Tristan Ahtone
@tahtone.bsky.social
Kiowa. Editor-at-large at Grist. "Fancy and highbrow."
Congratulations to @grahambrewer.bsky.social on becoming a 2027 Nieman Fellow. His coverage of Indigenous peoples and tribal nations has been some of the most important journalism in the country. Glad someone noticed. The @apnews.com's loss is Harvard's gain. 👀
The forum’s focus on Indigenous health comes as a new study argues that U.N. agencies’ fragmented approach — addressing health, environment, and land rights through separate mandates — has “consistently failed Indigenous Peoples.” grist.org/indigenous/i...
Indigenous health can't be separated from environmental health, leaders tell UN
At Permanent Forum, leaders connect climate change, mining, and deforestation to mounting health crisis and demand coordinated approach to land rights.
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At the United Nations this week, Indigenous leaders and advocates are asking: What will it take to force governments to comply with international court rulings that mandate climate action? grist.org/indigenous/a...
At the UN, Indigenous leaders tackle how to enforce global climate court rulings
The gap between what international courts say and what governments do is stark.
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Hundreds of delegates are arriving at the United Nations this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. But they arrive against an increasingly hostile global backdrop. grist.org/indigenous/w...
War, climate change, and AI: What's at stake at this year's UN Indigenous forum
Delegates are arriving in New York this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. Amid other challenges, the U.S. has made it increasingly difficult for delegates to secure visas t...
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INA coverage will be driven by a dedicated, on-the-ground reporting team from Whakaata Māori, @indiginews.bsky.social, @Mongabay.com, and @Grist.org. The team will report directly from UN headquarters, bringing frontline perspectives to readers from the global convening. grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist kicks off 5th year of collaborative reporting for the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Seven newsrooms based in the US, Canada, and New Zealand will work together to cover a range of issues, including the impact of armed conflicts and critical mineral mining.
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Do yourself a favor and check out this series.
MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW—Part 1 of many from the series 'Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes,' recorded at an Oct 2025 gathering on key Qs like: What would it mean were our storytelling to approach climate change not so much as a problem, but as a symptom? 📻 LISTEN: pod.fo/e/3e3a56
Enbridge will pay Wisconsin sheriffs for riot suits, training & hours spent policing protests against the controversial Line 5 reroute through an uncapped, secretive deal approved by two counties as Indigenous-led resistance grows. grist.org/indigenous/e...
Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.
The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.
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🦷 Hey reporters, the Indian Health Service announced it will end the use of mercury-containing dental amalgam in its facilities by 2027, transitioning to mercury-free restorative materials across IHS and tribal dental programs. I've got related FOIAs. Read on. www.hhs.gov/press-room/i...
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Democracy may die in darkness, but America was built in daylight, and in America, oppression and injustice don’t need shadows to thrive — they need champions. grist.org/indigenous/b...
Billie Eilish, stolen land, and the climate cost of America’s dispossession
Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization, it could save it.
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“Language is a matter of climate justice.” Most of the world is excluded from the information needed to understand how climate change is reshaping the planet, including people in positions of power. grist.org/indigenous/c...
Climate news is written in a language most people can't understand
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.
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Trump’s threats have refocused attention on America's relationship with Indigenous peoples: Greenland is 90% Inuit and has maintained its traditions, language and land despite centuries of colonial rule. It's viewed as a model of Indigenous self-determination & sovereignty. grist.org/global-indig...
Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that.
Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.
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A social media & phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices & their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
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Trump said that the tribe “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected,” after the Miccosukee's July lawsuit challenging the construction of “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. grist.org/indigenous/t...
The Miccosukee Tribe blocked Alligator Alcatraz. Then Trump blocked a bill to return their land.
After the tribe sued to stop an immigration detention center, the White House vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded Miccosukee land and environmental stewardship.
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We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
New research builds on #MisplacedTrust and #LandGrabU by exploring & analyzing historical and ongoing land and resource theft from Indigenous peoples for the benefit of institutions of higher education: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
More Than Morrill: The Intertwined History of Indian Land Dispossession, Arizona Statehood, and University Enrichment
<p>Through the federal government’s university land-grant programs, which began with the Morrill Act in 1862 and continue today, Congress has systematically all
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The @indigenousja.bsky.social and the UC Berkeley Center for Indigenous Law & Justice are offering a free, three-hour webinar designed to strengthen reporting in federal Indian law tomorrow. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
Federal Indian law is shaping some of the biggest stories in America. Most journalists don’t know they’re covering it. - Poynter
A webinar from UC Berkeley and the Indigenous Journalists Association offers reporters essential grounding in federal Indian law
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Want to go to the UN’s biggest gathering of Indigenous peoples? Here’s how. Applications are open until October 31 to receive funding to attend major Indigenous gatherings in New York and Geneva next year. grist.org/indigenous/w... #Indigenous #UN #Climate #Tribes #Environment
Want to go to the UN’s biggest gathering of Indigenous peoples? Here’s how.
Applications are open until October 31 to receive funding to attend major Indigenous gatherings in New York and Geneva next year.
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Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations are suing social media giants for their role in the growing mental health crisis for Indigenous youth. The nations argue that using social platforms can replace human interaction and give rise to cyber-bullying, body dysmorphia & suicide. www.kosu.org/news/2025-09...
Chickasaw, Choctaw Nations wage legal fights against social media companies for roles in mental health crisis
The Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations are suing social media giants for their role in the growing mental health crisis for Indigenous young people.
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New UN Commission of Inquiry report reinforces the consensus among experts around Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. As the Israeli govt escalates its assault on Gaza City & destroys Gaza’s remaining civilian infrastructure, states have a duty under Genocide Convention to act.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo agoIsrael has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Understanding federal Indian law means better reporting under the Trump administration. We want to know what issue(s) you're most interested in. Click here: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...
My new massive piece on the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial includes never-reported details of the settlement ET offered GP. It would have thrown the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe under the bus. For @grist.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social grist.org/project/indi...
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?
The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.
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In March, a jury ordered Greenpeace to pay $666 million to the companies behind the Dakota Access pipeline. But Indigenous leaders, water protectors, activists, and court records agree: Greenpeace played a bit part in the Standing Rock movement, at best. grist.org/project/indi...
Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?
The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.
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The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park. grist.org/indigenous/a...
A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention center
The Miccosuki tribe alleges that both state and federal agents failed to conduct an environmental review of what the camp would to the Everglades.
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Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction. It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️
Amid a current trade war with China, proponents for Oak Flat are scratching their heads at conflicting national security interests: “Resolution Copper is a major threat to U.S. national security given China’s significant financial influence over BHP and Rio Tinto.” grist.org/indigenous/o...
The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
An Indigenous religious site in Arizona has been granted a delay, as advocates hope to stop Trump's plan to turn it into a copper mine.
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More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California, including the lower Blue Creek watershed, have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. grist.org/indigenous/i...
In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.
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Mining, including the extraction of transition minerals, leads every sector in attacks on environmental & human rights defenders. 40% of those killed were Indigenous, a reflection of the fact that more than half of all critical minerals lie in or near Indigenous land. grist.org/indigenous/i...
Indigenous land defenders face rising threats amid global push for critical minerals
The past decade has seen “a consistent, sustained pattern" of violence against Indigenous people who oppose corporate human rights abuses.
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The Trump administration's recent cuts to USAID are putting Indigenous peoples at risk. In the Amazon, for instance, no USAID support may lead to a resurgence of the cocaine market, increased threats to Indigenous land and potentially violent challenges to human rights. grist.org/indigenous/c...
Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Without U.S. funding, Indigenous communities in Peru and elsewhere face increasing threats to their land, livelihoods, and human rights.
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From @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social & @jessieboulard.bsky.social for @grist.org & @indiginews.bsky.social: More than 50 First Nations depend on approximately 3,700 miles of winter roads. There are no paved roads connecting these Indigenous communities to the nearest cities. 🧵 grist.org/indigenous/i...
Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they're disappearing.
Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.
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I had no clue Pope Francis was as involved in the Indigenous world as much as he was. This story looks at his legacy and the direction of the church under Pope Leo XIV. grist.org/internationa...
What Pope Leo means for global climate action and colonialism
Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Pope Leo do the same?
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