To make change, leaders say the U.N. system needs to do a better job elevating Indigenous voices.
Indigenous Affairs
The rookie congresswoman says she wants to advance tribal autonomy.
The U.S. Forest Service has told a federal court it is not sure when it will move ahead with the review process.
An Indigenous fisherman describes how to hook a salmon, the meaning of life and his faithful dog Sturg.
A FEMA contractor’s incompetence in Alaska Native languages highlights a systemic problem.
In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.
In Wyoming, everybody wants influence over off-rez hunting — and nobody’s happy.
In coastal Western Alaska, wildlife and humans alike rely on good, thick ice.
At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’
Avoiding a new wave of green colonialism is an urgent concern among attendees of the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples.
The prolific filmmaker discusses his latest project and his attempt to make space for Indigenous voices.
On day two of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the climate crisis that Indigenous peoples are overwhelmingly expected to bear was highlighted.
The summit, beginning today, offers a rare opportunity to collaborate on stopping threats to Indigenous lands and lives.
An illustrated guide shows how some biodiversity preservation models evicted Indigenous communities from their homes.
Before Avi Kwa Ame became a national monument, there was the fight for Ward Valley.
Biden’s proclamation protects parts of the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada and includes tribal co-stewardship.
What would it look like to interpret the treaties as tribes understood them?
A Q&A with the Indigenous Land Alliance of Wyoming’s Yufna Soldier Wolf.
The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
Tribal nations say the decision to reduce water flow on the Klamath River “has more to do with potatoes than it does fish.”
The Biden administration’s policies signal a shift in lands management, but a sea change is yet to come.
The now-dead proposal to ‘investigate’ reservations was neither the beginning or the end of combative attitudes towards tribal nations in the state.
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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