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.
Native rights
Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change
Preparing food鈥攁nd letting others in our communities cook for us鈥攊s how we become good citizens who engage with the communities around us.
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.鈥檚 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.
Farming as Resistance
Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees.
Poem: A Make-Believe Nation
How can living in paradise be so hard?
The Lost Indigenous Housing Designs
Developed over thousands of years, traditional architecture can also build climate resiliency.
Posting Your Hike on Instagram? Now You Can Tag Your Location鈥檚 Indigenous Name
This Native climber created indigenous geotags for more than 40 mountains.
Indigenous Women Built These Tiny Houses to Block a Pipeline鈥攁nd Reclaim Nomadic Traditions
The houses are affordable and energy-efficient, and are bringing back elements of the Secwepemc鈥檚 hunter-gatherer culture.
How a University and a Tribe Are Teaming Up to Revive a Lost Language
At Miami University in Ohio, the Myaamia Center is revitalizing culture and building racial equity. The project was decades in the making.
Native and European鈥擧ow Do I Honor All Parts of Myself?
Learning about my roots has helped me understand intergenerational trauma and cultural resilience related to my genetics.
Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education
More than a century ago, the last fluent speakers of W么pan芒ak passed away. Now this school is working to revive the language.
How Indigenous Knowledge Is Transforming the March for Science
鈥淚ndigenous peoples were always scientists. Their lives depended on it."
To Decolonize Our Minds, Start With Words
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn鈥檛 one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
White Allies, Let鈥檚 Be Honest About Decolonization
I want to experience the solidarity of allied actions that refuse fantastical narratives of commonality and hope.
How This Tribe Got Their Coastal California Lands Returned
The Kashia鈥檚 success might be the first time that a tribe in the U.S. has held a private deed鈥攁s well as management rights鈥攖o their ancestral lands.
5 Indigenous Women Asserting the Modern Matriarchy
They鈥檙e reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
鈥淒ecolonization Starts Inside of You鈥�
Photographer Josu茅 Rivas spent seven months living at Standing Rock, documenting the gathering force of Native Americans and their allies. He says it wasn鈥檛 just a protest; it was an awakening.
#DeleteFacebook? Not in Indian Country
The social network has done more for bolstering the modern Indigenous rights agenda than perhaps any other platform of our time.
The Indigenous Collective Using Tattoos to Rise Above Colonialism
Spirit writing is more than tattoos. It鈥檚 guidance from the past that connects our responsibilities to each other and to earth.
What Standing Rock Gave the World
Americans saw the Indigenous struggle鈥攖he violence, stolen resources, colluding corporations and governments鈥攖hat goes hand in hand with protecting the Earth.
Decolonizing Birth: Women Take Back Their Power as Life-Givers
鈥淲e鈥檙e just beginning to bring those Indigenous perspectives forward again.鈥�
The Disruption of White Supremacy
The white male-centric colonial system is incapable of the leadership we need, and Indigenous knowledge is essential for the innovation that will follow this disruption.
After Thousands of Years, Western Science Is Slowly Catching Up to Indigenous Knowledge
New research about how birds use fire to get a broader food supply comes as no surprise to Indigenous people.
Hey, Trump: Navajo Elders Aren鈥檛 Your Political Props
This week, Trump is using Natives to target the Bears Ears National Monument. Last week, it was Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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