Indigenous

In the Arctic, temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than the rest of the world. For Indigenous people in the Arctic, these shifts can be life-changing. How are they adapting to these changes?

The Tanka Fund is an Indigenous led-nonprofit organization based in South Dakota that works with Indigenous ranchers across the country to return buffalo to their lands. This practice is important not just to the various tribes, but also for the environment.

Choctaw citizen and filmmaker Colleen Thurston explores how Indigenous communities have been impacted by natural resource extraction and displacement in her new documentary Drowned Land, which is about the continued fight to safeguard Oklahoma's Kiamichi River.

Invasive species are among the biggest drivers of biodiversity losses around the world. They’re also increasingly affecting tribal lands, and climate change is making it worse.

In the Western U.S., extreme wildfires are damaging tribal lands. Climate change has only made the situation more dire. That’s why the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California is working to reintroduce intentional, cultural fire. These are once-banned burning practices they use to restore the health of their forests and plants.

Rising seas are forcing Indigenous communities to move. Higher temperatures are causing drought and loss of traditional foods. Michael Charles, a Navajo professor at Cornell University, is trying to quantify the impact of climate change on Indigenous life in North America. Our Living Lands producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Charles about his work.

Horse Creek is the last known free-flowing groundwater stream in Laramie County, meaning it’s fed by an underground aquifer rather than snowmelt. Its waters also weave through the history of the area. Students from two high schools on the Wind River Reservation and the University of Wyoming School of Law took a trip there to connect with the land.

Archeologists at the Udax̂tan site in Unalaska are trying to protect artifacts from being destroyed by storms and rising seas. Other sites face similar dangers as climate change makes weather more intense.

Several regional native tribes gathered on Friday for the 13th annual Return of the Boise Valley People to celebrate their cultures and traditions.

The $135 million will go towards building and maintaining residential solar installations on a number of reservations.