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Climate Change

We Can Have Better Arguments Around Climate Change

A conversation with Oliviah Franke, a conversations program coordinator at the Alaska Humanities Forum.

Blog Post

07.25.2022
Community Development

Families Need an Infrastructure of Autonomy

If infrastructure investment is distributed without deep community input, it will fail. The Navajo Nation is a case in point.

BY Shandiin Herrera

Blog Post

07.07.2021
Literature

Fiction in a Time of Pandemic

Authors nominated for the Aspen Words Literary Prize discuss writing when the real world became stranger than fiction.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.23.2021
Climate Change

Finding Indigenous Climate Solutions

We are the precious gems of knowledge, and caretakers of this planet we call home.

BY Shondiin Mayo

Blog Post

04.22.2021
Literature

Louise Erdrich Is Fighting for Our Democracy

Her novel The Night Watchman is based on the life of her extraordinary grandfather who fought against Native dispossession.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

03.23.2021
Identity and Equity

What It Means to Be Both Black and Indigenous

Thousands of people in the United States identify as Black-Indigenous or Afro-Indigenous. Meet three members of this community.

BY Center for Native American Youth

Blog Post

02.18.2021
Identity and Equity

Decolonization Can’t Happen Without Indigenous Voices

True decolonization means genuinely listening to Indigenous community members and creating shifts in the power dynamics.

BY Owen L. Oliver

Blog Post

10.09.2020
Literature

Beth Piatote Writes Native Stories for Native Readers

Piatote’s The Beadworkers is an inventive, mixed-genre debut collection that draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.18.2020
Literature

The Untold Stories of the American West

Fajardo-Anstine’s work provides literary representation to Latinas of indigenous ancestry.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.12.2020