Environment

Magic Canoe was on the ground for one of the largest ecocultural events of the year in Salmon Nation, which brought thousands of changemakers and creatives together last month in Berkeley, California. Here’s what we found.

By: Soraya Matos, Words and Photography

After years of upcycling scraps into sports gear in Oregon, Scott Hamlin chose a different route into the circular economy.

By: Josh Kozelj

Two condors from the Northern California Condor Restoration Program, run by the Yurok Tribe and Redwood National and State Parks, are believed to have laid an egg in February. If it hatches, it will be the first wild born condor in the region in more than 100 years.

By: Nika Bartoo-Smith via Underscore Native News

How one of the largest cities in Salmon Nation has restored the Duwamish River over the past three decades — community-first and one mucky step at a time.

By: Kathleen Tarrant. Photography by Kirk Hostetter.

Southeast Alaska’s Chilkat community mobilizes against the Palmer Mine.

By: Native News Online Staff

A joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. 

By: Robert Macfarlane

More ancestral lands are being returned to tribes, while other important sites remain at risk.

By: Chad Bradley and Anna V. Smith, High Country News

Without Indigenous-led environmental assessments, Tribes and First Nations are too often asked to face the consequences of extractive projects they never consented to.

By: Astra Lincoln

The seven-minute film focuses on the Southern Resident orcas whose survival, like the survival of Indigenous lifeways in the Pacific Northwest, depends on scha’enexw (the Salmon People).

By: Magic Canoe

For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi botanist and author of New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass, as she launches, “Plant, Baby, Plant.”

By: Magic Canoe

Grab a paddle. It’s time to work together.

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