What Indigenous Culture Can Teach Us About a Fair Economy
Rebecca Adamson offers Native American views on scarcity, Wall Street, and how to thrive in hard times.
Native rights
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice
Finally, plant species have rights, too.
How Native Culture Helped Shape Rock 鈥檔鈥� Roll
Native musicians played an oversize role in the history of American music. A documentary to air on PBS sets the record straight.
9 Things You Need to Know About the Pipeline Blockade in B.C.
Since 2010, the Unist鈥檕t鈥檈n have fought the transit of fossil fuels through their hereditary lands. In the last few days, police finally moved in. Here鈥檚 how we got to this point.
Why You Couldn鈥檛 Find Big Media Coverage of Haaland and Davids
Time has run out to convince colonized newsrooms that Indigenous issues and perspectives are necessary to the national narrative.
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.
Racial Justice | Wealth and inequality | Local power | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands
10 Podcasts That Every 猫咪社区 Nerd Should Listen To
These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke.
How Standing Rock Changed the Course of a Doctor鈥檚 Life
The camp was 鈥渙ne of the most soulfully powerful places I鈥檝e ever been,鈥� says a volunteer medic.
Don鈥檛 Trash Thanksgiving. Decolonize It
Despite the holiday鈥檚 false origin tale, we can celebrate in ways that honor those originally dishonored by the day.
鈥淲e Are Still Here鈥�: Native Americans Win a Voice in Government
In light of important midterm election wins, two Native journalists revisit the influence of Indigenous peoples on democracy through the ages.
Telling the Truth as a Means of Healing
A new documentary shows how one state is confronting Native American child removal.
Have Republicans Rallied the Native Vote?
Native voters in North and South Dakota embrace the value of their vote since Standing Rock.
Indigenous People Invented the So-Called 鈥淎merican Dream鈥�
Liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness鈥攖hese values date back to well before Columbus arrived in the Americas or Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock.
Indigenous Culture Reasserts Women鈥檚 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. 鈥淚 had no idea how to use the English language to describe what I was seeing.鈥�
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here鈥檚 how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
I Inherited My Grandfather鈥檚 Trauma鈥攁nd His Healing Culture
Returning to culture is a duty my grandfather believed Native elders had to their communities. He passed this on to me, along with his trauma.
Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This
A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don鈥檛 know.
Meet the Indigenous Women Keeping Native Businesses Close to Home
Entrepreneurs have limited access to capital and business education on the reservation. A Navajo incubator wants to change that.
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.
How Native American Children Benefit From Trauma-Informed Schools
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, 鈥淚s there anything I can do to help you?鈥� rather than 鈥淲hy are you acting this way?鈥�
Citizens United | Racial Justice | Immigration | Reproductive rights | Activism | Gender justice | Democratic reforms | Local power
How to Reclaim the Narrative鈥攁nd Power鈥攊n Post-Truth America
Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.
Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
A Mohawk Midwife鈥檚 Birth Stories
鈥淭he stories of how we鈥檙e born are so important and give so much guidance to a child鈥檚 life.鈥�
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation鈥檚 cultural identity.
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