Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies (CfIS) Hosts Annual Symposium With Keynote Speaker Miranda Belarde-Lewis on March 9–10

The Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies (CfIS) will host its third annual symposium, , on March 9–10 at Bard College’s Annandale campus. Presented as part of CfIS’s mission to advance public ...
Mongabay

Three new studies on Indigenous conservation for International Indigenous Peoples Day

Indigenous peoples and local communities have nuanced, in-depth knowledge of climate change impacts that needs to be recognized by scientists and policy-makers, according to researchers. Industrial ...

Chicago’s Newberry Library gets $4 million to help tribal nations revitalize Indigenous languages

The research library received a Mellon Foundation grant to expand access to its vast Indigenous collections, including ...
Mongabay

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Global biodiversity hotspots, which cover only 2.4% of the Earth’s land, have witnessed more than 80% of armed conflicts between 1950 and 2000, some of which continue even today. Armed conflicts, ...
The Daily Illini

Journalist discusses Indigenous origins, impact of land-grant universities

On Thursday, Tristan Ahtone discussed the connection between Indigenous land dispossession and the founding of land-grant universities.
New Hampshire Public Radio

A new Dartmouth study examines how to include Indigenous data in environmental research

Environmental scientists are gathering new data about our planet every day. It’s often sampled or collected from land stewarded by Indigenous people, and a new study out of Dartmouth College examines ...

Indigenous Peoples and locals report a drastic decline in bird size across three continents

Birds currently inhabiting many territories across Africa, Latin America and Asia are, on average, considerably smaller than those that predominated in 1940. This is the conclusion of an international ...
PBS

Indigenous groups in the American West lived alongside horses by the early 1600s, study finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse is symbolic of the American West, but when and how domesticated horses first reached the region has long been a matter of historical debate. A new analysis of horse bones ...
Ensia

A study of nearly 700 studies makes it clear: Environmental injustice is rampant around the world

We are glad to share Ensia articles free of charge under the terms of Creative Commons’ Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license. At the beginning of your post, please attribute the writer and Ensia ...
ksby

How SLO County’s first Latinx Indigenous Study is addressing healthcare issues in the Mixteco community

UPDATE: The San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department released updated statistics regarding the health services participants in the Latinx Indigenous Enumeration Study have never received.
High Country News

Study of missing and murdered Indigenous women highlights police data failures

A landmark report from the Seattle Indian Health Board’s Urban Indian Health Institute paints a critical picture of law enforcement, data collection and media coverage of missing and murdered ...