Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Event celebrates California’s native plant foods and their web of relationships

This web of food-centered relationships will take center stage at the California Native Plant Foods Celebration and Symposium, a first-of-its-kind event at the University of California, Davis. It will ...

‘A holy place’: Preserving Native American culture in the Southwest

Despite the political tug-of-war over two majestic buttes, this corner of Utah is hallowed ground to the tribes and pueblos ...

At 70, she embraced her Chumash roots and helped revive a dying skill

Susanne Hammel-Sawyer knew almost nothing about the traditions of her Chumash ancestors until she was 70. Today she is one of ...
Arizona Daily Star

Native Americans granted citizenship 100 years ago, but voting rights came decades later

June 2 marked one century since then-President Calvin Coolidge signed a law granting American citizenship to Native Americans. Women had secured the right to vote four years earlier under the 19th ...
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Primitive basket weaving techniques

In this video, we explore the art of basket making using primitive techniques. Witness the process of gathering materials and crafting functional baskets from natural resources. This video is part of ...
The Hill

States can remove barriers for Native American voters before the midterms

Despite being the original inhabitants of this land, Native American voters have faced centuries of discrimination pushed by leaders who intentionally block tribal communities from opportunities and ...
Salon

Native American’s Tribal ID deemed “fake” by ICE

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles is most remembered from the 1990s TV show “Northern Exposure,” though more recently, she was as a guest star on an episode of “Last of Us.” But this week, she says she ...
Austin American-Statesman

With new cultural center, Austin’s Native Americans find a year-round place to gather

Raven Price-Smith remembers how starved she was to find other Native Americans when she moved to Austin four years ago. The 23-year-old had grown up as the only Native American at her high school in a ...
Minnesota Daily

Celebrating Minnesota’s Native histories during Native American Heritage Month

Native American artists across the Twin Cities celebrate and honor Indigenous cultures through their art during Native American Heritage Month. Native American Heritage Month, observed each November, ...
Newsweek

ICE Almost Deports Native American

A Native American woman was reportedly nearly turned over to federal immigration authorities after a wrongful ICE detainer was issued by an Iowa jail. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of the Salt ...
KHQ

Native American youth face high incarceration rates in Washington

WASHINGTON - New data highlights alarming disparities in the incarceration rates of Native American children in Washington. According to the Associated Press, information from the nonprofit Sentencing ...