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4 November 2020
Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia
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800-1500 Words
Five different Indigenous groups formed an alliance known as the Union of Traditional Age Medics of the Colombian Amazon to practice spiritual ceremonies and community healing based on the ingestion of a potent halluc...
2 November 2020
Maine, United States
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Over 3000 Words
To confront and fix Maine's practice of removing Native American children from their communities and giving them to white families for adoption, the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commissi...
30 October 2020
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
The city of Chennai in India is engaging in wetlands restoration and stormwater management by using traditional knowledge and community action to reduce flooding and ensure that people have access to drinking water. T...
23 October 2020
Botswana
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Over 3000 Words
Botswanans have deprioritized deeply held tribal identities, created a national identity, and found societal stability by using the practice of randomly assigning civil servants to different parts of the country. Send...
12 October 2020
Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Maine, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The Penobscot Nation's Healing to Wellness Court is a drug court, diverting people charged with drug offenses from possible fines and jail into therapy. But it has an added cultural element, providing traditional heal...
8 October 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Native American Community Clinic in Minneapolis is utilizing telehealth practices to treat both the medical and spiritual needs of the community and its patients. Although the "spiritual-meets-traditional care pro...
6 October 2020
Telukunchi, Andhra Pradesh, India
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1500-3000 Words
The Asian openbill stork makes its home in the Telukunchi village in India for six months of the year, and the locals band together to protect this migratory bird. The birds thrive off of the wetlands environment and ...
30 September 2020
Wyoming, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Massive herds of bison once roamed the American prairie, powering the "wildlife economy" and making Plains Native American tribes both rich and healthy. Now, indigenous tribes are bringing back what was once a cultura...
24 September 2020
British Columbia, Canada
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Finding common ground between environmentalists, logging companies, and indigenous communities to protect the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada took years of discussion and even a dance at an Elton John concert. But the...
22 September 2020
South Auckland, New Zealand
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1500-3000 Words
In South Auckland, epicenter of New Zealand's high rates of domestic violence, police respond to calls for help but instantly call in Te Taanga Manawa, a Māori-led team of multiple, culturally appropriate social-servi...
Honolulu Civil Beat
Wilfred C. Alik
11 September 2020
Hawaii, United States
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Under 800 Words
Pacific Islander communities in Hawaii have formed their own Covid-19 task forces to stop the virus’ spread, rather than wait for the government to respond. Despite a lack of resources, the task forces conduct communi...
10 September 2020
Gopalganj, Bihar, Bangladesh
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1500-3000 Words
Bangladeshi communities are reviving a traditional method of crop cultivation known as floating vegetable gardens to grow food during monsoon season. On these floating organic beds, farmers can grow vegetables like ok...
2 September 2020
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Indigenous communities in Louisiana are working with scientists to restore wetland ecosystems and protect tribal mounds along the Gulf Coast through backfilling projects. Depleted oil wells and canals in the area are ...
24 August 2020
Mariposa, California, United States
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
To combat wildfires in California, Native American tribal leaders and government officials are coming together to facilitate “cultural burnings” or controlled burns. Regularly burning the landscape prevents thick, dri...
22 August 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Remembering global indigenous connections allows tribes and those whose families were forced from their native lands, to strengthen their familiarity of traditions and of knowledge that was handed down for centuries. ...
21 August 2020
Maranhão, Brazil
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Women “warriors” of the indigenous Guajajara people in Brazil use drones to patrol their territory of the Amazon rainforest in an effort to prevent deforestation. Because of their work, they have been able to cut defo...
3 August 2020
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS) kickstarted the Black is Beautiful movement with 1960s fashion shows elevating Black models with dark skin and full bodies, who agreed to keep their hair natural year-rou...
28 July 2020
Iloilo, Philippines
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1500-3000 Words
Conservations in the Philippines are using indigenous beliefs known as “mariit” — which is the belief that nature is inhabited by unseen dwellers and should be respected and taken care of — to protect the country’s en...
21 July 2020
Michigan, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Food bartering helps families during times of food insecurity, which is often exacerbated by crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Families with lower incomes have bartered for food for a long time but the pandemic ha...
6 July 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Minnesota, volunteer chaplains are attending community events at the request of the participants to provide counsel and support to anyone who may be experiencing symptoms of trauma. Before attending any event to le...
19 June 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Aware that already-high rates of mental health problems and suicide in native American populations could grow even worse during COVID-19 isolation, a number of support groups rolled out online sessions that have attra...
Yes! Magazine
Tracy Barnett
17 June 2020
Oaxaca, Mexico
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1500-3000 Words
Mark Brown has brought Ghandian economic principles of economic justice and local autonomy to the Mexican countryside to form a farm-to-garment textile business that employs villagers who once made woolen textiles unt...
30 May 2020
Alaska, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To the Gwich’in Athabascan people living inside the Arctic Circle in Alaska, the decades-long fight against oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) represents more than an environmental struggle: I...
26 May 2020
New Mexico, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Across Navajo Nation, young people are coming together to protect their elders through grassroots efforts and campaigns. They’ve created online campaigns, like Protect the Sacred and #NavajoStrong to help provide accu...
Mongabay
Karlston Lapniten
21 April 2020
Cordillera Administrative Region, Indonesia
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800-1500 Words
To combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, provinces in the northern Philippines have implemented a tengao, an indigenous version of a lockdown. Since community elders invoked the lockdown, the region has recorded...
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