Conversations on Native American Cultural Sovereignty
From an emergency declaration to a path toward net-zero, Dana Tizya-Tramm rose from personal depths to help the Vuntut Gwitchin become climate trailblazers.
“Imagine having the first community that is completely off-grid . . . We’re dropping a stone in the water and it’s creating a ripple effect.”
Rising sea levels pose “an existential threat” to the islands, a recent World Bank study said.
One of the issues not gaining as much media attention as it deserves during the current Climate Summit is the disproportionate impact of climate change on indigenous homelands.
“I don’t think it should be acceptable to any person in this world to write off a country . . . .Those who are the larger wealthier nations who have really created the problem in the first place, unfortunately, have the resources to respond and we do not”
Source: Marshall Islands pleads with world leaders to stop the 60,000-person nation from drowning
Researchers publish a website detailing deaths at the Oregon school
Source: Deaths at Chemawa
The founder of the Hastings College of the Law masterminded the killings of hundreds of Native Americans. The school, tribal members and alumni disagree about what should be done now.
Source: He Unleashed a California Massacre. Should This School Be Named for Him?
