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In 2013, California launched its cap-and-trade program, a carbon credit market that allows companies and governments to engage with offset projects that incentivize investments in planting trees, preserving forests, or even supporting solar farms. The idea is to reduce or offset greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing credits for nature-based projects. ... read full post
The Progress Party^[Fremskrittspartiet is the furthest right party in Norway's parliament, and the second biggest party in Norway as of the election of September 8, 2025.] believes it is unclear whether the Sámi people of Norway are actually covered by the UN convention on indigenous^[The term for "indigenous" used throughout this article is urfolk, cf. First Nations. Another term used in Norwegian is innfødt, and I believe this term is gradually overtaking urfolk.] rights, and is now asking the Norwegian parliament^[Also called the Storting.] to investigate the matter. ... read full post
On Friday, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) pushed back on the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) decision to retain the Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890. This decision announced on Thursday disregards the well-documented truth of a brutal, unprovoked massacre carried out by the 7th Cavalry against the Lakota people—and ignores the moral obligation to confront past injustices with integrity. ... read full post
A trio of First Nations researchers is blending traditional knowledge and science to map whale migration and advocate for improved conservation. ... read full post
A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds: ecocide. ... read full post
One of the foundational stories in American history is that of Lewis and Clark's two-year expedition that began in 1805, from Missouri to the Oregon coast and back, and the Native American teenager who accompanied them, named Sacagawea. ... read full post
Deadly Israeli attacks continued to target Palestinian civilians on 24 September as Tel Aviv’s forces pushed deeper into Gaza City as part of a new operation to force the resistance into submission. ... read full post
‘Wáahlaal Gíidaak, who is Indigenous Haida, Tlingit, and Ahtna Athabascan, grew up on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska that was home to about 6,000 people. ... read full post
Outside a botanical garden gift shop on the northern shore of the most remote place on earth, rests a reproduction of an ancient board game, chiseled into a block of black stone, its 88 rocks and coral bits resting in 88 divots as if waiting for you to play. A plaque with a cursory description of the game offers a declaration that is equal parts humblebrag and dungeon-master riddle: ... read full post
Underwater noise is a serious threat to endangered southern resident killer whales, as shipping traffic intensifies through some of the busiest waters off “Vancouver Island.” ... read full post
Two Indigenous women say the growing spread of residential school denialism is the reason they a wrote a book on the subject.
Decolonization and Me was released by Phyllis Webstad, who started Orange Shirt Day, and Métis scholar Kristy McLeod.
The book was recently released in Winnipeg.
SIPAYIK, Maine — On the Sipayik peninsula in Maine, Passamaquoddy tribal members are surrounded on three sides by water, and on all sides by reminders of their vulnerability to a changing climate. ... read full post
The president of B.C.'s Coastal First Nations alliance was unequivocal when asked if there is any possibility the group would consent to the federal government lifting the oil tanker ban in the area to allow a pipeline to be built from Alberta. ... read full post
Accompanied by a 10,000-year-old shapeshifter and friend known as Sabe, Biidaaban sets out on a mission to reclaim the ceremonial harvesting of sap from maple trees in an unwelcoming suburban neighborhood in Ontario.
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at American Indian boarding school and his later involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and more. “We still have to live under that, that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.” ... read full post