Native Medicinals

04/12/2023

02/03/2022

of course they were here all along

Yvette Running Horse Collin’s recent dissertation may have rewritten every natural history book on the shelf. A Lakota/Nakota/Cheyenne scholar, Collin worked

09/12/2021

Read to the end of this. Good, practical information.

Runners see the impact of climate change up close in stunted corn, drought, heat, fires and wind storms

03/03/2021

A post-petroleum transition plan.

02/27/2021

From blue corn to bison, narrow federal food-safety codes impact tribal food systems. But advocates are writing their own food laws to preserve Native food sovereignty.

02/07/2021

When the pandemic hit, Chickasaw Nation leaders quickly assembled to decide how they could best spend their CARES Act funding to support their community.

01/25/2021

'Thank you, for your ‘commitment to protecting sacred lands and the Gwich’in’s way of life’'

01/24/2021

Robert Anderson and Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes announced as members of Interior Department under the Biden-Harris administration

01/03/2021

“Food sovereignty is the next step and sort of revolution for us. Sometimes people don’t see the connection between food sovereignty and (activism). How are you supposed to fight for yo…

12/28/2020

12/26/2020

From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute which presented the Yanomamis’ courageous and painful story.

12/26/2020

The farmland purchase reclaims an ancestral village site known as “the place of boulders,” or Am’sáaxpa, in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after the Nez Perce Tribe was pushed out the area.

12/18/2020

Indian Country reactions from social media posts and statements

08/07/2020

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This week on Meet a Scientist, get to know Rose Bear Don’t Walk, an ethnobotanist, tribal foods consultant at Indigenous PACT, Pbc., and one of our inaugural fellows for our Fellowship for the Future program.

07/10/2020

The 5-4 decision could reshape criminal justice in eastern Oklahoma by preventing state authorities from prosecuting Native Americans

07/06/2020

Yes

Owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) must halt operations while the government conducts a full-fledged analysis examining the risk DAPL poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, a federal judge ruled today. The court decision delivered a hard-fought victory to the Tribe, which has been engaged....

06/18/2020

"We want to protect this land," said the tribe's state chairman. "We don't want to see a pipeline go through."