Showcasing Tribal Food Sovereignty Scholars
First Nations’ Tribal Food Systems Research Fellowship is amplifying the voices of tribal food sovereignty scholars by supporting their research and publication efforts. In partnership with the Journa...
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Mooretown Rancheria Leads with Tribal Expertise
Protecting the Climate, Healing the Environment The Natural Resources Department of the Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is ideally positioned to ensure that climate resiliency effor...
New Films Spotlight Conservation and Traditional Knowledge
Across the country, Native communities are cultivating traditional knowledge and experience to steward Native resources and lands in ways that are creating long-term benefits for the environment, soci...
Strong Communities, Bright Futures Built on Indigenous Knowledge
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows Perpetuate Native Lifeways and Ingenuity There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, along with 400 more that are not federally recognized. Tribe...
Building Healthy Native Food Systems at First Nations’ 2024 Food Sovereignty Summit
Held in partnership with Tahoma Peak Solutions, First Nations’ 2024 Food Sovereignty Summit hosted in Suquamish, Washington, centered Native approaches to sustaining Native food systems, caring for la...
Honoring Tewa Tradition and Supporting Native Artists
The Poeh Cultural Center in Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico, is a gathering space for preserving Tewa Pueblo culture. As First Nations’ Cultural Treasures Initiative (CTI) community partner, the Poeh pre...
The Art of Preserving Native Culture
An artist from the Okanogan Basketweavers Association, a First Nations community partner, is hard at work. Photo by Jack George. First Nations has long recognized that traditional art is woven into th...
The Business of Cultural Foodways
How a First Nations Apprenticeship Network is Advancing Native Entrepreneurs Across Indian Country Alexandera Houchin, a beginning farmer, tends to her one-quarter-acre organic farm in her tribe’s com...
The Kwiyagat Community Academy’s Plan to Grow More Ute Language Teachers
Tina King Washington had more than enough good reasons for starting the Kwiyagat Community Academy on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. “I knew my tribe needed a school because our kids were not doing...
The Modoc Nation Swings for the Fences to Create Safe Passage for Migratory Deer
In the far northeast corner of California, in Siskiyou and Modoc Counties, there was quite a mess to clean up. More than 150 years of intensive grazing on this drought-stricken part of the Modoc Natio...
Apache Stronghold v. United States: The Ongoing Battle to Save a Sacred Apache Site
The copper mine looms over the Apache people at ceremony on Oak Flat with the circle of protective trucks. It has been a long journey for Apache Stronghold. A journey stretching out over two decades t...
A 100-Year-Old Penobscot Veteran Returns Yearly to the Beaches of Normandy to Commemorate D-Day
On June 6, 2024, the world marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a pivotal day in history that turned the tide of WWII in favor of the United States and its allies in their fight to liberate France an...