The Our Living Lands team includes host Jill Fratis (Unangax from St. Paul Island, Alaska), editor Joseph Lee (Aquinnah Wampanoag), and reporter/producer Daniel Spaulding (Nimíipúu). Mountain West News Bureau Managing Editor Michael de Yoanna oversees the program. Theme music by Delbert Anderson (Navajo).
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The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California bought over 10,000 acres of land from the city of Santa Clara. This is the first of many land purchases the tribe plans to make to restore Indigenous land and benefit the environment. -
Captain Paiute, the main character of an Indigenous comic book series created by Theo Tso, brings the protection of the Southwest to the forefront from the perspective of an Indigenous hero. -
In southern Oklahoma, the Chickasaw Nation is planting trees to combat climate change. The project is also ensuring that Chickasaw culture gets passed down to the next generation. -
As climate change and historic inequities continue to create barriers to outdoor recreation, one skiing nonprofit in rural Alaska is working to help Indigenous people hit the trails. -
Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Kiara Tanta-Quidgeon, a Mohegan community advocate and health researcher, about public health challenges facing Indigenous communities and the connections between health and climate. -
Gerardo Aldana is a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Our Living Lands producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Gerardo Aldana, a professor at University of California, about Mayan astronomy, Mesoamerican culture, and the importance of Indigenous knowledge. -
The Mountain West News Bureau’s Rachel Cohen reported from an event where Denver donated bison to several tribes and nonprofits. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding talked to Cohen about the experience. -
Today, tribes are working to bring back bison, which once roamed Indigenous lands by the millions. Some are getting help to rebuild their herds from the city of Denver, which manages two herds. -
Sarah Ortegon, a visual artist, actor and dancer has a new body of work being featured in an exhibition at the Ucross Foundation ranch in Wyoming where she is a Native American Artist fellow. Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann spoke with Ortegon to talk craft, creativity and politics. -
Colonialism drove beavers off their land, harming both the environment and people living on it. Blackfeet Nation beaver experts want to bring them back. -
Crisosto Apache was recently named Colorado’s poet laureate, the first Indigenous person to hold that title. Apache is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné. -
Nika Bartoo-Smith is a reporter who covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding spoke with Bartoo-Smith about her work and the impact of climate change on tribes in the region.
