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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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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...
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
Text
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...
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 cute def...
28 July 2020
Iloilo, Philippines
Text
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
Text
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...
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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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
Text
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...
15 April 2020
Palakkad, Kerala, India
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800-1500 Words
The Kudumbashree Mission aims to encourage agrobiodiversity projects in India and empower women farmers. These projects revive traditional and sustainable farming practices called “panchakrishi.” So far, there are 192...
1 April 2020
Menominee, Wisconsin, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Efforts are underway on the Menominee Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin to preserve the at-risk language of Menominee. That looks like conducting school entirely in Menominee, printing Menominee-language books, up...
10 March 2020
The Spirit Lake Reservation, North Dakota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Native American communities combat pervasive food insecurity with novel approaches to their Food Distribution Program which is a part of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The Spirit Lake Reservat...
10 February 2020
Odisha, India
Text
800-1500 Words
By returning to indigenous varieties of crops, farmers can increase ecological diversity and reliance to climate change. In India, hundreds of farmers in the state of Odisha have been returning to indigenous crops, li...
20 December 2019
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program at UCLA in California is offering a new kind of patient-centered care that has helped bring relief to families in the region. The program, which creates a care plan "that buil...
15 December 2019
Kathmandu, Nepal
Text
Under 800 Words
A Nepalese company called Traditional Homes was formed in order to restore traditional Newari homes to prevent them from being demolished. The houses are by the indigenous Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley and boas...
The Atlantic
Alia Wong
9 December 2019
Hawaii, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Experiential and immersive learning preserves indigenous cultures and languages. After nearly being lost by the mid-twentieth century, the Hawaiian language has seen a resurgence thanks to the culture-based educationa...
22 November 2019
Mardin, Turkey
Text
800-1500 Words
The Turkish organization, Living Soil, Local Seed, is working with Turkish women and Syrian refugees to help rebuild and diversify the local agricultural system that was once thriving. Using local knowledge and survey...
Mongabay
Nick Rodway
18 November 2019
Western Australia, Australia
Text
800-1500 Words
Revegetation and fire management practices are helping to preserve Australia’s biodiversity. In Western Australia, collaborative efforts between Environs Kimberley, an environmental NGO, and local rangers from the Fir...
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