State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous ...

The day after the OMB directive, the EPA complied, cutting off the disbursement of federal funds for all of its programs.

To protect our sacred lands and, at minimum, hold the line on what tribes have fought for (and won), there must be a bold ...

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

The Dance to the Top of the Palm Tree, Bright Ntimba, Part I. 2021, oil on linen, 45 x 80 inches. Credit: Papay Solomon ...

FIRE IS A NATURAL PART of Western ecosystems, and many forest species crave its disturbance and the resulting regeneration. But starting in the mid-to-late 1800s, the federal government banished ...

North Dakota sued the Interior Department at least five times under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency. During Doug Burgum’s two terms as North Dakota governor, the state ...

This article appeared in the February 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Unapologetically Indigenous.” ...