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Yurok Tribe member Pergish Carlson started the Blue Creek Guide Service in 2004.
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Cahuilla Artist Gerald Clarke Jr. honors his Native American heritage in his work.
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Suppressed for over a century, indigenous cultural burning is still practiced today.
“200 years ago, before the white man came, it was green. Our ditches lifted the groundwater up."
Modern society harms the desert in many ways, but the most serious threat is ignorance.
In order to understand the desert and the peoples who lived there from time immemorial, you have to understand what deserts lack most.
In 2000, environmentalists blew a chance to support traditional Native practices restoring the landscape of Death Valley.
If we see Native people as expert colleagues instead of historical figures, we all stand a greater chance of working together.
Enter for a chance to win tickets to the reception/premiere screening/panel on Tending the Wild on January 26 at 7pm at The Autry.
Native artisans face the challenge of protecting threatened bird species while preserving their cultural traditions.
The concept of wilderness as unpopulated land assumes Native people are either subhuman or nonexistent. It needs to be rethought.
To call Native peoples the "original environmentalists" is to mischaracterize their actual relationship to the land.
