At Sante Fe’s Native American Fashion Week, It’s ‘Not Just About Style, It’s About Presence’

At Sante Fe’s Native American Fashion Week, It’s ‘Not Just About Style, It’s About Presence’

Relative Arts NYC runway Tira Howard “Native people are still here. We always have been. But too often, this country acts like we’re not. That erasure doesn’t just happen in textbooks. It happens on runways, in museums, in the media and in fashion houses,” says Amber Dawn, founder of Native Fashion Week. Though Indigenous practices,…

Read More
It Fought to Save the Whales. Can Greenpeace Save Itself?

It Fought to Save the Whales. Can Greenpeace Save Itself?

Greenpeace is among the most well-known environmental organizations in the world, the result of more than 50 years of headline-grabbing protest tactics. Its activists have confronted whaling ships on the high seas. They’ve hung banners from the Eiffel Tower. They’ve occupied oil rigs. A (fictional) activist even sailed with Greenpeace in an episode of “Seinfeld,”…

Read More
The Dark Side of Canada’s Fight Over Lobster

The Dark Side of Canada’s Fight Over Lobster

Nighttime provides ideal cover for acts of sabotage in the sleepy fishing villages along the southern shores of Nova Scotia. Slashed buoys, stolen lobster crates, mysterious fires. These are just some of the acts of vandalism on the wharves where lobster fishers have been locked in battle for more than three decades. Lobstermen have a…

Read More
Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school in Pennsylvania on Monday to honor the resilience of Indigenous tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and hundreds of similar abusive institutions. The White House announced the creation of the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School…

Read More