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Who pays when a remote Alaska village can no longer stay?
Damage in Kwigillingok from ex-Typhoon Halong is seen on Oct. 16, 2025. (Photo provided by the Alaska National Guard) In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, schools in the flood zone remained closed. Homes swept away are still scattered across the tundra. Where crushing waves snapped essential boardwalks, the days now carry the drone of power tools worked by young Yup’iks determined to rebuild them. From a bird’s eye view, the land seems to signal it has finally relaxed.
Who pays when a remote Alaska village can no longer stay?
In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, schools in the flood zone remained closed. Homes swept away are still scattered across the tundra. Where crushing waves snapped essential boardwalks, the days now carry the drone of power tools worked by young Yup'iks determined to rebuild them. From a bird's eye view, the land seems to signal it has finally relaxed.
Who pays when a remote Alaska village can no longer stay?
In Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, schools in the flood zone remained closed. Homes swept away are still scattered across the tundra. Where crushing waves snapped essential boardwalks, the days now carry the drone of power tools worked by young Yup’iks determined to rebuild them. From a bird’s eye view, the land seems to signal it has finally relaxed.
Six months after Halong, typhoon survivors tell senators Alaska villages need more than disaster aid
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs about last fall’s deadly Typohoon Halong, Paul J. Paul, Chief of the Native Village of Kipnuk, recalled the moment his six-year-old granddaughter asked the family to sing “Silent Night” — in the dark — as early-morning floodwaters swirled violently around their home. Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
Six months after Halong, typhoon survivors tell senators Alaska villages need more than disaster aid
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs about last fall’s deadly Typohoon Halong, Paul J. Paul, Chief of the Native Village of Kipnuk, recalled the moment his six-year-old granddaughter asked the family to sing “Silent Night” — in the dark — as early-morning floodwaters swirled violently around their home. Lucy Martin, a tribal resilience assistant coordinator for Kwigillingok, listened as she dabbed her eyes dry.
Six months after Halong, typhoon survivors tell senators Alaska villages need more than disaster aid Original
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs about last fall’s deadly Typohoon Halong, Paul J. Paul, Chief of the Native Village of Kipnuk, recalled the moment his six-year-old granddaughter asked the family to sing “Silent Night” — in the dark — as early-morning floodwaters swirled violently around their home. Lucy Martin, a tribal resilience assistant coordinator for Kwigillingok, listened as she dabbed her eyes dry.
At Alaska forums, U.S. senators warn Greenland tensions are straining Arctic alliances Original
On Friday afternoon in downtown Anchorage, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, arrived at the Arctic Encounter Summit at the Dena’ina Convention Center, an annual gathering of policymakers, business leaders and international officials focused on Arctic strategy. A day after welcoming news that two additional U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers would be homeported in the state — a development she has sought for decades – Murkowski struck a tempered tone.
In decades-old dispute, Gwich’in advocates and allies advance Arctic Refuge defense Original
Calling it an attempt to “prioritize profit over people,” the Gwich’in Steering Committee and twelve conservation groups renewed litigation Tuesday to block the federal government’s oil and gas leasing program in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge, one of the last vast, untouched habitats in the United States.
Swept away homes, unearthed graves, submerged hunting trails: how Typhoon Halong destroyed an Alaskan village
The village of Kipnuk in western Alaska is damaged after sustaining heavy damage during Typhoon Halong.Photograph: Marc Lester/AP Silver-lined clouds hung over the Yup’ik village of Kwigillingok the Thursday before a weekend storm was forecasted to pass through. Dan Winkelman was at the community health clinic for a ground-breaking ceremony, a commemoration of the facility’s much needed expansion.
A Lost Look
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In the summer of 1990, Native land defenders in Oka, Quebec, confronted white neighbors over a proposed golf course expansion on forest long claimed by the Mohawk of Kanehsatà:ke. The standoff, which lasted seventy-eight days, left two people dead: a provincial officer and a Mohawk elder. But in the majority of press coverage, only one fatality seemed to matter.
How The Supreme Court’s Abortion Leak Impacts Native Women
The Supreme Court’s draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which was leaked to Politico on May 2, is not the worst-case scenario for what misogynistic lawmaking can do to a women’s body. In the 1970s, when my mother began working as an ICU nurse at the Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, coercive sterilizations were happening down the hall in the obstetrics unit on Native women during childbirth.
AK - Alaska Prepares For An Arctic Rush
As warmer weather opens up the Arctic for transit and exploration, new energy ambitions emerge The rapidly melting Arctic is being targeted for world energy dominance and the issue drove the dialogue at the Arctic Encounter Symposium, a two-day conference last week in downtown Anchorage, attracting a global roster of diplomats, politicians, energy executives, and Indigenous stakeholders.
Opinion: Offensive place names and the climate crisis are symptoms of the same problem
Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Last fall, two popular ski resorts announced name changes after decades of demands made by Indigenous women and their communities. The legendary Squaw Valley Ski Resort in California unveiled its rebranding in August, followed by Maine’s Big Squaw Mountain Ski Resort in December.
Opinion Archives
The connection between offensive names like "Squaw Valley" and the climate crisis runs deeper than many realize. Opinion: Yoon Kim Reflects on the Diversity Movement in the Outdoor Industry Eleven years into his career, he says, "Our community is more diverse than ever before.
Deb Haaland, A Living Testament
Photo by Shane Balkowitsch SHAYAI LUCERO watched Deb Haaland's confirmation hearing from her flower shop on the Laguna Pueblo. She knows Haaland and her extended family. The floral business Lucero runs out of her converted garage used to belong to Haaland's sister.
Attacking the Vote in Arizona
Gabriella Cázeres-Kelly toasts to a campaign billboard erected in South Tucson, Pima County, Arizona during her successful 2020 campaign for recorder. (@fredurbina) When Gabriella Cázares-Kelly won her race for Pima County recorder last November in Arizona, she was open-eyed about how tightly gripped voter suppression hung over marginalized communities like the one she grew up in — on the Tohono O’odham Nation.
Madam Secretary, Officially
Laguna Pueblo Congresswoman Deb Haaland Sworn-in as First Indigenous Cabinet Secretary; Now Leads Interior Department Debra Anne Haaland (Laguna / Jemez Pueblo) attended her swearing-in ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Ceremonial Office in Washington, D.C., wearing a ribbon skirt designed by Agnes Woodard. (Photo: U.S. Department of the Interior) Indigenously encourages you to reproduce this article by taking these steps.
Madam Secretary
Senate Confirms Haaland as Interior Secretary; Marks First Indigenous Person to Oversee Native Treaty Rights and Ceded Indigenous lands Debra Anne Haaland (Laguna / Jemez Pueblo) became the first Indigenous person to be the interior secretary, by a vote of 51–40. Her confirmation came amidst Republican backlash and delays over the Biden administration’s prioritization of climate change over energy.
Could Indigenous Midwifery Improve Maternal Health for Native Women?
After decades of neglect by the mainstream health care system, the revival of Indigenous practices offers a model for reform. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark March 8, 2021 Honoring Native women: Nicolle Gonzales of the Changing Woman Initiative checks the blood pressure of a patient, Kaylynn Begaye. (Jenni Monet) Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Get The Nation’s Weekly Newsletter Fridays. The best of the week.
Indigenously: Deb Haaland set for historic confirmation hearing
Bloomberg Quicktake: Deb Haaland Will be the First Native American Interior Secretary Historic Hearing Set for Haaland The confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee Rep. Deb Haaland is scheduled for Tuesday, February 23 at 9:30 a.m. ET Monday, February 22, 2021 By Jenni Monet Indigenously This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today. A date has been set for the much-anticipated confirmation hearing of Interior Secretary nominee, Rep.
Historic Hearing Set for Haaland
The confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary nominee Rep. Deb Haaland is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 9:30 a.m. ET Rep. Deb Haaland sworn-in to Congress on January 3, 2019 wearing her traditional mhanta and other Pueblo finery. She is here with her daughter, Somah (left), and other extended family and friends. A date has been set for the much-anticipated confirmation hearing of Interior Secretary nominee, Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, a tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo.
This Land is Y̶o̶u̶r̶ Indigenous Land
Jubilation, an awkward folk song, and early opposition to Haaland nomination mark Biden’s bright beginning in Indian Country Jennifer Lopez sings “This Land is Your Land” during the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. (YouTube) Indigenously encourages you to reproduce this article by taking these steps. Wednesday’s inauguration of the 46th President ushered in a great sense of relief across Indian Country, but not without a faux pas.
Indian Country After Trump
Book-ended by aggressive energy deals, his presidency is one of the most hostile to Native Americans in the past half-century President Trump at a Nov. 3, 2018 campaign rally at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport in Montana with Crow Nation tribal council members. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) Reprints and Reposts: Indigenously encourages you to make free use of this article by taking these easy steps.
He saved a cop but they don’t talk about him
Juan Carlos Salgado is a hero, an undocumented immigrant, and someone who Republicans will never mention. If the cops had died in the crash and Juan Carlos Salgado Villalobos had been driving the car his face would be on TVs tuned to Fox News from sea to shining sea. They’d run his mugshot alongside CCTV footage showing the squad car being struck violently and starting on fire. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRASHES INTO POLICE CAR, KILLING OFFICERS, the chyron would read.
Haaland’s Nomination Could Signal Pivot Point for Tribal Sovereignty
The day after news broke that Joe Biden had nominated Representative Deb Haaland to be interior secretary, Gabriella Cazeres-Kelly woke up to an unusual amount of Twitter engagement—she’d received dozens of “likes” on a post referring to the Laguna Pueblo congresswoman as her “Auntie Deb.” “It finally occurred to me that y’all might not know...” Cazeres-Kelly, a T’ohono Oodham citizen explained to her online audience.
Why Dr. Fauci’s Vaccine Plea To African-Americans Is Racist
We don’t trust the government or the medical community because both are inherently racist, brother. Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House. | 31 Mar 2020 | Photo Credit: Win McNamee, Getty Images America is inherently racist, and this country has done many things to us for no other reason except they could.
The Native Vote Is Not Code for “Navajo”
One of several billboards across the state of Arizona to mobilize Native voters in the 2020 Election. (MK Titla) Among Arizona’s Indigenous electorate, the biggest support for Biden came from a county no one’s talking about. This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free. For Native voters, this election year hasdealt us one disappointing data dilemma after another.
There Are a Record Number of Indigenous Candidates This Year. Here’s a Few to Watch.
Candidate Jackie Fielder (D) campaigning for California’s State House District 11 seat in San Francisco, Oct. 12. (@JackieFieleder/Instagram) A total of 146 Natives are in races big and small, making their voices heard nationwide and in 10 states. This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free.
Meet the Indigenous Women Who Fought for the Vote
Voting rights advocate Lucy Nicolar Poolaw of the Penobscot Nation casts the first Native American vote allowed on a reservation in Maine, 1955. (Danny Maher, Bangor Daily News) The feminists in the (unfinished) battle for suffrage in Indian Country This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free. It took the better part of a century to pass a law saying American women had the right to vote.
For Native ‘water protectors,’ Standing Rock protest has become fight for religious freedom, human rights
Nov 3, 2016 5:19 PM EDT The tops of teepees could be seen in the distance, east of where a standoff between police and protesters was intensifying. Draped in a Pendleton blanket stood Casey Camp-Horinek praying in the middle of North Dakota Highway 1806. The Ponca woman, a respected traditionalist, was singing with a sacred pipe gripped in her hands. A small group had gathered closely around her. One indigenous elder stood with an eagle staff, a sacred prayer stick, by his side.
The Native Voters Who Could Decide Control of the Senate
In political races that may end with the narrowest of victories, the nation’s Indigenous electorate is playing a key role Supporters hold “Lumbees for Trump” signs as President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Robeson County Fairgrounds in Lumberton, North Carolina, Oct. 24, 2020 (Chris Seward) This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free.
Native women are exposed to the highest rates of violence in America - and it's driving the political agenda.
Four in five Native women experience violence in their lifetime. In November, health and healing will be on Native voter's minds. This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free. The day my mother told me my abusive father would be moving out, I fake cried. At eight-years-old, I was a victim of repeated domestic violence, although I didn’t see myself that way. I was just a Native kid growing up in the early 1980s when society mostly ignored such cases of chronic abuse.
Sarah Eagle Heart On Indigenous ‘Inclusion At Every Level’
Photo by Martina Fornace 10.12.2020 WORDS BY JENNI MONET Indigenous storyteller Sarah Eagle Heart shares her thoughts on winning an Emmy, launching Return to the Heart Foundation, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. WORDS BY JENNI MONET I first met Sarah Eagle Heart in 2009 on the edge of America in Kivalina, Alaska.
Canceling Columbus
The Indigenous Delegation arrives at the Geneva conference, 1977. (John Curl) More states and cities are adopting Indigenous Peoples Day since it was first proposed in 1977 Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 falls on October 12. This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free. In 1977, dozens of delegates from across Indian Country traveled to the UN Geneva, to make the first declaration for Indigenous Peoples Day.
I testified to the U.N. about being harassed as a female journalist. It helped me see the ills of my own industry.
Jenni Monet September 17 September 17 Public speaking has never been a problem for me, but this time was different. I surprised myself at how nervous I was before making my remarks. It wasn’t a big crowd — maybe a dozen women’s rights defenders and a few press freedom advocates. We had gathered on Zoom for an expert group meeting on violence against women journalists — talks that had been prompted by the fact-finding mission of United Nations Special Rapporteur Dubravka Simonovic.
Jenni Monet: Bureau of Indian Affairs officer on leave after fatal shooting of Brandon Laducer
A Tale of Two Police Shootings: A Black victim sparked protests, a dead Native man got ignored Native Americans die from police violence more than any other American, a fact that is chronically overlooked. By Jenni Monet Indigenously This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today.
A Tale of Two Police Shootings: A Black victim sparked protests, a dead Native man got ignored
Native Americans die from police violence more than any other American, a fact that is chronically overlooked. Jacob Blake (left) was shot seven times by Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, Sunday, Aug. 23. Brandon Laducer, a Turtle Mountain tribal citizen was reportedly shot by police an unknown number of times on the reservation the same day. (Photos: Obtained from Facebook) This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free.
Jenni Monet: Indian Country's ANWR
How an Iñupiat Trump Official, Tara Sweeney, is challenging everything you know about Indigenous environmentalism By Jenni Monet Indigenously This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today. It was late-February, 2001 when a doe-eyed Tara Sweeney, then 27-years-old, joined members of Congress and others to promote drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. President George W. Bush had been in office barely a month.
Indian Country’s ANWR
How an Iñupiat Trump Official, Tara Sweeney, is challenging everything you know about Indigenous environmentalism A 2017 newsletter cover of the Iñupiat-owned Arctic Slope Regional Corp. after Congress opened part of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration. This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Sign up today. It’s free.
Jenni Monet: Meet the Indigenous women who fought for the vote
The feminists in the (unfinished) battle for suffrage in Indian Country By Jenni Monet Indigenously This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today. It took the better part of a century to pass a law saying American women had the right to vote. It took even longer to deliver this right to Indigenous women — which really short-changed all Native Americans.
What the Trump Victory Means for Standing Rock
The Sioux tribe is facing a pro-oil president-elect with personal investments riding on the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline. Why you can trust us Less than 12 hours after Donald Trump walked onto a New York City stage as the newly elected president, the stock price for Energy Transfer Equity shot up 15 percent. Among that company’s holdings is Energy Transfer Partners, operator of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.
Harlan the “Hayseed”
Harlan McKosato (Sac and Fox) longtime broadcaster and columnist who addressed modern Indigenous issues passed away Tuesday, July 21, 2020. He was 54. PHOTO: Harlan McKosato’s Memorial Fund, GoFundMe Reckoning with the life and death of a Native American journalist This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today. It’s free. The last time I saw Harlan McKosato was too long ago, the summer of 2011.
The Faces of Colonization
Mount Rushmore on unceded Treaty lands of the Oceti Sakowin (Black Hills, South Dakota). Photo: chascar Making the Case for Treaties at Mount Rushmore This story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today. Nick Tilsen wasn’t even born yet the year his parents helped organize The International Black Hills Survival Gathering. The massive event was held during the summer of 1980 on the Lakota’s holiest homelands.
The Biggest Emergency
One night last November, Jon Eagle Sr., tribal historian of the Standing Rock Sioux, spoke at a hearing before the North Dakota Public Service Commission. Three years had passed since the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and though life on the prairie had returned to some semblance of normalcy, concerns of a potential oil spill remained. “We’re still here, an ancient people, deeply connected to our environment, deeply connected to this land, this water, and this earth,” Eagle said.
The struggle to find missing members of Navajo Nation
PBS NewsHour Logo: Home May 30, 2019 6:20 PM EDT The Brief But Spectacular team recently brought attention to the volume of sexual assault cases in the Navajo Nation. Now, Meskee Yanabah Yatsayte, leader of an organization that looks for missing persons from the Navajo community, explains this silent epidemic.
A Native American womanâs brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law
Tue, May 07, 2019 - Page 9ã Savanna LaFontaine-Greywindâs murder sparked outrage in the US, but now a bill named after her aims to address the crisis of violence against native women By Jenni Monet / The Guardian Illustration: Yusha There was heartbreak across Indian Country in August 2017 when the body of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was found duct-taped in plastic in the Red River.
A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law
There was heartbreak across Indian Country in August 2017 when the body of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was found duct-taped in plastic in the Red River. The ribbon of water demarcates North Dakota from Minnesota, a tributary flowing northward across the Canadian border. It’s where, a few years earlier, an Indigenous girl, 15-year-old Tina Fontaine, was discovered wrapped in a duvet cover and weighted down by rocks.
The crisis in covering Indian Country
Opinion By Jenni Monet March 29, 2019 When Senator Elizabeth Warren remarked during a recent campaign event that Native Americans should be “part of the conversation” about proposed reparations, her quote quickly ascended a benighted editorial chain, generating national headlines. In doing so, it also cast light on how poorly politicians and journalists in the US understand matters significant to Indian Country.
Why I Started Publishing an 'Indigenous Version' of My Articles
Two years ago on Thanksgiving Day, I reported from North Dakota along the muddy banks of Canté Peta Creek on the borderlands of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The Indigenous-led movement to try and stop the Dakota Access Pipeline had drawn a massive crowd. The demonstrations happening that day had little to do with observing Thanksgiving, a highly problematic holiday for many Native Americans.
With Shutdown, Treaty Obligations to Native Americans Are Affected
Deanna Lubarsky at the Indian Health Service in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is one of many federally funded entities serving Native Americans that has been affected by the shutdown.
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