A $3.7M grant to the Native American Youth and Family Center will replace baseball fields with food gardens and cultural sites.
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When Food is Much More than a Commodity
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians leverages government-issued commodities to build a resilient food system that nourishes tribal members. It’s paying off.
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Want to Protect your Health? Start by Protecting Indigenous Land
Protecting Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon could prevent millions of respiratory diseases and billions in healthcare costs.
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How Acorns Carry Cultural Knowledge
An Indigenous writer reflects on learning to make acorns into San-chvn-tuu-’i’ or ‘juice of the acorn,’ a hot porridge and staple food.
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Breaking the Law to Uphold it
Legal challenges protect tribal rights to traditional fishing, hunting and gathering.
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Root Down: At Warm Springs, a New Generation Leads the Feast
As the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs holds traditional first foods feasts in its ceremonial longhouses for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, tribal youth have stepped up to carry the knowledge of the many elders who passed during the pandemic.
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How Indigenous Nations Are Rebuilding Food Systems
Local food, grounded in cultural and spiritual values, forms the basis for a growing food sovereignty movement.
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Flexing Our Sovereignty: An Introduction to Underscore’s Food Sovereignty Project
Series Co-Manager Nicole Charley introduces a series of stories about traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices that honor and strengthen the relationship to the plants and animals that sustain all of us.
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Vatican Denounces ‘International Law of Colonization’
The Vatican issued a statement rejecting a series of declarations by popes in the 15th Century that formed a legal and political justification for colonization and are still relevant in federal law today.
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Johnson v. M’Intosh: 200 Years of Legal Misery for Native People
The landmark 1823 Supreme Court case enshrined the Doctrine of Discovery in U.S. law, setting a precedent that has undermined tribal sovereignty ever since.