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Beverly Little Thunder and Pam Alexander at the Annual Moondance Ceremony. Photo credit: Karen Anderson, August 2025.
Beverly Little Thunder: A Legacy of Love and Activism for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities
November 30, 2025
Beverly Little Thunder: A Legacy of Love and Activism for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities

Beverly Little Thunder was a fierce advocate, mentor, and source of unwavering support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Throughout her life, she championed the rights, visibility, and dignity of Indigenous queer and Two-Spirit individuals, creating spaces where their voices could be heard and celebrated.

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A mature Milicia excelsa tree, known as the incarnation tree of King Kpassè Loko — founder of the historic town and sacred forest of Kpassè in Ouidah, Benin — standing tall in the surrounding forest under soft daylight.
Vodún Is Saving Benin’s Biodiversity and Culture
November 30, 2025
Vodún Is Saving Benin’s Biodiversity and Culture

In the heart of southern Benin’s Bohouezoun Sacred Forest, Vodún priest Gilbert Kakpo stands beside a huge sacred tree, one of many believed to be the home of spirits. The forest, with its thick canopy and cool shade, is revered by local communities as a sanctuary of healing and protection.

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Luna and Manuela from Colombia hold their scarves symbolizing Indigenous resistance, as the Sumud Flotilla sails in the background. One of the scarves reads: “We resist the amnesia of collective memory. We keep fighting.” Photo credit: Carlos Osorio, September 2025.
Love, Land, and Revolution
November 30, 2025
Love, Land, and Revolution

Liberation is not a solitary event, but a living ecosystem—a deep, cultural, and political terrain from which an unyielding will to be free takes root. We write as a Palestinian and Indigenous couple, navigating this shared ground. Our aim is not to equate our distinct struggles, but to trace the parallel roots of our resistance and to sow the seeds of a collective vision for liberation.

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Board games are displayed on a white tablerunner on a medium dark wood surface, with a closed wooden blinds window in the background. From left to right: "Burn the Fort: A game of Indigenous Resistance," a dark-colored box with a burning fort illustration. "Coyote & Crow," a vibrant textbook featuring two Indigenous characters. "Wolves," a large white box with a red circle and two Coast Salish-style wolf heads. Three smaller card games: "Indigenous History, Indigenous Rights" and "Cards Against Colonialism: A Party Game For Indigenous Peoples” and “SaQuu (Cherokee Solitaire)”.
Game Changers Are Changemakers
November 30, 2025
Game Changers Are Changemakers

The year was 2005. I was in high school, working nearly full-time at a roller skating rink. Reeling from the backlash of being open and exploring my identity publicly, I was forced back into the closet. I found my essential escape, a constant refuge, in stories—in books, comics, shows, and especially in games.

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Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye stands inside her art gallery, the Nike Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria. She is dressed in rich indigo blue Adire attire, looking glamorous and hopeful. The background is softly faded, with canvas artworks hanging on the walls, highlighting the vibrant and creative atmosphere of the gallery she founded.
Changing Through the Arts
November 30, 2025
Changing Through the Arts

When I learned that Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye was honored with the AMIAF Artconomy Award at the AMIAF March 2025 event—an annual celebration that recognizes artists, innovators, and cultural leaders shaping Nigeria’s creative economy—I couldn’t help but recall Shakespeare’s words: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Yet, her greatness is not a birthright; it is a product of her resilience, ingenuity, and compassion.

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Rachel Arlene Redeye Porter stands in a blue ribbon skirt holding a handmade sign that says, “ I will not erase myself,” written in purple writing. She is standing in front of the side doors to her elementary school. She is in color, and the background is in gray scale.
Indigenous Enough: Rematriating Indigenous Identity Today
September 15, 2025
Indigenous Enough: Rematriating Indigenous Identity Today

As Haudenosaunee people, we define the Indigenous women-led movement of rematriation as “Returning the Sacred to the Mother.” Across Turtle Island (so-called “North America”) and around the world, Indigenous women are reclaiming traditional teachings and fostering healing within our families, clan systems, Nations, and the world.

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Country of the Majority
September 15, 2025
Country of the Majority

“When I say I’m Nigerian…” begins Pendo George, an artisan from Igarra in Edo State, in western Nigeria, “the response is always the same: ‘Yoruba? Hausa? Igbo?'” He shrugs. “Then they look away—because I’m none of those.” His words capture a quiet ache that ripples across the country: the experience of being unseen, unheard, and unacknowledged in a country with over 400 ethnic groups, but one narrative.

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a photo of a Chilocco Indian School building abandoned against a blue clear sky.
Identity Crisis: A Legacy of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools
September 15, 2025
Identity Crisis: A Legacy of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools

My grandmother passed away when I was 16 years old. It was a devastating loss and my first real grief. I was close to her, and her death was unexpected.

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Two people sit on a carpeted floor in a cozy, warmly lit room with multicolored lights reflecting on the walls. One of the persons, named Annie, is wearing beige grey shalwar kameez, and smiles gently while her partner, dressed in white, holds her hand affectionately.
Dancing between Life and Death: An Afghan Trans Woman’s Life in Pakistan
May 25, 2025
Dancing between Life and Death: An Afghan Trans Woman’s Life in Pakistan

Annie’s residence is humble. Two mattresses are placed on the carpeted floor of her room, which is also used as a living room and a kitchen. Annie prepares tea, making her home welcoming and cozy.

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A light-skinned Indigenous trans man with a shaved head stands in his living room in a red and black plaid shirt. A guitar is on the wall, and a lamp is behind him. Photo credit: Theo Jean Cuthand, 2025
The Queer Pendulum
May 25, 2025
The Queer Pendulum

It was 1993 and I had just realized I was queer. At the time, I thought I was a lesbian, and so that’s how I identified. I was in ninth grade at a high school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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A photo of brothers Spotted-Eagle Baez-Smith and Eagle Talon Baez (Mohawk/Navajo/Coahuiltecan). Curcie illustrates the importance of healing through the eagle dance. Photo credit: Judy Campa, June 2023.
Indigenous Spirituality: Resilience in Decolonizing Mental Health
March 4, 2025
Indigenous Spirituality: Resilience in Decolonizing Mental Health

As a psychologist and researcher working across Indian country for the past 15 years, notwithstanding significant historical trauma and ongoing systemic challenges, Indigenous people in the so-called “United States” demonstrate remarkable resilience, often drawing strength from their deep connection to land, culture, community, and spiritual practices, even while reporting high rates of psychological distress due to the impacts of colonization and dispossession.

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A cross-section of new initiates during Itefa (Ifá initiation) at a secret, undisclosed location. Photo credit: Olaifa Apapoodu, December 17, 2024.
Reviving Ifá’s Heritage
March 4, 2025
Reviving Ifá’s Heritage

Two years ago, when I heard that the Nigerian gospel artist Gloria Doyle had left Christianity to become an Ifá priestess, I quickly called her and requested an interview. During the interview, Doyle said, “God told me there is a better way for me to connect to him . . . You do not need to go through the pastors to see God, but if religion is warm, you feel your inner peace when practicing it. I cannot leave a place where I find peace to a place where there is war and bitterness; you stick there where you find peace.”

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