How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered the trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve their history.
People & Places
Posted inApril 2025: A Monumental Reckoning
Meet the people who train wild horses
Volunteers sacrifice time, energy and money to help mustangs removed from the range find homes. Can they convince people to take them?
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How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future
With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.
Posted inApril 2025: A Monumental Reckoning
In a house of spirits, learning to settle
Making a home is a journey across time and space.
Posted inApril 2025: A Monumental Reckoning
‘We’re the stewards of the earth’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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After losing everything in the Eaton fire, a family holds onto joy
Navigating grief displacement and the small moments makes recovery possible for one Black family.
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The art of moving a buffalo
Pedro Calderon-Dominguez’s daily work requires calm, quiet and patience.
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Raúl Grijalva: A patriot for public lands
The legacy and words left by the committed and compassionate politician carry forward with public servants across the world.
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The indomitable Butte, Montana
The misunderstood, often-maligned mining town helps itself.
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Judge rules federal job cuts ‘unlawful’
The Forest Service, Park Service and other agencies must immediately reinstate workers purged by Trump.
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The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting
Last month’s terminations cut employees who serve critical support roles on fires.
Posted inMarch 2025: The Berry Pickers
Filipinos that strike
An oral history archive gathers some of the voices behind the recent LA teacher strikes.
Posted inMarch 2025: The Berry Pickers
‘I was determined to solve this problem’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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Indigenous spaces all around new Arizona exhibit
Fine art, downtown markets and natural aesthetics bloom at the Heard Museum as Phoenix’s cultural institution springs forward with Native artists.
Posted inIssues, March 2025: The Berry Pickers
The Indian education of Charles Sams
How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous teachings.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
How do we raise our children in a time of wildfire?
The poet Rachel Richardson learns, through writing and motherhood, to defy fear.
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A writer finds freedom in being unapologetically Indigenous
On strengthening roots in a new place.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
‘If we center Indigenous birthing people as the standard for protection, then everybody’s protected’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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Many renters are struggling after fleeing LA County wildfires
For many in the county, recovery requires a new lease, a new landlord, new schools and possibly a new state.
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The importance of ‘Being Caribou’
Remembering the activist and author Karsten Heuer.