Indigenous Leadership

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens severed prime habitat for salmon and steelhead. Now, for the first time in over forty years, local tribes have successfully restored river connectivity.

By: Cowlitz Indian Tribe

When language meets landscape, it’s more than relationship. It’s kinship.

By: CMarie Fuhrman

As Native students seek careers in conservation and Indigenous-led stewardship, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission has partnered with University of Washington to create a solution.

By: Nicholas Triolo

Despite the ongoing, decades-long debate on whether to bring grizzly bears back to California, tribes are taking the lead, and it’s changing the discourse.

By: Cameron Fenton

Why acknowledging the land itself — along with the people whose language, culture, and religion were born of it — is rarely acknowledged. 

By: CMarie Fuhrman

How the Suquamish Tribe is finding ways to harvest, educate, and prepare for ongoing plant cycle alternations due to climate change.

By: Lyric Aquino, Underscore Native News + Report for America

Six First Nations, BC and Canada will preserve and steward a large chunk of the Central Coast. That means no pipelines.

By: Michelle Gamage

The app was created by and for Coeur d’Alene Tribal members that features a user-friendly interface to make learning easy for everyone, from children to elders.

By: Lyric Aquino, Underscore Native News + Report for America

How a lake in British Columbia, Canada, once drained for settlement, is being considered for reflooding as an act of transboundary restoration by First Nations.

By: Cameron Fenton

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

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