Grace Hussain: For Siċaŋġu Nation, Taking Food Sovereignty Back Means Eating Climate-Friendly
Mushrooms, bison, and foraged plants offer a critical mix of new and old food traditions.
Jason E. Ybarra: How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming their celebrations of the summer solstice − and using them to resist
In 1883, the U.S. government began a campaign to suppress the Sun dances, designating them as offenses for which penalties included imprisonment.
Chase Iron Eyes: Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Native Sovereignty—For Now
The weaponization of our children in order to stamp out our cultures—because, of course, a family or a nation without children has no future—continued after the boarding school era with the epidemic of state-sponsored removal of our young ones and their placement into non-Native foster care.
Video: America’s Native Prisoners of War
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson.
Jacqueline Keeler: Notre Dame and the Fight for Sacred Lands
An Indigenous journalist reflects on the 800-year-old cathedral and what “sacred” means to her.
George Nicholas: After Thousands of Years, Western Science Is Slowly Catching Up to Indigenous Knowledge
Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans aren’t around, has steadily increased over the last 50 years. For example, we know … Continue reading
Video: Mni Wiconi — The Stand at Standing Rock
. This gorgeous short film features water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies trying to stop the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline – DAPL. Interviews in the film include … Continue reading
Vincent Spina: Cosmology, Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline
More than sacred burial grounds. more than water, more than the ecology itself, Native American resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline may spring from a world view thousands of years … Continue reading
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council: Why We Resist
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), owned by Houston, Texas based corporation called Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. which created the subsidary Dakota Access LLC. The DAPL, also known as the Bakken … Continue reading
Sharon Doubiago: Free Him
“My real name or Dakota name is Tate Wicuwa, Wind That Chases the Sun.” — Leonard Peltier You bring into his cell Crazy Horse’s white Appaloosa. He lowers his … Continue reading
