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 …
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 …
A Promise Unfulfilled: Water Pipeline Stops Short for Sioux Reservation
Co-published with The Guardian. After 25 years and a half-billion dollars, only half of the project’s water delivered to Pine Ridge Reservation comes from the Missouri …
The Crisis in Covering Indian Country
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. There is no beat in the American legacy press devoted solely to covering the country’s 573 tribal nations. But there should be—and …
The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation
Co-published with The New Yorker. In 2006, a group of nineteen archivists, librarians, curators, historians, and anthropologists gathered in Arizona to draft a set of best practices for dealing …
Ranching Families on Cheyenne River Reservation Face a Choice
Co-published with The Washington Post. Staying in an industry they can’t keep up with or leaving the only life they’ve known.
Standing Rock’s Pipeline Fight Brought Hope, Then More Misery
Co-published with InsideClimate News and The Huffington Post. The losing fight over the Dakota Access oil pipeline has brought into high relief the …
The “Firewater” Fairytale
Co-published with The Verge. No, Native Americans are not biologically more likely to become alcoholics. What's really to blame? Poverty, trauma, and colonialism itself.