Indigenous Americans

We Can Have Better Arguments Around Climate Change

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Kali Fajardo-Anstine