Indigenous Americans

We Can Have Better Arguments Around Climate Change

A conversation with Oliviah Franke, a conversations program coordinator at the Alaska Humanities Forum.

July 25, 2022
Kenai Fjords National Park

Families Need an Infrastructure of Autonomy

If infrastructure investment is distributed without deep community input, it will fail. The Navajo Nation is a case in point.

July 7, 2021
Navajo village in Monument Valley

Fiction in a Time of Pandemic

Authors nominated for the Aspen Words Literary Prize discuss writing when the real world became stranger than fiction.

April 23, 2021
Woman in mask reading in library

Telling Stories about the Environment, and Finding Indigenous Solutions

We are the precious gems of knowledge, and caretakers of this planet we call home.

April 22, 2021
Young woman takes photos on beach

Louise Erdrich Fights for Democracy with Truth, Love, and Literature

Her novel The Night Watchman is based on the life of her extraordinary grandfather who fought against Native dispossession.

March 23, 2021

What It Means to Be Both Black and Indigenous

Thousands of people in the United States identify as Black-Indigenous or Afro-Indigenous. Meet three members of this community.

February 18, 2021

Decolonization Can’t Happen Without the Input of Indigenous Communities

True decolonization means genuinely listening to Indigenous community members and creating shifts in the power dynamics.

October 9, 2020
Indigenous youth on the steps of the Capitol

Beth Piatote Writes Native Stories for Native Readers

Piatote’s The Beadworkers is an inventive, mixed-genre debut collection that draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms.

February 18, 2020

Kali Fajardo-Anstine Shares the Untold Stories of the American West

Fajardo-Anstine’s work provides literary representation to Latinas of indigenous ancestry.

February 12, 2020
Kali Fajardo-Anstine