Journalism Site Dedicates a Limited Series to Indian Land News

The popular "Vox" journalism website gives a voice to indigenous tribes by highlighting their solutions to climate catastrophes.

Illustrations by Alexandra Bowman for Vox

Varies stories have been popping-up on my feed of indigenous tribes being returned abandoned land that was dried up, lacking nutrients, destroyed by capitalistic cities.

Along my venture into the "Land Back Movement" occurring across North and South America, Vox journalism website was discovered as a secret treasure full of detailed, heart-warming accounts of North American Indian land news.

In this recent article Tribal lands were stolen. What happens when those ancestral territories are returned? from November, 2024, they literally give a voice to indigenous people's with the in-depth article written by Joseph Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe member and long-time writer.

In this realistic news story, Joseph Lee describes the brutal oppression and violence on American Indians in order to suppress them and steal their homeland. He describes the complete origins of the "Land Back movement", its successes, and how the concept not only supports the return of wrongfully-taken indigenous lands, but also the revival of natural ecosystems amidst the climate crisis.

The article checks-in with real scientists on the case, such as Jason Brough, a Shoshone native American indigenous tribe member and PhD student in anthropology and environmental policy at the University of Maine. The story continues with a delve into all of the relevant North American-located tribe movements working on Land Back and restoration projects for their regions' ecosystems. The story recounts in-depth details of each region's environmental triumphs throughout their Land Back projects.

This is only one of the articles of Vox's limited-series that began in October dedicated to enlightening the public on the success stories of the Land Back movement and indigenous tribes' climate solution skills. Some articles are written by devoted climate/community-connection writers and editors, while the majority of stories hand the microphone to indigenous members, writers, and Land Back activists themselves. Vox's devotion to positive journalism, minority support, and true community give-back is un-mistakeable in this series "Changing With the Climate".

According to Vox the series...

"...has not set out to mythologize Indigenous communities with bespoke, unapproachable, or mystic traditional practices and solutions — but instead underscores humility as a throughline. Indigenous people realize we cannot bend the world to our human will. We’re far better and more resilient when we tune in and lean into changes when possible."

Read Vox's article about the limited series here, and continue supporting the positive news, good vibes, and getting back to nature 🍃

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