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Indigenous Innovation

How a BC Indigenous Community Is Creating a Micro-economy Through Wellness: It all starts with the land

Source: https://nuvomagazine.com/culture/nawalakw Writer Allie Turner In 2005 Sherry Moon blockaded a road with her brothers, great aunt, and one of their chiefs to prevent a logging company from deforesting sacred area…Continue readingHow a BC Indigenous Community Is Creating a Micro-economy Through Wellness: It all starts with the land

The Unseen

Invisibility as an Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

Andy Krackov & Sarah MarikosFebruary 18, 2021 Source: https://nightingaledvs.com/asterisk-nation-one-tribes-challenge-to-find-data-about-its-population/ The Yurok Tribe in far northern California needs to address a condition plaguing numerous rural communities in the United States: addiction and substance…Continue readingInvisibility as an Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

One Heart

Mystery of why more than 2,000 gray whales have died along US coast since the 1980s may have been SOLVED – and the reason is haunting

By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 12:26 EDT, 18 October 2023 | UPDATED: 16:37 EDT, 18 October 2023 (Image Credits in Caption & Description. Those below are from original article, sourced from…Continue readingMystery of why more than 2,000 gray whales have died along US coast since the 1980s may have been SOLVED – and the reason is haunting

Communal Healing One Heart

Descendants of two government-sanctioned atrocities gather in Colorado, bond over “shared identity”

Source: https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/23/amache-camp-sand-creek-massacre/ Relatives of Japanese Americans incarcerated in Amache find common threads with descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre — which occurred just 46 miles away — during annual pilgrimageKevin…Continue readingDescendants of two government-sanctioned atrocities gather in Colorado, bond over “shared identity”

One Heart

Nation of Hawai’i and Yurok Tribe Sign Historic Peace and Friendship Treaty

Source: https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/nation-of-hawai-i-and-yurok-tribe-sign-historic-peace-and-friendship-treaty BY DARREN THOMPSON  OCTOBER 17, 2023 The Nation of Hawai’i and the Yurok Tribe announced on Monday a historic ratification of a Peace and Friendship Treaty between the two sovereign…Continue readingNation of Hawai’i and Yurok Tribe Sign Historic Peace and Friendship Treaty