Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations are suing social media giants for their role in the growing mental health crisis for Indigenous youth. The nations argue that using social platforms can replace human interaction and give rise to cyber-bullying, body dysmorphia & suicide. www.kosu.org/news/2025-09...

New UN Commission of Inquiry report reinforces the consensus among experts around Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. As the Israeli govt escalates its assault on Gaza City & destroys Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, states have a duty under Genocide Convention to act.

Understanding federal Indian law means better reporting under the Trump administration. We want to know what issue(s) you're most interested in. Click here: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...

My new massive piece on the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial includes never-reported details of the settlement ET offered GP. It would have thrown the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe under the bus. For @grist.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social grist.org/project/indi...

In March, a jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $666 million to the companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline. But Indigenous leaders, water protectors, activists, and court records agree: Greenpeace played a bit part in the Standing Rock movement, at best. grist.org/project/indi...

The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park. grist.org/indigenous/a...

Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction. It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️

Amid a current trade war with China, proponents for Oak Flat are scratching their heads at conflicting national security interests: “Resolution Copper is a major threat to U.S. national security given China’s significant financial influence over BHP and Rio Tinto.” grist.org/indigenous/o...

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. grist.org/indigenous/i...

Mining, including the extraction of transition minerals, leads every sector in attacks on environmental & human rights defenders. 40% of those killed were Indigenous, a reflection of the fact that more than half of all critical minerals lie in or near Indigenous land. grist.org/indigenous/i...

The Trump administration's recent cuts to USAID are putting Indigenous peoples at risk. In the Amazon, for instance, no USAID support may lead to a resurgence of the cocaine market, increased threats to Indigenous land and potentially violent challenges to human rights. grist.org/indigenous/c...

From @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social & @jessieboulard.bsky.social for @grist.org & @indiginews.bsky.social: More than 50 First Nations depend on approximately 3,700 miles of winter roads. There are no paved roads connecting these Indigenous communities to the nearest cities. 🧵 grist.org/indigenous/i...

I had no clue Pope Francis was as involved in the Indigenous world as much as he was. This story looks at his legacy and the direction of the church under Pope Leo XIV. grist.org/internationa...

The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree. By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech. Read more on Assigned Media:

You can support @indiginews.bsky.social here: indiginews.com/support-us?u...

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...

A number of people hoping to attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues have encountered visa delays or denials this year. Their difficulties entering the U.S. come as the Trump administration seeks to tighten border controls and increase deportations. grist.org/global-indig...

“The dam removal that took place last fall is one of the biggest victories for Indigenous environmental justice in North American history,” @ahofschneider.bsky.social said. “It was brought about because of the persistence of tribes and their allies.” www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...

Follow some of Indigenous reporters and outlets covering the United Nations Permanent Forum On Indigenous Issues this year. go.bsky.app/2eBZ9cy

For the fourth year running, @gristnews.bsky.social is organizing pooled coverage of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the largest global gathering of Indigenous leaders and advocates. 🧵🔗⬇️

“You hear ‘land back’, and it means a lot of different things to different people,” he said. “It’s been interesting trying to reframe some of these conversations about stewardship and land rights and treaties.” apnews.com/article/azil...

The funding freeze from the USDA is sending shockwaves throughout the nation’s agriculture sector, but their effect on tribal food initiatives raises even larger questions about what the federal government’s commitments are to Indigenous nations. grist.org/indigenous/h...

Seven Indigenous nations have withdrawn from discussions over an oil and gas pipeline in Michigan, citing federal agencies’ failure to adequately engage with tribal governments during the process. The move is expected to trigger lawsuits that could block the Line 5 project. grist.org/indigenous/w...

Forcibly removing tribal communities to get at natural resources tied to their homelands has been the rule, not the exception. More than half of the mineral deposits needed for a global energy transition are found near or beneath Indigenous lands. grist.org/indigenous/m...

The ocean that so many Indigenous peoples crossed, cared for, and survived on is on track to be mined for polymetallic nodules — potato-sized nodes that contain critical minerals necessary to power cell phones, electric vehicles, renewable energy, and weapons. grist.org/energy/deep-...

This 5 part series tells the story of a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. “This isn’t just about the Klamath River. What goes down in the Klamath Basin will be echoed throughout generations." (Co-published with @gristnews.bsky.social)

If not for the black ice that nearly killed him, Jeff Mitchell might never have helped launch one of the biggest victories for Indigenous rights in North America. Incredible longform from @ahofschneider.bsky.social & Jake Bittle. Art by @jackiefawn.bsky.social. grist.org/project/indi...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The critical financial investment comes just weeks after a report from the @aclu.org and @hrw.org called for a halt to the construction of the mine after concluding its approval violates the rights of Indigenous peoples whose ancestors are buried there. grist.org/indigenous/a...

Super solid reporting by Mary Steurer @northdakotamonitor.com on key witness testimony yesterday in the ET v. Greenpeace case. The one local outlet that's been in the court every day. northdakotamonitor.com/2025/03/11/f...

At the sixth tribunal in Toronto, a panel of nine judges heard cases against Canadian mining companies, ultimately ruling that they had violated “collective rights, Indigenous rights, and rights of nature.” grist.org/equity/in-ca...

"The case is an attempt to silence our Tribe about the truth of what happened at Standing Rock & the threat posed by DAPL to our land, our water and our people. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will not be silenced" Standing Rock Sioux Tribe statement on ET v. GP www.standingrock.org/2025/03/03/s...

“I’m going to spend the rest of my life fighting for our people, because we ain’t finished yet. We’re still in danger,” Peltier, now 80, said from his new home on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. From @grahamleebrewer.bsky.social apnews.com/article/leon...

Three decades after legislation pushed for the return of Native American remains to Indigenous communities, many of the nation’s top museums and universities still have thousands of human remains in their collections. Check on institutions near you with our database (just updated):

The request urges the ICC to investigate Biden, Blinken and Austin, for their “accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Mississippi Free Press is proud to announce the hire of Roger Amos, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, as our seventh reporter and 13th member of our editorial team.

For more than half a century the food chain has been polluted and generations have been devastated by it. Story by Brittany Guyot.

Using publicly available data, @gristnews.bsky.social has located millions of acres taken from hundreds of Indigenous nations, land that provides revenue to universities, K-12 schools, prisons, and others through fossil fuel exploration, mining, timber harvesting, and more. grist.org/land-grant-u...

A new report says green colonialism threatens Sámi culture in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. The report highlights human rights violations connected to Sámi lands being treated like sacrifice zones for global climate goals and green financial interests. grist.org/global-indig...

Nearly 2 million acres of Indigenous lands are reserved for state prison systems in 10 states. In 2024, those lands disbursed an estimated $33m in funding to carceral facilities & programs. Four states use those lands to fund detention facilities and systems for children. grist.org/indigenous/p...

Interested in working with the Indigenous Affairs desk at @gristnews.bsky.social? Deadline to apply is next week. job-boards.greenhouse.io/grist/jobs/4...

On Friday at @gristnews.bsky.social, we published a deep dive into the efforts of Yakama Nation to win back land wrongfully held by Washington State — and the legal morass that has ensued: grist.org/indigenous/s... As part of the piece, I built this interactive visualizing the story of Tract D.

The ongoing brutality committed against Indigenous peoples bolster a culture of over-consumption and play an undeniable role in the climate crisis. Given that anger is a hallmark of heavy metal, it isn’t surprising that an Indigenous audience would find it appealing. grist.org/arts-culture...

Washington state is eager to return trust lands on the Yakama reservation to the tribe. However, the state’s efforts are dictated by legal policies and priorities that ensure that Washington receive compensation for the lands’ value, even though it was wrongfully taken. grist.org/indigenous/s...

If the ICJ delivers the advisory opinion Vanuatu is seeking, Aguon hopes Indigenous peoples will leverage it in climate-related lawsuits against countries and corporations. Given the climate impacts Indigenous peoples are already experiencing, the stakes couldn’t be higher. grist.org/indigenous/j...

A few months back @gristnews.bsky.social, we published a big investigation into state trust lands on reservations and the extractive practices occurring on those parcels. I worked on the main interactive map for the piece, which allows you to explore 2 million acres of these trust lands in detail 🧵

"Some non-Natives, including the current mayor, say Farmington is not a violent place. But longtime Diné community members and human rights activists say improvements have been modest, and underlying issues remain unaddressed." The latest by @btoastie.bsky.social www.hcn.org/issues/56-12...

The Lumbee Tribe has applied for federal recognition, but that petition was denied in 1985 because it “could not establish the group’s descendency either culturally, politically, or genealogically from any tribe which existed historically in the area.” apnews.com/article/trum...

This fruit, that crossed a planet, carried by traders and travelers, and eventually by a few Muscogees along the Trail of Tears before they found a new home outside Sapulpa, Oklahoma, is a connection to another time and place. grist.org/indigenous/m...