tribal rights

Tech
Fires Are Sometimes What a Forest Needs the Most
The Karuk Tribe in northern California has been prevented from practicing ceremonial landscape burns for 100 years. Now, ecologists are starting to realize that was a mistake.
Kaleigh Rogers
3.21.18
Travel
The Amazon Is a Dangerous Place If You Live on a Bunch of Gold
Last week, news broke that back in July illegal goldminers allegedly wiped out an entire village of indigenous Yanomami in the Amazon. Reports suggest that they did this by raining down machine gun fire and crude explosives from helicopters.
Joanna Eede, Joanna Eede, Photos by Claudia Andujar
9.6.12