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Learn how this skilled seed-to-table cook supports her community and fights to keep her culture alive.
Oaxacan food activist Neftalí Durán thinks the food system as it stands is bound for a reckoning.
The Interior Department’s probe into its former policy “will inevitably shed light on extremely troubling episodes in our nation’s history,” lawmakers said.
With a gaping void of trust between Indigenous communities and the government — chiefs, MPPs, and other leaders are stepping in.
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Native Americans endured racism, oppression and new diseases brought by the European settlers -- a history that can't be ignored, some descendants say.
Chef Andrea Murdoch was born in Venezuela to an Indigenous Andean family. However, she spent her childhood with her adopted family in suburban Ohio, where her culture and identity always felt elusive to her. After a traumatic divorce left her with PTSD, Murdoch found healing in cooking Native and Indigenous foods, using it as a way to connect to her heritage.
While other women are being heard in the Me Too era, native women are quietly going missing in life, in the media and in the data.
These water protectors want to do more than just stop the pipeline threatening their own land, because they understand that, "We have alternatives to oil, no question. We do not have any alternatives to water."
Meet some of the teenagers and 20-somethings who left their lives around the U.S. to join the #NoDAPL movement in Standing Rock.
"It's like me and my sisters going to the Vatican and saying we want to put a waste dump right under the pillar where they say St. Peter is buried."