Poor data collection by law enforcement creates a significant hurdle to understanding the crisis.
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Six ex-government scientists explain how they were made to bury climate science and why they decided to blow the whistle.
In Mendocino County, ‘guerilla gatherers’ risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive.
Physicality and communication are key elements at the Choctaw Nation’s annual tournament.
The new Haida film Sgaawaay K’uuna is as far from Hollywood as can be – and that’s its greatest strength.
Award-winning Diné writer Tacey Atsitty discusses her recent book and the accessibility of poetry today.
Tommy Orange deftly captures the urban-Indigenous experience in his debut novel.
The relocation of polling sites near the Navajo Nation months before midterm elections raises concerns of future voter suppression.
Across the Beaufort Sea, Bruce Inglangasak’s 350-mile journey home.
San Juan County’s Navajo population has lived for decades with a minority white government. This election could change that.
With restrictive new voter ID laws, Standing Rock leadership is sent into overdrive.
Since 2013, new laws have made it harder to vote — particularly for certain groups.
Costume company Yandy erases Indigenous women’s voices, even as it pays lip service to female empowerment.
At a property rights conference, prominent critics of tribal sovereignty and federal land management found common ground.
Indian Country’s most prominent advocacy group will meet this month amid massive staff departures and calls for investigations.
A twenty-year moratorium on uranium extraction in northern Arizona will stand.
Native Americans have low participation rates in federal and state elections, but the problem doesn’t lay with political passivism.
In rural areas without access to banking, tribal enterprises are helping fill gaps.
For the third year in a row, the tribal citizens won’t have commercial fishing.
A new novel follows two wanderers on a westward journey.
The recently confirmed justice was heavily opposed by Indigenous leaders.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ move to abruptly end its longstanding ‘policy’ is disingenuous.
A new report reveals that chronic understaffing at the Indian Health Service denies patients quality care.
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