Identity Is A Major Factor In Our Indigenous Affairs Reporting
Co-published with the Texas Observer. Two stories this week from Texas Observer's Indigenous Affairs desk dive into the thorny issue of belonging. Here’s why.
Indigenous Identity at the Heart of San Antonio City Council Race
Co-published with the Texas Observer. For years, candidate Marie Crabb has claimed to be Mescalero Apache. Those claims cannot be verified.
Tribal Territories Have the Right to Protect Their People Against the Pandemic
Co-published with The Nation. South Dakota has resisted shutting down in the face of Covid-19. The Cheyenne River Reservation is taking matters into its own hands.
COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas
Co-published with the Texas Observer. While coronavirus rates remain high, officials have taken unprecedented actions not found anywhere else in the state.
Bringing the Dead Home
Co-published with the Texas Observer. Thirty years after Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, only a fraction of human remains held by Texas’ museums and universities have been returned.
Understanding the Voting Challenges Facing Native Americans
Co-published with Matter of Fact. Native Americans makeup 6 percent of Arizona’s eligible voters and could be a powerful voting bloc. But that’s only if they can get to the polls.
F is for Fake
Co-published with the Texas Observer and The Nation. How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.
The Anti-Indigenous Handbook
Co-published with the Texas Observer. Across the globe, anti-Indigenous organizations work to undermine the collective rights of Indigenous peoples. This collection of reports reveals some of the most common attacks Indigenous communities face today.
A Lesson in Communal Parenting from Native American Culture
Co-published with Critical Frequency and Reasonable Volume. In this episode, a public health researcher walks us through how social workers have pathologized Indigenous family structures and much more.
Patrolling Minneapolis’s Native American History
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. Despite their relatively small numbers, Native organizers in Minneapolis are central to the activist fabric of the city and the entire nation.
EHRP Contributor Jenni Monet Wins Mirror Award
Congratulations to our contributor Jenni Monet for winning a Mirror Award for her EHRP-supported piece about indigenous journalism in the Columbia Journalism Review!
California’s Forage Wars
Co-published with High Country News and Roads & Kingdoms. In Mendocino County, California, these “guerilla gatherers” risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive.