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Indigenous people everywhere face serious human rights abuses and cultural genocide through forced relocations, loss of land rights, exposure to environmental hazards, violence, discrimination, denial of basic services (such as access to education, housing, clean water, and healthy food), and the forced separation of children and families. Both the human and political rights of Indigenous peoples are dismissed and attacked by the dominant colonialist cultures and governments around them. Despite this, Indigenous peoples are often on the forefront of environmental and human rights protests around the world. The struggle for Indigenous rights is a struggle for human rights and for the preservation of human knowledge and generational relationships with the environment.

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Interview with Grandma Aggie from the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers

The eldest living member of her tribe, the Takelma Indians of southwest Oregon, Agnes Baker-Pilgrim is a world-renowned spiritual leader, spokesperson and member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, and keeper of the Sacred Salmon Ceremony—a tradition that she revived...

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This Mexican Medicine Woman Hipped America to Magic Mushrooms, with the Help of a Bank Executive

María Sabina was well-respected in the village as a healer and shaman. She’d been consuming psilocybin mushrooms regularly since she was seven years old, and had performed the velada mushroom ceremony for over 30 years before Wasson arrived.

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The Fight Against Minnesota’s Line 3 Pipeline: Bill McKibben and Winona LaDuke in Conversation

How LaDuke’s seven-year battle to stop a tar-sands pipeline intersects with McKibben’s campaign to stop JPMorgan Chase from funding fossil fuels

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Louise Erdrich on Her Fiction: “I’m Writing Out of the Mixture of Cultures”

Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans

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The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice

Manoomin (“wild rice”) now has legal rights. At the close of 2018, the White Earth band of Ojibwe passed a law formally recognizing the Rights of Manoomin.

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Ayahuasca Is Changing Global Environmental Consciousness

Interview with US scientist Dennis McKenna on powerful Amazon hallucinogen, plant intelligence, and environmental crises.

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Stopping Trump’s Last Pipeline Will Take All of Us

A report from occupied Palisade, where Water Protectors confront a dying, but still deadly, energy behemoth.

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Tribes Revive Traditional Hemp Economies

Tribes have the potential to revolutionize the industry. We have the land—we just need a bit of time, technology, and finances

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5 Places to View Pre-Colonial America

The ancient history of this country is often overlooked. Here are landmarks significant to Indigenous people that were renamed by white settlers.

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Thanksgiving Is Time for Reparations

"Though lives cannot be brought back, the only compensation for land is land." - Winona LaDuke

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