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The Colorado River flows near Parker, Ariz. The Colorado River Indian Tribes want to give the river the same legal rights as a person, taking millennia of cultural values and putting them into law. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Resolution Copper’s proposed mine near the site of Oak Flat in Arizona will eventually create a giant sinkhole on land sacred to the Western Apache people. Credit: Elias Butler

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land

By Wyatt Myskow

The Wind River Indian Reservation is home to the Northern Arapaho and the Eastern Shoshone tribes. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Tribal Solar Projects Meet Different Fates in Wyoming After Trump Administration Kills Funding

By Jake Bolster

Waorani people protest against the oil tenders opened by the Ecuadorian Government on May 13 in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports

By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous

Betty Osceola, a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, walks in the Everglades a few yards from the front entrance to Alligator Alcatraz on July 10. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

To Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the Lands Around Alligator Alcatraz Are Sacred, Pythons and All

By Amy Green

Outside the town of Mammoth, Ariz., is the site of a mesquite forest owned by the mining company Resolution Copper. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site, and the Forest Protected to Mitigate The Damage

By Wyatt Myskow

Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Elim, Alaska is perched above Norton Bay, an inlet of the Bering Sea. Credit: Max Graham/Northern Journal

Canadian Company Exits Contentious Uranium Mining Project in Western Alaska

By Max Graham, Northern Journal

Allyson Gray, of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, strolls the land called Dragon Run, swampy land that was inhabited by indigenous groups who fled persecution in the early days of American colonialism on Aug. 23, 2024, near Center Cross, Va. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Chesapeake Bay Program Says No to Full Membership for Virginia Tribal Nations—for Now

By Aman Azhar

Ayshka Najib (second from right), a climate activist based in the United Arab Emirates, protests at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, UAE, in 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Ayshka Najib

The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

By Katie Surma

Red Feather staff (from left) Duane Tsinigine, Tavanne Sousa and Tyler Puente stand next to a heat pump installed with the nonprofit’s help at a home on the Hopi Reservation. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

EPA Grants Were Set to Address Health Risks on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations, Until the Trump Administration Cut Them

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of Oak Flat, a site sacred to the Western Apache, near Superior, Ariz. Credit: EcoFlight

US District Court Ruling Keeps Fight Against Mining of Site Sacred to Western Apache Alive

By Wyatt Myskow

A helicopter overflies the area of a collapsed dam as rescue workers search for victims near the town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil on Jan. 25, 2019. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Rich Countries’ Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

By Katie Surma

George Walley, a Noongar elder, sits at the edge of an Alcoa mine site near Jarrahdale in Western Australia on March 24. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

How Pittsburgh’s Alcoa Is Undermining a Rare Forest To Fuel Its Global Aluminum Empire

By Jamie Wiggan and Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource

Human rights attorney Alejandra Gonza (right) stands with Brenda Díaz Valencia, who is holding a photo of her father, Antonio Díaz Valencia, and his colleague Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 3, 2024. The two men disappeared after criticizing mining practices in Mexico. Credit: Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images

Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

By Katie Surma

An abandoned oil well sits on a hillside on Tribal land near Farmington, N.M. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

Many on Navajo Nation Blindsided by Hydrogen Pipeline Change

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

A pipeline marker is seen at the site of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 near the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Credit: Tony Webster/CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands

By Carrie Klein

Silvana Nihua, a member of the Kiwaro community and former OWAP president, sits near a sacred waterfall in a Waorani community's territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Credit: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma

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