Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...
Like many residents of Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Jacques Powers wears clothes and boots painted with dirt and mud and gets around in a humming monster truck. But no matter where ...
Native American backpackers in Northeast Oregon’s Joseph Canyon stop to savor their connection with the land during a backpacking trip in January 2018. The canyon was named after the legendary Chief ...
The Fund for Santa Barbara has launched the Chumash Reparative Action Fund with an initial $25,000 offering that supports the Northern Chumash Tribal Council’s work to reclaim ancestral land at Dos ...
For decades, global conservation efforts relied heavily on one dominant philosophy: protect nature by removing people from it. Forests became “preserves,” rivers became “resources,” and entire ...
For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into three springs in Tabarelzinho village, inside the Taquaritiua Indigenous ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The 2025 U.N. climate conference, COP30, will run from Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and is expected to host the largest participation of Indigenous ...
An order of Catholic nuns in Wisconsin recently returned land they had purchased in 1966 to the Indigenous tribe that originally settled it. During a ceremony with deep spiritual symbolism, the ...
Native American backpackers in Northeast Oregon’s Joseph Canyon stop to savor their connection with the land during a backpacking trip in January 2018. The canyon was named after the legendary Chief ...