In indigenous communities like Nuyoó, where almost every family has members who have migrated for work, low-cost phone calls are seen as an essential service. By Nina Lakhani. (Aug. 15, 2016)

More than 80 people were arrested in North Dakota on Saturday, as police armed with pepper spray descended on a protest near the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. By Nadia Prupis.

A "Sacred Water" story. By Brian Bienkowski. (Sept. 29, 2016)

Authorities had issued a warrant for her arrest after Democracy Now! host filmed guards for the Dakota access pipeline using dogs and pepper spray on protesters. By Sam Levin.

Everything on Kivalina is hard: there are no roads, few jobs, and rising waters. But everything gets better when the villagers catch a whale, which hasn't happened since 1994. By Saki Knafo.

As Lauren Chopek painfully details her story, she does so with the reticence of a survivor, as if somehow remaining silent would have been better. "I used to blame myself for everything. But, like I, I would say I let them do that to me. I am dirty. It's my fault," says Chopek through tears. But Chopek is finally speaking out, determined to shake the guilt and shame that she knows should stalk her perpetrators instead of her.

“It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door” – Publilius Syrus

Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy. By Tom Kizzia.

As many as 7,000 native people gather to protect Mother Earth from the Dakota Access pipeline. By Kevin Hardy.

In Mexico, organised crime reaches everywhere, even into the smallest village - except for one small town in the state of Michoacan. By Linda Pressly.

The federal response to Lakota protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline couldn't be more different than their reaction to this year's Bundy occupation. By Michael McLean.

In indigenous communities like Nuyoó [Oaxaca], where almost every family has members who have migrated for work, low-cost phone calls are seen as an essential service. By Nina Lakhani.

The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures. By Rosalyn Eves.

The Westward Plight of the Apalachee. By Justin Nobel.

Justin Trudeau’s government has quietly issued its first batch of permits for the Site C dam — allowing construction to move forward on the $8.8 billion BC Hydro project despite ongoing legal challenges by two First Nations.

He was also a war hero and a ballroom dancer — Bald Eagle’s life is hard to fit in a headline. He parachuted into Normandy, acted in Westerns and starred in his first feature film at the age of 95. By Camila Domonoske.

Louis Sarno went to record the music of the Central African Republic's Bayaka community in the 80s and never turned back. By Emiko Jozuka.

Drawing on John Pilger's long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia (2013) is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.

It wasn’t until Europeans took over North America that natives adopted the ideas of gender roles. For Native Americans, there was no set of rules that men and women had to abide by in order to be considered a “normal” member of their tribe. By Pearson McKinney.

Iqaluit shot to prominence in 1995 as the capital for a bold endeavour in Inuit self-government. But their fight to carve out a modern city that still pays tribute to ancient traditions had just begun.