Stephanie Woodard

In addition to casting critical votes, Natives are winning local, state, and national offices.

“I want our kids to dare, to imagine and want the best.”

“No way would Black or Brown people be treated that way had they attacked a symbol of our democracy.”

Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic.

“Gardens represent resiliency, strength, wellness, culture.”

A non-Native journalist encounters a tribal-managed forest and an indigenous garden. “I had no idea how to use the English language to describe what I was seeing.”

The drama and injustice on display at Standing Rock have taught a new generation of observers what Native Americans already know: Even today theirs is a brutal fight to survive.

People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. Back home, each tribe faces its own version of the “black snake” and a centuries-old struggle to survive.