Hey. Right now I work for an awesome land back initiative and we would love your support for Buffalo rematriation. 🦬🎄💜

My first visit to Boston to moderate a discussion about Joseph Lee's new book "Nothing More of This Land". It's about community, power, and Indigenous Identity and I cannot reccomend it enough. lnkd.in/e8tgwqKC Thanks to the Museum of Science for flying me out for this wonderful event.

We are the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Our goal is to restore traditional connections with Buffalo by putting them back on the land as wildlife. 🦬 #rematriation #wildlife #windriverreservation

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock. The vote indicates a growing interest to both restore buffalo on the landscape and challenge the relationship between animal and product. The latest from @siisiiko.bsky.social. grist.org/indigenous/w...

I was selected to attend the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England this last week. The Climate Desk at the Associated Press gave story telling workshops and I learned a lot from Indigenous journalists from around the world. 📷 Pauly Denetclaw 🇬🇧

At a climate conference at Oxford in the UK with the Associated Press.

Latest:

How Trump’s funding freeze for Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law. According to Indigenous legal experts, the freeze erodes the little trust Indian country has in the federal government. grist.org/indigenous/h... #Food #Indigenous #Trump #DOGE #Tribes

How the Klamath Dams Came Down. Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story. grist.org/project/indi... #Dams #Salmon #Oregon #California #OR #CA

Joseph and I worked on this one together! Check it out.

What if rivers had an inherent right to be protected from pollution, regardless of its utility to humans? This is the idea that drives the “rights of nature” movement grist.org/equity/in-ca...

ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area: grist.org/accountabili...

San Francisco has been so wonderful. Seeing elephant seal pups might have been the best part. 🦭🍼

A new report "highlights human rights violations connected to Sámi lands being treated like sacrifice zones for global climate goals and green financial interests." Uprooter @siisiiko.bsky.social for @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/global-indig...

Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land. grist.org/justice/biso... Written by @stopitkatie.bsky.social . #Bison #Rewild #Prison #Incarceration #Climate

Thanks @longreads.com ✨️

In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback. Tourism, climate goals, and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and pork ramen. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Japan #Veganism #PlantBased #ClimateAction #Travel #Tourism #Food

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Don't despair! Follow all the excellent climate change reporters here at Grist.

The Northern Arapaho on the Wind River Reservation just released a letter addressing concern over the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Wyoming.

My latest on a federal land transfer in Wyoming that the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone oppose. Protesters will be in Cheyenne on Trump's inaguration day to continue voicing oppostion. #wyoming #windriverreservation grist.org/indigenous/i...

Wiped Off the Map A federal clerk’s error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state. The tribe wants it back. grist.org/indigenous/s... #YakamaNation #Yakama #Washington #WA

My guy. You are the "out-of-state interest groups".

Today, a group of 20 protests a bill that would transfer a hydroelectric powerplant from federal hands to a local irrigation district without consultation from tribes even though it's within the bounds of the Wind River Reservation. Lander, Wyoming

Do you like Indigenous metal? Take a gander at my lastest from @gristnews.bsky.social! "Instead of giving into despair, metal provides a productive way to engage with the state of the world." Grist fellow Sachi Kitajima Mulkey did the beautiful art work! grist.org/arts-culture...

Grist's 2024 climate phrase of the year is... From "alert fatigue" to "carbon cowboys," these 10 terms captured the spirit of the hottest year yet: grist.org/culture/aler...

A new Global Witness report shows the cost of the "green transition" for Indigneous communities in the Philippines.

when they find out their great great memmanaw and peepappawpaw weren't cherokee princesses

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New essay just dropped: “This one day a year doesn’t suffice for the gratitude and appreciation that we have for our plant, animal, water, and land relatives. Our way of life is a thanks giving, every day.” @gristnews.bsky.social grist.org/looking-forw...

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

The way I actually laughed at the local morning news coverage banter has aged me 20 years. 😂

New #JWST image just dropped 🔭🐡🧪

Want some hopeful Indigenous climate news? Muscogee elders are preserving a peach in Oklahoma with deep cultural significance. My latest from Grist.

Someone just asked me for writing tips, and my gut level response was "all writing advice is fake, just read books you like and write as much as you can and eventually something will be good" but then I thought about it and I had some actual advice! 1. Read! Your work! Out loud!

My morning walk ✨️❄️🍂

I walk the Little Wind River every morning with my dog. Highly recommended. Clears the mind and reminds you what you are fighting for.

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Tous Blue Sky! I am the Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist Magazine, and I cover climate change and tribal issues. I'm based in rural Wyoming (redundant I know 😋). I've written about federal public land policy, Indigenous issues at the United Nations, and rez dogs. grist.org/indigenous/r...

Follow my colleagues, they're very nice and smart bsky.app/starter-pack...

I got to go to Japan this year, and since then, I've grown hundreds of feet tall and never left Tokyo.

I'm having flashbacks to 2016 and the fire that I felt. The urge to try and help pushed me to Standing Rock, then into journalism. I'd like to get back to her.