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  • An Urban Oasis

    July 11, 2023 |

    Native Science Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The First Nations Garden, run by the Chi-Nations Youth Council, is a gathering space for the area’s 65,000 Native people, providing them with a garden and a highly-requested green space that hosts regular events and provides cultural resources and education while fostering community.

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  • Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

    July 07, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    Farmer associations and Indigenous and local communities across Guatemala are working together to recover ancestral agricultural practices and educate farmers in agroecology. The collective, called the Utz Che’ Community Forestry Association, is building agroecology schools that are free to attend and facilitate co-learning in which students learn from each other. Their work protects native forests and local livelihoods from the damage caused by intensive monoculture.

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  • Muckleshoot Tribal College makes history with doctoral graduates

    July 02, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Muckleshoot Cohort is an Indigenous-led doctoral program in educational leadership that is built around Indigenous culture and knowledge. The initiative, which encourages students to reclaim their Native identities and tackle generational trauma related to the colonized education system, graduated 10 students in its inaugural class.

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  • In the land of honey and nuts: Indigenous solutions to save Brazil's Cerrado

    June 27, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Mato Grosso

    The Resilient Cerrado Project funds Indigenous-community-led economic projects in Brazil’s Cerrado region. Projects like the Terena people’s beehive installation and beekeeper training help to protect the region’s biodiversity, cultural diversity, and improve community members’ welfare.

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  • The race to put Indigenous land on the map

    June 20, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Malaysia, Sarawak

    Organizations like the Society for Rights of Indigenous People of Sarawak combine oral history interviews, GPS data, and GIS software to create visual maps of Indigenous lands in danger of being encroached on. While court cases around land rights are still ongoing, Indigenous people trained in the data collection say the mapping process has helped empower them and made them feel involved in protecting their communities’ rights.

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  • First cohort completes new nsyilxcən degree at UBCO: ‘our language is very strong'

    June 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    The first eight graduates of a new program run by the University of British Columbia Okanagan, the En’owkin Centre, and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology received their bachelor's of nsyilxcən language fluency degrees. The program is one of the ways the syilx Nation is revitalizing their language, which is critically endangered. Students spend their first two years learning from fluent speakers in the community and the second two years working on a capstone project that includes an internship.

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  • Immersive Language School Renews Generational Dreams of Cherokee Culture

    June 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Cherokee Nation, United States, Cherokee, North Dakota

    New Kituwah Academy Elementary provides immersive language education for members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, helping to keep the band’s language and culture alive. Students speak exclusively in Cherokee until third grade and then use both English and Cherokee throughout the school day to build proficiency in both languages.

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  • Oakland University becomes 1st US campus to return land use to Native American community

    May 25, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, Michigan

    After Indigenous students and faculty advocated for stolen land at Oakland University to be returned to the native community, the university made the land a heritage site, bypassing legal issues tied to development requirements and ensuring that the institution would have no say in the future of the site. The land is now home to a pawpaw orchard, a wildflower garden, and a fire pit for cooking and ceremonies.

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  • Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

    May 24, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Luiseño, United States, San Diego, California

    My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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  • Justice at the Tap

    May 18, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Flint, Michigan

    In response to the water crisis, grassroots organizers and community members are stepping up to provide aid and fill the gaps left by government authorities. Organizations like Flint Rising and DigDeep collect and donate bottled water and send volunteers door-to-door to ensure residents have access to clean drinking water. There is also the Navajo Water Project, which installs home water systems in those without access to running water or sewer lines, providing 1,200 gallons of water to homes in need, as well as jobs for members of the Navajo Nation.

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