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Gearing up for the fight against a new climate enemy.
Jessica Kutz High Country News Sep 2020 20min Permalink
How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.
Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Aug 2020 30min Permalink
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone High Country News Apr 2020 25min Permalink
Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.
Sarah Gilman High Country News Mar 2020 15min Permalink
How a burglary, social media and politics led to a Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman being bullied out of office.
Jane C. Hu High Country News Feb 2020 20min Permalink
For years, the clients of a Colorado funeral home kept their loved ones’ cremated remains. Then the FBI called.
Elena Saavedra Buckley High Country News Jun 2019 25min Permalink
How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.
Paige Blankenbuehler High Country News Apr 2019 20min Permalink
On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.
Hal Herring High Country News Mar 2016 20min Permalink
The woman who moved to a ghost town.
Sarah Gilman High Country News Sep 2018 20min Permalink
How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.
Tay Wiles High Country News Sep 2018 15min Permalink
Drought, dread, and family in the American Southwest.
Cally Carswell High Country News Aug 2018 20min Permalink
A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.
Julian Brave NoiseCat High Country News Feb 2018 20min Permalink
Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.
Julia O'Malley High Country News Jul 2017 10min Permalink
A hunt for maple poachers in Western Washington.
Ben Goldfarb High Country News May 2017 20min Permalink
The lingering psychological effects of being one of the greatest crime reporters of all time.
Scott Carrier High Country News Oct 2014 20min Permalink
A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.
George Sibley High Country News Sep 2010 10min Permalink