
22 Ways To Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
National Native American Heritage Month is a month-long celebration that kicks off on November 1st. We’ve put together some ideas to help you meaningfully celebrate it...
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Ownership of a California Redwood Forest Is Being Returned To Indigenous Guardianship
The InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council is working with Save the Redwoods League, which donated the land, to protect California’s remaining oil-growth forest, along with endangered species such as the northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet.
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How Radar Is Helping Track Down Lost Indigenous Grave Sites
Indigenous groups across Canada have used GPR — along with other site survey technologies such as magnetometry and drones — to identify more than 1,800 possible graves at former residential schools, confirming an open secret.
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Advocates Are Working To Give Water Legal Rights
Threatened by development, five bodies of water are suing the State of Florida, making the unprecedented argument that nature has legal rights, too.
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Caribou Herds Tripled Thanks To Indigenous Knowledge and Science
An Indigenous-led conservation program in British Columbia, Canada, has successfully increased a caribou herd from 38 individuals to 113 in less than a decade, according to a new study.
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This Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans
The Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy in Minneapolis offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore
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These People & Groups are Ensuring the Navajo Nation Has Access To Clean Water
Alongside Rotary and the nonprofit DigDeep, the Navajo are bringing a vital commodity to their ancestral homeland
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From Grassroots to Governments, LANDBACK Returns Stolen Land
Different tribes have varied histories of land dispossession, leading tribes to work with individuals, organizations, and governments to return Native land
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Good News: Indigenous Farmers Reclaim Time-honored Techniques
In myriad tribal communities, food sovereignty has blossomed from a concept into a full-blown movement.
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Meet 3 Indigenous women who are leading the way on climate change
This compilation features Indigenous people and their knowledge in the climate realm.
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How an Aboriginal woman fought a coal company... and won
Murrawah Maroochy Johnson, a 29-year-old Wirdi woman of the Birri Gubba Nation, led a lawsuit against the Waratah coal mine... and won.
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Landmark court ruling allows island fishing community to sustainably manage state park services in Brazil
For the first time in Brazil, a traditional community has been awarded the concession to manage and operate visitor facilities inside a state conservation unit.
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