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Our Founding Executive Director, Jen Deerinwater, kicks off this year’s Indigenous horror special in The Magazine with three recommendations and a look at why Indigenous storytelling matters in horror.
Inti Raymi honors the sun, the winter solstice, and the earth, celebrating the reciprocal relationship between people and the land
Beadwork, or beading, is a longstanding artistic tradition of the Ojibwe people, who call glass beads manidoominens, or little spirit berries.
A Crushing Colonialism interview with award-winning bead artist Joy Tonepahhote on continuing the beading tradition and preserving Kiowa culture
Nagra, or chandi ke paposh, the Urdu term for silver footwear, is one of the most distinctive yet rapidly vanishing artisanal traditions in “Lucknow”
For Indigenous peoples, games like ullamaliztli carry history, ceremony, and community traditions from one generation to the next
Naomi Lemunga tells the story of being born and raised in Maasai land on the plains beneath Mount Kilimanjaro in Northern Tanzania
Native Hawaiians show off their #LoleOKaLā for the annual Merrie Monarch Festival — a celebration of Hawaiian culture through hana noʻeau, mele, oli and hula.
There is a particular kind of violence that comes with being spoken of only in the past tense. For generations, Indigenous cultures across the “United States” and beyond have been described by outsiders as “vanishing,” deemed as artifacts to be salvaged before they disappear entirely.
The United Nations General Assembly Hall was abuzz with conversation when a loud clacking sound began, followed shortly by singing. Katisha Star Rose Paul sang a Coast Salish Paddle Song her family wrote, while she led a line of Indigenous people into the Hall as the cultural invocation to begin the 25th Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
On April 21, 2026, at the 25th session of the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City, Jean Whitehorse (Diné) recounted her experience with forced sterilization and called for a global study and a statement from the UN against these practices.
Midwifery in Indigenous communities in “Colombia” has historically been a practice sustained mainly by women, though not limited to them. “In the past, there wasn’t a specific figure responsible for attending births; rather, it was shared knowledge within the community.