Wary of local authorities, a community forms an ad-hoc firefighting force to defend its property.
Communities
A high schooler’s photo essay documents what it’s like to go through intense change in a place that never changes.
In October 1871, a frenzied mob was responsible for the largest lynching in U.S. history.
‘These legal systems are not set up for Indigenous people at all.’
The hidden history of Santa Monica’s Black coastal enclaves.
A resettlement agency in Twin Falls, Idaho, prepares for newcomers.
Headwaters Economics shines a light on record-breaking costs in the West.
Descendants of those enslaved by Native tribes are gaining political momentum. Here’s a primer on the issues surrounding Freedmen and tribal recognition.
Wildfires often hit low-income, minority families the hardest. Talent, Oregon, offers a home-grown solution to the displacement that follows.
Communities are turning to land trusts and real estate cooperatives as possible solutions.
‘These youth are going to be able to take ownership of healing the land at Fort Belknap.’
How three Native American students took on the challenges of their first year away from home.
Far-right extremists are robbing the West of the officials who protect community health.
A former Native boarding school turned liberal arts college in Durango reckons with its ugly history.
What we share and what we keep quiet in small mountain towns.
Indigenous communities face disproportionate barriers to voting, but the act would help protect this important right.
A photographer intimately documents how families are recovering one year after the Almeda Fire.
The state found that the timber tracts offered in a proposed trade are worth much less than the land around Payette Lake.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel ponders endings from beginnings.
What it means to contribute to the future of a place.
How a tribal community’s health is intimately connected to the health of the river.
Landlords and property managers filed more than 11,000 eviction notices since April 2020.
Tribal scientists and community members are testing wells, solving plumbing problems and delivering clean water to their neighbors.
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