Ultimately, food sovereignty reflects unique cultural values and histories while returning control of food systems to local actors. Efforts that emphasize local policy and regulation are effective tools for facilitating increased capacity and bolstering efforts.
New Mexico voted this week to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. It is the fifth state to do so.
Pine Ridge has become one of the leading destinations for philanthropic work in Indian Country, especially among evangelical Christian churches and charities. Every spring comes a new crop of voluntourists and missionaries with their neocolonialist ways.
Native American and Muslim women joined Congress this month for the first time ever. Their victories may pave the way for further gains.
For many Americans, a government shutdown is at worst a mere inconvenience, but for Indian Country, it can mean life or death.
If you are interested in racial and economic equity—in community development, rural development, food security, the environment, and a host of other issues—you should understand the basics of land justice.
In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, which banned the previously common practice of public officials forcibly taking Native American children from their families and placing them in non-Native families and institutions. A new court ruling keeps these protections in place for the moment, but the law remains at risk.
North American natural history museums have often had fraught relationships with Native American peoples. But a pop-up museum led in part by Native activists emphasizes “the sociopolitical forces that shape nature” and partners with other museums and institutions to raise awareness of environmental issues.
By training public school teachers, the Museum of the American Indian seeks to change the narratives we tell ourselves about US and American Indian history, with the story of Thanksgiving a case in point.
Little attention is paid to the alarming number of Indigenous women and girls who disappear or are murdered each year. A new report released by the Urban Indian Health Institute aims to shed light on these cases.
