route 66 and that survive still today.
Lakota Youth Head Out on Search and Rescue Mission on Horseback
It took riders 10 hours to reach remote families stranded in the aftermath of the “bomb cyclone” that devastated the Pine Ridge community.
These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area
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.
Notre Dame and the Fight for Sacred Lands
An Indigenous journalist reflects on the 800-year-old cathedral and what “sacred” means to her.
How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change
Climate change is already damaging Indigenous ways of life. But tribes are adapting.
How Colonization of the Americas Killed 90 Percent of Their Indigenous People—and Changed the Climate
A new study raises questions about climate change policy for the decades ahead.
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice
Finally, plant species have rights, too.
Video: How This Tribe Got Their Coastal California Lands Returned
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.
9 Things You Need to Know About the Pipeline Blockade in B.C.
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.
How Native and White Communities Make Alliances to Protect the Earth
Tribal nations have always been on the front lines of environmental protection. Now their neighbors are catching up.
10 Podcasts That Every Social Justice Nerd Should Listen To
These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke.
Indigenous People Invented the So-Called “American Dream”
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.
Indigenous Culture Reasserts Women’s Power Through Dance
Native women revitalize ceremony to resist the legacy of patriarchy that supports a long-entrenched history of abuse.
Searching for Words in Indian Country
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.”
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
Water Protectors Take Action to Keep Pipeline Out of Black and Indigenous Communities
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
Resisting the Power Structures That Keep Colonialism Alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past.
Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents
As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the U.S.’s past with the cruel practice.
To Native Culture, the Salmon Decision Means More Than a Treaty Rights Win
How indigenous food is tied to important sacred stories.
The Lost Indigenous Housing Designs
Developed over thousands of years, traditional architecture can also build climate resiliency.
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