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After Dobbs, Native People Face a Web of Obstacles to Reproductive Care

In addition to external constraints, many tribal governments appear reluctant to actively fight for abortion access.

by Jen Deerinwater

Keep Reading

Bingeworthy Shows from a Red State Star

by Craig D. Lindsey

Indigenous Leaders Fight to Keep Natural Gas Pipelines Off Sacred Lands

by Dylan Baddour

Calling All Marfans: Mystery Lights Inspire Annual Celebration

by Ariel Slick

Oct 27, 2021

A Group Claiming To Be Cherokee Faces Questions About Authenticity

The Mount Tabor Indian Community and a statue they helped erect are examples of serious failures by officials to vet claims to Indigenous nation status, federally recognized tribal leaders say.

by Tristan Ahtone and Graham Lee Brewer

Mar 24, 2021

Captivity Narrative

"News of the World" unsuccessfully tries to redeem the Western at its most harmful.

by Adam Piron

Eli Jackson Cemetery Jan 31, 2019

Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall

Environmentalists, veterans of the Standing Rock protests and Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal members are vowing to stare down the president's bulldozers.

by Gus Bova

Wearing a white suit jacket over a dark sweater, Angela Paxton sits in a chair in the Texas senate with a pensive expression.

Inside this month's print issue

The Rise of Ma and Pa Paxton?

If history repeats itself, the attorney general's wife could prosper even if he goes down in an impeachment trial.

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The Magazine

June 2016 Postcards, Eagle Pass, coal mine protest, Dos Republicas Jun 06, 2016

In the Name of Our Ancestors

Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm.

by Hannah McBride

Representatives from the Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Pacuache Band Coahuiltecan Nation, Carrizo-Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and both the American Indian Movements of Central Texas and Southern California participated in the march against the Dos Republicas low-grade coal mine. Apr 20, 2016

Native Groups Open New Front Against Border Coal Mine

Tribal leaders say binational coal companies are mining on sacred ancestral lands.

by Katerina Barton

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