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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Stench of Death

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 14, 2021October 19, 2022

On Canada’s Highway of Tears.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Survivor

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 27, 2021October 19, 2022

“The discovery of hundreds of Indigenous children’s remains in the spring was particularly hard for me—because I knew I could have been one of them. How I made it through Canada’s residential school system.”

Posted inNonfiction

All Flourishing Is Mutual

by Carolyn Wells April 29, 2021October 14, 2022

“My favorite moment came in the years when my ǧáǧṃ́p would nod to himself and make the official pronouncement: “It’s going to be a good year for salmon.” In that moment, we felt like little harbingers of hope.”

Posted inQuotes

Pretty and Dumb? Tell It to the Avocado

by Carolyn Wells July 6, 2020October 17, 2022

New arrivals didn’t hand Natives the keys to the modern world — but took the tools that built its foundations.

Posted inStory

‘Women Created Our Worlds:’ Native Art Reclaims Its Power

by Soraya Roberts June 20, 2019February 24, 2023

There’s a direct line from missing and murdered indigenous women to the repression of Native women’s contributions to art and culture, but those long-silenced voices are now making themselves heard.

Posted inArts & Culture, education, Nonfiction, Quotes

It’s Not a Literary Renaissance When You’ve Been Telling Stories Since the Dawn of Time

by Aaron Gilbreath March 5, 2018October 19, 2022

A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Story, Unapologetic Women

The Thing about Women from the River Is That Our Currents Are Endless

by Aaron Gilbreath February 6, 2018February 22, 2023

Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Telescope That Sees into the Heart of Hawaii

by Aaron Gilbreath February 21, 2017October 19, 2022

Trevor Quirk reports on how native Hawaiians protested the construction of a telescope on spiritual grounds — the presence of which cuts to the very question of who gets to decide what happens on Hawaiian soil — and who the soil belongs to.

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