The former director of the University of Montana’s creative writing program reflects on life with her late husband and the upcoming James Welch Native Lit Festival.
Indigenous Affairs
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.
To make change, leaders say the U.N. system needs to do a better job elevating Indigenous voices.
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
Native advocates share their hopes and relief after decades of fighting for their ancestral lands.
Four federal Indian law experts digest the Supreme Court’s ‘shocking‘ decision to grant state governments the power to prosecute crimes in Indian Country.
If the U.S. ever hopes to be in right relationship with the lands and waters it has seized, it must first restore its relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Thousands of salmon escaped into the Puget Sound. Then the controversy began.
Three years ago, the Supreme Court upheld the Crow Tribe’s off-reservation hunting rights. But treaty hunters in Wyoming still risk prosecution, even as non-Natives poach wildlife on tribal land with impunity.
Willamette Falls used to be a public place of laughter and sharing. It could be again, if painful politics don’t eclipse revitalization efforts.
As the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief’s image is minted onto a coin, her full humanity should be examined.
Chemicals dumped in the 1970s are still seeping into the food chain. But the Yurok Tribe is confident their birds will be OK.
Hunters, dairy farmers, utility operators, loggers, government agents and conservationists have all supported the tribe in helping North America’s largest land-based birds.
After decades of back-and-forth with federal authorities, the matrilineal descendants of Chief Seattle want federal recognition, once and for all.
Alisha Murphy discusses her vision of a robust tribal economy and the importance of community input.
Tribal communities in Arizona and Utah face environmental problems connected to the same radioactive resource: uranium.
At the close of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, leaders urge greater protections for human rights.
Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.
Women from the frontlines of extraction projects, and the boardrooms that fund them, came together to call for the end of extraction to ensure a sustainable future.
Indigenous youth caucus calls for demilitarization of Hawai‘i.
A researcher explains why she’s using settler-colonial methods to interrogate settler-colonialism in national parks.
Indigenous leaders at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples push for stronger support of the consultation process.
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