Amnesty International has given the distinction — extended to people incarcerated for their politics, religion, ethnicity or other personal or protected status — to Chief Dsta'hyl, a Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief arrested for his opposition to the Coastal Gaslink pipeline.

A lack of infrastructure, complications from the pandemic and extreme weather events are conspiring to put unhoused pets on U.S. Indigenous reserves in increasing danger.

With decades of experience, Reno Red Cloud knows more than anyone about water on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. As climate change makes fire season on the reservation more dangerous, he sees a growing need for water to fight those fires.

That’s according to Kimberly Yazzie, a Diné researcher in ecology at Stanford University, who has seen how Indigenous communities have been harmed in the race to establish wind, solar, and mining projects.

To fight climate change, the world needs copper. The third largest deposit on the planet is in Arizona, a site the San Carlos Apache say is “like Mount Sinai to us.”