As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.
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How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future ancestors
With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.
Alaska is short on gravel and long on development projects
The state’s North Slope communities need rocks, and they’re hard to come by.
Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening drinking water
One researcher described streams that have become “so acidic that they curdle your powdered milk.”
Carving a future for the Tongass National Forest
In the Tongass, youth help manage a forest and protect an ancient art.
In Arizona and Utah, the boarding school round-ups live with survivors to this day
Life as a boarding school student in the Southwest meant constantly being shuttled around on buses or flatbed trailers, never being told where you were going or who would be waiting for you.