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Alternative Currencies Are Bigger Than Bitcoin: How They鈥檙e Building Prosperity From London to Kenya

The Brixton Pound, Koru Kenya, and Mazacoin are all attempting to achieve a common goal: empowering people in a monetarily unequal world, from the bottom up.

Ra煤l Carrillo | Mar 13, 2015

Deep in the Amazon, a Tiny Tribe Is Beating Big Oil

The people of Sarayaku are a leading force in 21st century indigenous resistance, engaging the western world politically, legally, and philosophically.

David Goodman | Feb 13, 2015

Activism | Mental health

These Gorgeous Photographs Show Indigenous Americans Without the Stereotypes

Three years ago, Matika Wilbur set out on an ambitious undertaking: a vast road trip across America to photograph members of all 562 of America鈥檚 federally-recognized tribes.

Natasha Donovan | Jan 30, 2015

Mental health

Restorative Justice at Work: How This Indigenous Wood Carver Is Finding Peace After a Seattle Officer Killed His Brother

Rick Williams asked for calm when protesters demanded justice for his brother, who was shot and killed by a Seattle police officer. But he realizes that "the only way you can help change the system is show them you are a human being."

Kayla Schultz | Dec 27, 2014

Indigenous activists at the People's Climate March. Photo by Allan Lissner.

An Indigenous View on #BlackLivesMatter

I was reminded over and over this week that black and indigenous communities of struggle are deeply connected through our experiences with colonialism, oppression, and white supremacy.

Leanne Simpson | Dec 6, 2014

Activism

An Alaska Native Myth Tells of a Never-Ending Blizzard鈥擭ow You Can Learn About It on Xbox

The first video game developed by an indigenous-owned company uses gaming鈥檚 immersive storytelling style to connect players with Alaska Native culture.

Leigh Finke | Nov 22, 2014

Local economies

Beating Climate Change by Retooling the Economy鈥擳he Story Begins in Navajo Country

A proposed community-owned solar project on an abandoned coal mine in Arizona illustrates how cooperative economomics make it possible to stop extracting fossil fuels鈥攚ithout leaving workers behind.

Mary Hansen | Oct 16, 2014

A Quechua woman harvests potatoes at a site more than 13

Photo Essay: Indigenous Farmers Gather in the Andes to Plan for Climate Change

These photos document a gathering of indigenous groups from China, Bhutan, and Peru. They met in the spring to discuss climate change and plan a crop exchange program.

Adam Kerby | Aug 19, 2014

Water | Climate

Guardians of the Plains: One Lakota Family’s Plan to Fend off South Dakota’s Epic Drought

Long years of drought in South Dakota have made it difficult for the soil to absorb water. A group led by indigenous women hopes to change that through a ambitious dam-building project.

Kristin Moe | Aug 6, 2014

Sustainable food and farming | Climate

Indigenous Seed Savers Gather in the Andes, Agree to Fight Climate Change with Biodiversity

As climate change makes it more difficult to practice agriculture in their ancestral homelands, indigenous communities are exchanging seeds in hopes of finding the hardiest varieties.

Erin Sagen | Jul 31, 2014

Study Finds Indigenous Land Management Highly Effective in Combating Climate Change

The study highlights the story of Brazil, where increasing indigenous rights to the rainforest helped cut carbon emissions by 3.2 billion tons.

David Kaimowitz | Jul 29, 2014

Photo Essay: First Nations Take Their Last March Through Canada’s Dystopian Tar Sands

Organizers agreed that the annual marches have helped raise awareness about the mining project. But their work is far from done.

Liana Lopez | Jul 10, 2014

These Native American Filmmakers Are Telling Their People’s Stories鈥擳heir Way

Longhouse Media helps indigenous artists step behind the camera and document their lives.

Christine St. Pierre | Jul 2, 2014

An aerial view of Kitimat and Douglas Channel

Canadian Govt Approves Pipeline Through British Columbia鈥擝ut Landmark Court Ruling May Stop It

First Nations groups say that the pipeline would disrupt their traditional seafood harvest and endanger their culture.

Dana Drugmand | Jun 28, 2014

Watch the Beautiful One-Minute Ad Asking the Washington Football Team to Change Its Name

With the owner of the team vowing "NEVER" to change its name, Native American tribes around the country launch a national campaign to do just that.

Liz Pleasant | Jun 11, 2014

Brought Together by Keystone Pipeline Fight, “Cowboys and Indians” Heal Old Wounds

As natives and ranchers work together to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, they're also learning to understand one another's history, culture, and relationship with the land.

Kristin Moe | Apr 25, 2014

Photo Essay: “Cowboys and Indians” Against Keystone XL Bring Newfound Unity to DC

On the frontlines of resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline, ranchers and tribal members join forces in a striking display of solidarity.

Kristin Moe | Apr 24, 2014

Climate

Get Intersectional! (Or, Why Your Movement Can’t Go It Alone)

"Intersectionality" has evolved from a theory of how oppression works to a notion of how people can fight it.

Kristin Moe | Apr 5, 2014

Activism

Teenage Defender of First Nations Rights Becomes Literal Superhero

Shannen Koostachin, a teenage activist who died before ever seeing the results of her work, has inspired a new hero in the DC Universe.

Leigh Finke | Mar 6, 2014

Crystal Lameman and Eriel Deranger. Photos by Ben Powless.

Climate

Meet the Ambassadors from Canada’s Indigenous Fossil Fuel Resistance

In 1885, a revolutionary leader wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In the "genocidal" wilderness of Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun.

Kristin Moe | Mar 6, 2014

Zapatista mural in San Pedro Polh贸. Photo by Dario Ribelo.

Zapatista Communities Celebrate 20 Years of Self-Government

The Zapatistas are still running their own schools and hospitals, raising new generations, and carrying on a dialogue with the outside world that has enriched both sides.

Laura Carlsen | Jan 18, 2014

The Sampson family. Photo by Rachael Stoeve.

Movement to Resist Tar Sands “Megaloads” Brings Together Northwest Tribal Members, Environmentalists

The struggle pits the tribes and their allies in the environmental movement against the General Electric subsidiary that manufactured the evaporators and the hauling company that is providing transportation for them.

Ray Stoeve | Jan 9, 2014

Nettle Tea photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Health care

How a Cup of Nettle Tea Taught Me How To Live Well and Remember the Past

I am a Muckleshoot Indian, but little of what I used to eat bore much connection with the landscape I lived in, which had fed my ancestors for many generations. When I discovered nettle tea, it was as if I were remembering what it was like to feel well.

Valerie Segrest | Dec 19, 2013

Painted building on the Navajo reservation. Photo by Aura Bogado / Colorlines.com

A Native Answer to “The Onion” (And 4 Other Great Things Happening on Reservations)

Native people are crafting some seriously creative and progressive ways of life, from same-sex marriages in states that don't allow it to the revitalization of indigenous languages.

Aura Bogado | Nov 26, 2013