Native Life

Hope in Turbulent Times: Native Leaders Take the Long View

Representatives from three tribes discuss how their communities have learned to endure by celebrating connections

Indigenous Artists Give Minnesota a Map Makeover

A roundtable conversation with three women who are reviving land-based wisdom and history from a Dakota perspective

Miigwechiwendam: To Be Thankful

What a thousand-year-old Indigenous prayer teaches us about reciprocity and healing from the destructive consumption of our society

Young Voters Are Getting Tribal Citizens to the Polls

Native Americans in swing states could help decide the 2024 election. Can they overcome barriers to vote?

Montana Tribal Citizens File Lawsuit Over Alleged Voter Suppression

Does GOP control of the U.S. Senate hinge on stopping Natives from voting in November?

Water Protectors Use Novel Legal Tactic to Challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline

Novel anti-SLAPP laws could help uncover Dakota Access Pipeline secrets

Project 2025 and Its Plans for the Nation’s Public Lands

Native leader says massive deregulation would lead to “total desecration”

On the Chopping Block

BLM plans to raze 380,000 acres of pinyon-juniper forests vital to Nevada tribes

Federal Courts Sentence Native Americans to Longer Prison Terms

How federal authority over tribes fails to provide equal justice under the law
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Native Life
May 6, 2024

The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots

“Cannabis and hemp offer solutions to many challenges in an industrial society”

Native Life
April 22, 2024

Looting Tribal Land

Individuals and corporations trespass on Native property and plunder resources, with little accountability

Native Life
March 4, 2024

The Bad River Chippewa Take on an Oil Giant: Review of ‘Bad River: A Story of Defiance’

A new film chronicles how the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are united in their opposition to Enbridge pipelines