Lakota grandmothers fight man camps amid pandemic

Keystone XL Pipeline construction proceeds, bringing thousands of workers — and threat of Covid-19 — to reservation

The threat “causes eerie memories for us with the infected smallpox blankets that were distributed to tribes intentionally in the 1800s,” said Faith Spotted Eagle, a member of the Brave Heart Society and Yankton Sioux Tribe. “It is absolutely similar, whereby we lost thousands of people in our tribes along the Missouri River.”

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On Funding, Fossil Fuels and Femicide

Rachel Heaton and Roxanne White on the connections between climate change, trafficking and violence against indigenous women

Today in honor of Climate Week we share a powerful interview by Ayana Young, founder of the innovative For The Wild podcast. As Standing Rock and the ongoing Water Protectors movement across the continent have made clear, the devastating impacts of the fossil fuel industry fall disproportionately on Native people. And as indigenous leaders Rachel […]

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