Source: Interfaith group tackling climate crisis - Times Union

Environmental activists are opposed to a project that would build a sand and gravel mine in Sargent Ranch in southern Santa Clara County that Native Americans say has been sacred ground for healing…

Source: “This is definitely a local Standing Rock”: Sargent Ranch

It’s been two years since the protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota which triggered headlines across the country. Friday morning outside the Native American Rights Fund offices in …

Source: Day of Prayer in Boulder shines light on Native American issues

LUMBERTON — A controversy in Scotland County concerning students who want to wear American Indian cultural and religious items during their high school graduation ceremonies spilled over into the…

Source: Tribe backs feathers at graduations | Laurinburg Exchange

(RNS) — As long as millennials adapt rituals and spells as a force for change, companies will hawk those rituals and spells to preserve the status quo.

Source: Can witches and consumer culture coexist? - Religion News Service

As plans for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border are raising fears that the ancestral lands of Native Americans in the south will be divided, indigenous people in the north are calling attention to their own border problems.The United States and Canada share the largest undefended border in the world, but free passage across it for indigenous tribes is easier in one direction than the other, tribal leaders and immigration lawyers said at the Arctic Encounter Symposium this week.A tribal member born in Canada can come to the United States to work or live without the paperwork...

The village of Taholah on the Quinault Indian Nation is just a stone’s throw from a pebbled stretch of beach pocked with the tiny holes of razor clams. The town is wedged between Washington state’s rocky Pacific coastline and a hillside of towering cedar and Douglas fir evergreens. It’s been the home of the Quinault peoples for 12,000 years. And for the last 50-odd years, the home of tribal member Larry Ralston. Back in 2008, when Ralston first learned climate change would cause sea levels to rise, he tho

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Another fragment of the Willamette Meteorite was returned to the tribes in 2006 by Willamette University.

Source: Fragment of sacred meteorite Tomanowos returned to Grand Ronde tribes

As a 20-something living in New York City, Chelsea Luger tried out more fitness classes than you can imagine."I really should have started a blog about that," she laughs on a call to mbg. But when Luger started to think a little more critically about where this passion for movement was coming from, an idea for a much larger project began to take shape."One day it clicked that there's a direct connection between my interest in fitness and my traditional culture," says Luger, a Native American who grew up

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By now, most political followers are aware that the 116th Congress is the most diverse in history. It includes the first Native American women — Sharice Davids, D-Kan., and Debra

Source: Although Congress is still overwhelmingly Christian, it is changing [faith & values] | Food + Living | lancasteronline.com

(The Conversation) — Embedded in indigenous languages is information about their beliefs about the creation and preservation of the environment.

Source: How the loss of Native Americans' languages affects our understanding of their belief - Religion News Service

(The Conversation) — This latest Supreme Court case coincides with a resurgence of interest among a new generation of scholars and activists who are learning about and reviving indigenous food systems.

Source: How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories - Religion News Service