Can Indigenous Language Comics Save a Mother Tongue?
Publishers and researchers are creating graphic publications to help stem the loss of Hñäñho, spoken by the Ñäñho people.
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Climate Migrants Are on the Move—And the U.S. Needs Their Help
A U.S. anthropologist who works in Guatemala argues that opening the Mexico-U.S. border must become a political priority in the fight against climate catastrophe—in part because people in the U.S. have much to learn from those who hold different values, perspectives, and knowledge.
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What Indigenous Languages Reveal About Bear Genetics
New research on Indigenous language groups in British Columbia shows a relationship between geographical patterns in genetic variation in grizzly bears and words used to identify these bear populations.
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When Asked if the World Would End They Answer No
An Indigenous anthropologist-poet visits Woody Island in Alaska, formerly the site of the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage in the early 20th-century, where her great-grandfather lived before being sent to the Carlisle Indian School.
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Matrilines
An Indigenous anthropologist-poet searches for ancestors while acknowledging the need to adapt.
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Matryoshka Song
An Indigenous anthropologist-poet speaks to the Russian colonization of Alaska from 1784–1867 and how stereotypes and histories shape the lives of Indigenous women.