Reports analysis, vision & strategy bearing on indigenous peoples from around the world such as Native Americans, Aborigines, Inuit and Mayas, and includes content relating to discrimination and violence against indigenous peoples, their struggles to exercise their rights, maintain their culture, reclaim their land rights, protect their land, and more.
Marcio VerĆ” Mirim grew up listening to a family story. His grandfather, a leader of the semi-nomadic Guarani MbyĆ” Indigenous people, had…
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed…
Our feature-length documentary,Ā After Oil, was born in 2020 out of a series of essays published on this site, centered around climate justice,…
āFor a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,ā Frantz Fanon wrote in…
This investigation was reported in collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations. BLACK HILLS, S.D.āTrina Lone Hill wasnāt surprised that mining companies had…
He began planting the garden in 2013. It is on the route of the Trail of Tears, along which, in the 1830s,…
At the same time every morning, Elvidio Mercado saddles his horse and heads to his cattle ranch in the community of Pampa…
One of my favorite partsĀ of researchingĀ The Gastro Obscura CookbookĀ is talking to leaders in the food world about the recipes that matter most…
Last week, Native activists established a prayer camp near the site of a former internment camp for Dakota people. The camp was…
What is the purpose of a story? To change something or to protect it? Is it similar to the purpose of white…
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