Finding Hope
Younger students see with unclouded vision what is broken and bring unfettered commitment to making the world around them better.
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Bringing Good Fire Back to the Land
Grand Canyon prescribed pile burning, May 2019. Photo by Grand Canyon National Park, used under Creative Commons license 2.0
With Tribal communities leading the way, we are reconsidering fire suppression and researching and implementing prescribed burning to mitigate the destructive force of massive wildfire.
I Am Nothing Without My Relatives
Some of us live in the places where our ancestors are buried. Others carry our ancestors with us.
Gge-mijmen I Mnomen (Let’s Eat Wild Rice)
Eating traditional Indigenous foods such as mnomen not only nourishes the body—it also enables us to connect with our ancestors and keep our original food traditions alive.
Truth and Healing about Indian Boarding Schools
A group of children at Kamloops Residential School, 1931, Deschatelets-NDC Archives in Richelieu, Quebec, Item 10a-c000432-d0002-001. Retrieved from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, https://archives.nctr.ca/
The legacy of boarding schools is difficult to face, but knowing the truth can help us heal.
Learning the Names of Plants
The process of learning to recognize native plants, observing as they experience their seasons while I walk my favorite forest hikes, is one of the best parts of my days.
Connecting to Indigenous Literatures
Contemporary Indigenous storytellers and writers help bridge the gap between our internal experiences and the world around us.
Why We Wear Ribbons
Secretary Deb Haaland wore a ribbon skirt designed by Agnes Woodward (Plains Cree) to her ceremonial swearing-in. (Photo by Tami Heilemann, Department of the Interior. Shared from Native News Online.)
As we think about and work toward cultural sovereignty, perhaps we should consider how Native people adapt our experiences and make them uniquely our own.