Protecting the Climate, Healing the Environment The Natural Resources Department of the Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is ideally positioned to ensure that climate resiliency effor...
Across the country, Native communities are cultivating traditional knowledge and experience to steward Native resources and lands in ways that are creating long-term benefits for the environment, soci...
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows Perpetuate Native Lifeways and Ingenuity There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, along with 400 more that are not federally recognized. Tribe...
Held in partnership with Tahoma Peak Solutions, First Nations’ 2024 Food Sovereignty Summit hosted in Suquamish, Washington, centered Native approaches to sustaining Native food systems, caring for la...
The Poeh Cultural Center in Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico, is a gathering space for preserving Tewa Pueblo culture. As First Nations’ Cultural Treasures Initiative (CTI) community partner, the Poeh pre...
An artist from the Okanogan Basketweavers Association, a First Nations community partner, is hard at work. Photo by Jack George. First Nations has long recognized that traditional art is woven into th...
How a First Nations Apprenticeship Network is Advancing Native Entrepreneurs Across Indian Country Alexandera Houchin, a beginning farmer, tends to her one-quarter-acre organic farm in her tribe’s com...
Tina King Washington had more than enough good reasons for starting the Kwiyagat Community Academy on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. “I knew my tribe needed a school because our kids were not doing...
In the far northeast corner of California, in Siskiyou and Modoc Counties, there was quite a mess to clean up. More than 150 years of intensive grazing on this drought-stricken part of the Modoc Natio...
The copper mine looms over the Apache people at ceremony on Oak Flat with the circle of protective trucks. It has been a long journey for Apache Stronghold. A journey stretching out over two decades t...
On June 6, 2024, the world marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal day in history that turned the tide of WWII in favor of the United States and its allies in their fight to liberate France an...
Xine:wh-ding, Inc., is a Native nonprofit organization based on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in Northern California, and First Nations’ California Tribal Fund and Native Arts, Languages, and Kn...