The U.S. poet laureate’s new collection of poems incorporates history and breaks time.
Indigenous Affairs
In Beth Piatote’s first short-story collection, a niece learns beading and other lessons.
In a collection of essays, writers defy expectations and examine place.
In his debut collection, poet Jake Skeets summons beauty through darkness.
U.S. citizens recovering from natural disasters receive $26 per person, per year from the federal government. Tribal citizens? Just $3.
As tribes fight to save their languages from extinction, has the government done enough?
Members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation gather to begin a new cycle for salmon.
Rick Desautel shot an elk to prove the Arrow Lakes Band — unrecognized as a First Nation in Canada — still exists.
The event celebrates the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Bay island’s occupation.
A High Country News investigation finds the EPA awarded Tetra Tech a contract despite knowing its subsidiary had likely engaged in data manipulation, false reporting and profiteering.
Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.
Finland will repatriate more than 600 items to 26 tribes.
The seminal film, while important for finally having Native representation, relied on stereotypes.
A Yurok Tribe resolution allows cases to be brought on behalf of the river as a person in tribal court.
In Mendocino County, ‘guerrilla gatherers’ risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive.
Physicality and communication are key elements at the Choctaw Nation’s annual tournament.
Why remaking ‘Last of the Mohicans’ isn’t just damaging, it’s lazy and unimaginative.
The first-ever Navajo majority commission halted a legal challenge to the ruling that ended discriminatory voting boundaries.
From Nazi Germany to Norway and El Paso, white nationalists use Indigenous imagery to justify racist violence.
Hepi Mita offers a fascinating look at his mother’s life in ‘Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen.’
Dozens of Native American-themed costumes are no longer available online.
A story of fire, stolen lands, and how hard it is to get the U.S. to follow its own laws.
Public lands are often the only places where Indigenous sacred landscapes still exist.
- Salmon swim above the Grand Coulee Dam for first time in 80 years
- WiFi, Amazon and food trucks: Trump team’s vision for national parks
- The U.S. has spent more money erasing Native languages than saving them
- Influx of grizzly bears compels Montanans to adapt
- Hiking trails are a path to destruction for Colorado elk
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