As Floods Become More Frequent, Climate Change Threatens Seminole Tribe of Florida
Valholly Frank is 18 years old. She grew up in South Florida, spending her time between the Big Cypress Reservation,…
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Indigenous Foods Day
It’s Time to Rename Thanksgiving Most people in North America do not know it was Abraham Lincoln who created the…
Reflecting on the Maine-Wabanaki Child Welfare TRC Commission Five Years Later
The Wabanaki is both the People and the Place of First Light. Collectively they are the tribes: Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy,…
What Truth and Reconciliation Looks Like in Practice
Black Lives Matter protests have continued for months, in the wake of what feels like endless police violence. In fact,…
Foraging, and Forging, Connections in Cities
Urban foraging can feed the hungry, prevent wildfires, reduce the use of herbicides, restore ancestral memory and inspire action to…
How Native Hawaiians Are Taking Internet Access Into Their Own Hands
There is a sovereign, 55-acre territory on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu, Pu‘uhonua o Waimanalo, that, for the first time,…
We Are All on Native Land
With three news bureaus nationwide and a partnership with the Associated Press, Indian Country Today brings Native voices to mainstream…
Indian Country Today joins the Associated Press
ON OCTOBER 1, an Associated Press headline read, “Indigenous filmmaker strikes playful tone with showcase ad.” The story—one of the…