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Our Living Lands

Mountain West News Bureau

Our Living Lands is a weekly podcast that explores the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities' health, culture, and environment. Join us to hear about unique challenges and innovative solutions from Alaska to Florida and beyond. We have explored the difficult decisions tribes are making about leaving their land, the power of apple cider to deal with grizzly bears, and even head-bangingly loud heavy metal music.

Led by a three-person Indigenous team, Our Living Lands is a collaboration of the Mountain West News Bureau, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, and Native Public Media.

Our Living Lands is a weekly podcast that explores the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities' health, culture, and environment. Join us to hear about unique challenges and innovative solutions from Alaska to Florida and beyond. We have explored the difficult decisions tribes are making about leaving their land, the power of apple cider to deal with grizzly bears, and even head-bangingly loud heavy metal music.

Led by a three-person Indigenous team, Our Living Lands is a collaboration of the Mountain West News Bureau, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, and Native Public Media.

6hr 3min
Thumbnail for "Exploring the connections between Indigenous health and the environment".
Thumbnail for "What we can learn from Mayan astronomy".
Thumbnail for "Inside Denver’s bison return".
Thumbnail for "How Denver is helping Tribes bring back bison".
Thumbnail for "Forging connections among art, land and resilience".
Thumbnail for "How one Blackfeet Nation scientist is using robot beavers to help the environment".
Thumbnail for "Colorado’s first Indigenous poet laureate on land and history".
Thumbnail for "How Tribes in the Pacific Northwest are tackling climate change".
Thumbnail for "How one national park is featuring the voices of Indigenous people".
Thumbnail for "How Indigenous Skiers are reckoning with climate change and exclusion".
Thumbnail for "Inside the Great Coharie Creek restoration".
Thumbnail for "Covering Indigenous communities in New Mexico".
Thumbnail for "Inside a National Geographic Photo Camp on the Wind River Reservation".
Thumbnail for "For the Chickasaw Nation, planting trees protects both climate and culture".
Thumbnail for "What traditional Okinawan music can teach us about the climate".
Thumbnail for "How bison meat and chokecherry jam are helping with Indigenous food insecurity".
Thumbnail for "Washoe nonprofit hopes to regain land in Tahoe Basin to build cultural and spiritual center".
Thumbnail for "Reporting from Savoonga in the Bering Sea".
Thumbnail for "As climate change threatens subsistence, Savoonga is going from reindeer herding to a red meat industry".
Thumbnail for "How the Miccosukee Tribe is protecting its land".
Thumbnail for "Why Tribes are concerned about the data center boom".
Thumbnail for "A new book exploring Yurok land, water, and life".
Thumbnail for "How climate change is impacting Indigenous people in the Pacific".
Thumbnail for "Making apple cider is a sweet way to reduce bear conflicts".
Thumbnail for "Part 3: Inside the complex fight over critical minerals on Indigenous lands".
Thumbnail for "Part 2: Tribal nations left with few options to resist a nickel refinery due to complex history".
Thumbnail for "Part 1: The fight over tribal sovereignty and a nickel refinery in Oklahoma".
Thumbnail for "Deb Haaland looks to the future".
Thumbnail for "The potential of Indigenous land stewardship amid climate and political challenges".
Thumbnail for "Learning from Karuk burning practices".
Thumbnail for "With reforms in place, California’s Karuk Tribe works to reestablish cultural burning as 'common practice'".
Thumbnail for "How researchers and hunters are documenting traditional walrus knowledge in Alaska".
Thumbnail for "Inside a National Geographic Photo Camp on the Wind River Reservation".
Thumbnail for "Inside the Fight to Protect the Everglades from Climate Change".
Thumbnail for "How the Nez Perce Tribe is fighting to protect salmon and the Columbia River".
Thumbnail for "A new generation of Nez Perce Firefighters steps up".
Thumbnail for "Two Villages in Alaska are looking to the ocean for energy".
Thumbnail for "How the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is protecting its land from rising seas".
Thumbnail for "In the face of rising seas, tribes face difficult decisions".
Thumbnail for "How tribes in Nevada are working to limit climate change’s health impacts".
Thumbnail for "Nevada tribe is bridging the healthcare gap with a mobile clinic that serves 2,000 tribal patients".
Thumbnail for "Understanding Indigenous knowledge and land amid the climate crisis".
Thumbnail for "Indigenous researchers say ancient horse migration could offer modern climate insights".
Thumbnail for "How Indigenous Skiers are reckoning with climate change and exclusion".
Thumbnail for "Inside the bowhead whale census in Alaska".
Thumbnail for "New film highlights Indigenous and Hispanic youth fly fishing camp".
Thumbnail for "Reflecting on Six Months of Indigenous Climate Coverage".
Thumbnail for "How the Washoe Tribe built a business to sustain a firewood bank for their elders".
Thumbnail for "The fight to preserve Indigenous culture in the face of climate change".
Thumbnail for "The connection between the Nimíipuu language and dogbane restoration".
Thumbnail for "What climate change means for Indigenous life in the Arctic".
Thumbnail for "How tribes in the Columbia River Basin are protecting lamprey".
Thumbnail for "How decades of Indigenous activism led to the Klamath Dam removals".
Thumbnail for "Climate change is making whales and salmon more common in the Arctic".
Thumbnail for "How returning buffalo to Indigenous lands can help the climate".
Thumbnail for "New environmental documentary explores Indigenous land and water".
Thumbnail for "Indigenous communities express concern about Uranium transport".
Thumbnail for "How Indigenous heavy metal music is responding to climate change".
Thumbnail for "Inside the Fight to Protect the Everglades from Climate Change".
Thumbnail for "Inside the Fight to Protect the Everglades from Climate Change".
Thumbnail for "In Oklahoma, flooding is threatening the Otoe-Missouria Tribe’s land and traditions".
Thumbnail for "‘The dogs had burnt paws’: How climate change is impacting dogs on reservations (Encore)".
Thumbnail for "‘Way of Life’: Protecting Indigenous lands and culture from invasive species".
Thumbnail for "Part 3: Indigenous people learned to live with fire. What can we learn from their traditions?".
Thumbnail for "Part 2: In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire".
Thumbnail for "Part 1: The Washoe Tribe brings back cultural fire to restore forests, plants amid climate change".
Thumbnail for "Meet the Navajo professor mapping the impact of climate change on Indigenous land".
Thumbnail for "Students explore creeks in Laramie County, connecting to treaty history and water management".
Thumbnail for "The fight to preserve Indigenous culture in the face of climate change".
Thumbnail for "‘The dogs had burnt paws’: How climate change is impacting dogs on reservations".
Thumbnail for "Tribes share their struggles from radiation exposure as they fight for the renewal for RECA".
Thumbnail for "How the Navajo Nation is using mutual aid to connect families to the electric grid".
Thumbnail for "Climate change is putting strain on the 13,000 Navajo families that don’t have electricity".
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