Another good story from this month's High Country News. www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

I am so glad this reporting exists, I've seen an increase in boilerplate language in environmental reports and it shows a real disregard for the resources. Also have a lot I could say about the company's worker safety practices.

Thank you CCN for recognizing our @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org investigation into how solar developers use for-profit archeologists to harm Indigenous cultures! 🏆🪶 Read the story here: www.hcn.org/issues/56-2/...

How post-9/11 policy and immigration enforcement reshaped meatpacking - and the West. This @highcountrynews.org & @thefern.org investigation digs into how meatpacking's increasing reliance on refugee labor created an escalating crisis for the industry - and the small towns where plants are based.

Thank you @btoastie.bsky.social & @highcountrynews.org for this article on the food sovereignty lab! This has been the best, most special year for me as the chef-in-residence. The community forming around this hub, the way they show up for each other, hardworking, so bright, yôotva iimníhva💚

Whoah nice one @highcountrynews.org

Only appropriate — no publication has ever covered the rivers that run through our country better than @highcountrynews.org.

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Our members flyered the @ire.org gala to rally support for a fair contract with a transparent disciplinary process and protections against journalists being replaced by AI. You can show your support here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

The California State University system now has its first Indigenous food sovereignty lab. www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

RIP GOAT Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.

"The community wanted a food sovereignty lab. But we didn’t know what that was.” My latest for @highcountrynews.org

"The Trump administration’s aggressive language has spooked Indigenous Greenlanders in particular, who make up 90 percent of the population... 'They are looking at us as people that you just can throw out.'”

Monsanto had to pay the state of Oregon ~$700m for being toxic polluters. Now, former NPS director Chuck Sams (Cayuse & Walla Walla) is joining the team that decides how to spend it. www.klcc.org/2025-06-01/c...

Amid a nationwide reckoning over police use of force, the BIA has evaded scrutiny of its policies. Native Americans face the highest risk of deadly police violence in the US. The data is likely an undercount. BIA killings are rarely reported publicly. www.investigatewest.org/investigatew...

One of the most-discussed issues at this year's UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was consent. The US does not recognize Indigenous peoples’ right to consent to decisions that impact them. But global leaders are sharing strategies.

The Metals Company will no longer apply for a mining license from the International Seabed Authority in June as previously planned now that it's seeking US approval to mine the seabed in ISA-controlled waters, CEO Gerard Barron said on an earnings call today.

“The hand-seeding exceeded my wildest expectations." - Yurok Fisheries Department Senior Riparian Ecologist Joshua Chenoweth @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91333804/the...

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

"Heartney’s pro-Trump statement felt abrupt and out of place to attendees. It echoed messaging from right-wing think tanks, which use economic development, job creation and even so-called protection as Trojan horses for resource extraction." By @btoastie.bsky.social

#ICYMI: The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is seeing lower attendance due to visa delays and safety concerns for international delegates. #UNPFII

Big news! For the fourth year in a row, High Country News is teaming up with Indigenous-led and allied newsrooms to cover the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) — the largest global gathering of Indigenous leaders and advocates. buff.ly/Rb7xMEd

Really insightful article by @btoastie.bsky.social for @highcountrynews.org. One thing sticking with me is the way Indigenous women talk about themselves, compared with non-Natives — at a discussion about the rights of Indigenous women. (Obvious but still important.) www.hcn.org/articles/pro...

This week I was at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The first day, this happened: www.hcn.org/articles/pro...

"Edward Heartney... used his time to tout President Donald Trump as a protector of Indigenous women...No one clapped. You could hear a pin drop." Awesome reporting from the United Nations by @btoastie.bsky.social for @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/articles/pro...

VIDEO: Brazil's Indigenous Games open amid political struggle Indigenous communities from all over Brazil gather in the Marajai community, deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, to celebrate the third edition of the Alvaraes Indigenous Intercultural Games and Dances

Appreciate the pātai. Te Pāti Māori won’t let Aotearoa import UK/US-style hate. We reject attacks on trans, non-binary and takatāpui whānau. That’s not who we are. Our Te Tiriti commitment means protecting mana, inclusion, and whānau safety. Whakapapa over wedges. Manaakitanga over fear. Always.

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This is why storytelling is so important in many nonwestern and precolonial European cultures.

I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @salonnewsroom.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Staff Writer, Science & Health, to produce evidence-based reporting on the self-care and wellness industries, both inside and outside the medical establishment and public health bureaucracies. www.journalismjobs.com/1690020-seni...

Hello #NativesBlueSky… my students are asking for a list of your favorite Indigenous STEM books… so I’m trying to crowd source to add to my own list. I am not sure how many are out here, but I thought I’d ask! I’ll compile the list and share when done!

Bertha (née Parker) Pallen (1907-1978) Archeologist ~ (Abenaki/Seneca). Photo ca. 1930s. ‘Bertha is considered the first Native American woman archaeologist and ethnologist in the United States. She was known as “Birdie” to many of her colleagues.’ © Smithsonian Collections

Every hatched egg is hope for the iconic condor, which is the continent's largest land-based bird and is important in ceremony, mythology, and of course its ecosystem.

Indigenous Australian cultures and communities will likely suffer for this.

Thank you to my editor @shaun505.bsky.social who didn't bat an eyelash when I filed a 2k-word draft though the assigned word count was 1k. In my defense, who doesn't want to read about the funniest, sweetest, smartest, and most adorable mules and horses? My latest for @highcountrynews.bsky.social:

If Christians knew this, the research says, they’d be more likely to see their church’s values as consistent with climate action. They'd also be less likely to see their church’s values as consistent with voting for a candidate opposed to climate action.

If renewable energy development continues along its colonial path, it could wreck the deep sea floor and further entrench Pacific cultures in the destructive spiral of capital. The Internat'l Seabed Authority could stop it. ✍️ @ahofschneider.bsky.social r.bsky.social 
 grist.org/energy/deep-...

I’ve only colored this first page of notes from Leah Sottile and Toastie Oaster’s great conversation about Sottile’s book Blazing Eye Sees All, but CSPAN taped the whole thing so, eventually…

GET THIS BOOK. Buy if you can, borrow from the library is also a good option :)

Looking at RFK's cuts to our health system and wondering how we got here? Boy do I have a book for you:

How to leak to a journalist! featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social

There's no 100% safe way to provide information to a reporter, but the risks are generally manageable. Your employer's interest, of course, is in convincing you otherwise.

Americans can look to places like Guatemala and Serbia, where street protests by students, peasants and Indigenous ppl — as well as politicians working the levers of opposition within government — have successfully stopped autocrats from eroding democracy. More strategies here. 👇

Almost exactly one year into the job, Montana’s Missing Indigenous Persons coordinator has left the post. While the DOJ spokesperson said the task force will continue to meet while the position is open, staffing issues have stalled the group’s work in the past. #MMIW #MMIP #mtnews

Journalism is the intelligence arm of the people. Personally, I think news should be funded and freely accessible to all. But at the moment, subscribing to critical news sources is an important way to bolster your first amendment right to a free press:

I am constantly amazed that people self-identify as a genocide-beneficiary