Our Living Lands

Woman unloads packages of bison meat from the back of a pickup truck.

How bison meat and chokecherry jam are helping with Indigenous food insecurity

Hannah Habermann

Across the country, Indigenous communities are facing increasing levels of food insecurity. In response, tribes are stepping up their food sovereignty efforts.

Two women sit at a picnic table in front of Lake Tahoe on the shores of Zephyr Cove.

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Washoe nonprofit hopes to regain land in Tahoe Basin to build cultural and spiritual center

Kat Fulwider

The Washoe people believe the Tahoe Basin is the spiritual center of their world. They only have limited access to its shores but grassroots nonprofit aims to change that, healing both land and people.

Ice cellars, constructed of wood boards, rest on a grassy field with the ocean looming in the background.

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Reporting from Savoonga in the Bering Sea

Alena Naiden

Alaska Desk reporter Alena Naiden spoke to Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding about her reporting from Savoonga on the effort to preserve traditional ice cellars, climate change’s impact on subsistence and more.

A man wearing a winter coat sits on a four wheeler and looks out through binoculars across a wide plain that gently descends to the outside of Savoonga, Alaska.

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As climate change threatens subsistence, Savoonga is going from reindeer herding to a red meat industry

Alena Naiden

Climate change has threatened subsistence practices in the Arctic. Alena Naiden reports how one village in Alaska is trying to transform reindeer herding practices into a sustainable business.

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How the Miccosukee Tribe is protecting its land

Daniel Spaulding

The Miccosukee Tribe has faced climate change on their lands in the Florida Everglades. Now they are fighting a federal immigration detention center.

Steven Wadsworth, chairman of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, stands on the shore of Pyramid Lake with desert mountains rising in the background.

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Why Tribes are concerned about the data center boom

Daniel Spaulding

Data centers are powering a technological boom but they also use a lot of water. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Kaleb Roedel about his reporting on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's concerns about a data center near their reservation.

Book cover of The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis. The image shows a woman wearing a green dress standing on the shore of a river with trees rising up in the background.

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A new book exploring Yurok land, water, and life

Daniel Spaulding

Amy Bowers Cordalis is a Yurok attorney who has fought to protect her people's land, water, and way of life. Our Living Lands producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Cordalis about her new book, The Water Remembers.

A red sign reading, "Keep Lahaina Lands in Lahaina Hands," is posted on a charred lot. On the neighboring lot is a new building in the process of being constructed.

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How climate change is impacting Indigenous people in the Pacific

Daniel Spaulding

Climate is impacting Indigenous communities in the Pacific. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Anita Hofschneider, a reporter who covers issues including sea level rise, fires and storms.

A woman wearing a baseball hat and glasses reaches high into a tree with a long red pole to pick apples.

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Making apple cider is a sweet way to reduce bear conflicts

Hanna Merzbach

Picking apples to make cider is one way the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes on the Flathead Indian Reservation are helping to reduce conflicts between grizzly bears and humans. The Mountain West News Bureau’s Hanna Merzbach reported on the process from Northwest Montana.

Women wearing colorful robes stand facing the sun with visitors seated in the background at the 72nd annual Comanche Nation Homecoming Powwow on July 19, 2025, in southwest Oklahoma.

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Inside the complex fight over critical minerals on Indigenous lands

Sarah Liese (Twilla)

The Westwin Elements nickel refinery in Lawton, Oklahoma is trying to provide a domestic source for critical minerals. KOSU’s Sarah Liese highlights what is at stake for Westwin Elements, as they work to secure the mineral supply chain, and the tribal nations who oppose it.