Indigenous Stories
I'm passionate about providing a platform for native communities to tell their stories - here are some of them
BBC News
How to Move a Town
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. –– "I can't smell the water," Chris Brunet says as he sits on the front porch of his new home in Gray, Louisiana. "I can't smell it, I can't see it, I can't sense it. And I miss it." Brunet, a member of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, lived most his life on Isle de Jean Charles, a small strip of land about 40 miles (64km) away in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, which has lost 98% of its land to coastal erosion.
The Guardian
Beaver Believers: Tribes Are Bringing Back America's Most Hated Animals
Molly Alves steps down hard on the edge of a heavy wire trap, forcing its sides open with her hands. With care she lays the poised trap, baited with twigs and branches, in a bracingly cold stream. Her target? A beaver.
The Guardian
Reviving Hawaii's Royal Fishponds
On a clear day, Ku’uleini Keakealani peers into the Kīholo fish pond on the west coast of Hawaii Island, Hawaii, and sees an abundance of fish.
Her ancestors were once stewards of this place.
CNN
Inside a Mayan Village Where Locals Fight To Preserve Their Culture
A bumpy, 10-passenger plane ride from Belize City takes you over lush green jungles, craggy mountaintops and skims along the vibrant Caribbean Sea, dotted with paradisiacal atolls, before coming to land on a one-strip airport, a slash of dusty red in the midst of thick treetops.
