Finding a lever for civilizational transformation
From Indigenous-led governance to worker-owned cooperatives, scattered experiments may offer a blueprint for a pathway out of our global predicament.
indigenous communities
Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado river water. Four states are stalling the deal
A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river.
Making ‘Land Back’ a reality through an Indigenous community land trust
How the Wiyot people and local organizers are using an “honor tax” system to advance Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
A vote to mine near the Boundary Waters puts a vital freshwater wilderness at risk
The effort to open parts of the Superior National Forest to copper-nickel mining has become a test case for how far governments are willing to go in trading long-term ecological protection for short-term resource extraction.
‘The forest needs the bees’: Indigenous beekeepers on the front line of Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Indigenous communities in South America are raising native bees to help protect the insects, conserve forests, and strengthen their own cultural ties to the ecosystem.
So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis (excerpt)
A Mennonite book on the coming crisis: “We are fighting to dismantle structures designed to remove Indigenous Peoples from their land so that our economic system can continue to extract and consume resources at an ever-increasing pace. This growth-based system, designed to generate wealth and profits for individuals, is threatening the survival of all life on this planet. Climate change, I have realized, is only one symptom of the real threat, which is ecological overshoot. “
How this Shinnecock Nation preschool is creating a more diverse energy future
Even if it just starts with a preschool, the energy choice that Shinnecock Nation now has allows them to define a more diverse energy future.
Native youth center, rebounding from double whammy
These practices of relational and cultural connections, while missed, may also be the very reasons MIGIZI can play a unique role in mitigating some of the negative impacts of the coronavirus in the community.
Helping Indigenous Peoples Stay on Their Land
We need more information about where organizations are having success in helping with the central goal – preserving cultures so that they can evolve in the way they wish, so that families will not lose their young to the cities, and watch the incursions of exploitation fill the gaps.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 26 Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is Vice President of Policy & Strategy for Data for Progress and Narrative Change Director for the Natural History Museum. Julian provides his insight on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Camp Mni Luzahan launches community Covid-19 testing
Keeping the patrol, the camp, the meals, the sobriety, and the testing in the hands of Native community members is “innovative and grassrootsy,” but at the same time it’s all part of the promise forebearers made to keep the peace when they signed the treaties, Angel notes.
Business-as-Usual Porn – or, We Need to Talk about Collapse
I think we need to talk openly and calmly about the possibility of societal or civilizational collapse arising from humanity’s present predicaments.
