❗Help close the gap: We still need to raise $40,000 by the end of March. Donate now

School starts a Native American studies program amid reckoning over racial injustice

Apr 22, 2021
The University of Miami is moving to address a gap: "We have no Indigenous perspectives on our campus," one professor said.
The University of Miami is on ancestral lands of Indigenous people, including the Seminole. Above: A Seminole family displays their pottery outside their home in the Florida Everglades in 1974.
Fox Photos/Getty Images

Bringing college degrees back to the reservation

Nov 19, 2018
There's no "white-collar economy" to support graduates, writer Sterling HolyWhiteMountain says.
Students throw their mortarboards in the air during their graduation photograph at the University of Birmingham degree congregations on July 14, 2009 in Birmingham, England.
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Indigenous communities are hit hard in American's most expensive cities

Mar 30, 2018
Look at any list of the most expensive places to live in the United States, and San Francisco and the Bay Area are almost always near the top. With 3.7 million Native Americans living in urban areas, the high cost of living is changing the lives of many. High Country News reporter Julian Brave NoiseCat […]