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#Indigenous food sovereignty in a single image:
A shrink-wrapped elk tenderloin with a sticker that says "not for sale".
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Inside a Southeast Portland bar bathroom, one veteran Portland police officer said he stumbled on a sandwich bag of cocaine and began using the drug “off and on” for months before the Police Bureau found out.
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Poster for the film Begotten, which, like the movie, is a bunch of incomprehensible humanesque shadows that spawn more questions than answers.
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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RIP GOAT

Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.
1970s black and white photo of Robert Redford leaning against a brick wall wearing sunglasses and reading High Country News magazine.
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Wiki screenshot: "Bertha Parker Pallan died in 1978, aged 71. Her gravestone simply reads "Mrs. Iron Eyes Cody"."
April 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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One more nugget from this story -- a reminder that tribal sovereignty is not a partisan issue. Sometimes republicans are more proactive and supportive than dems.

(Also worth noting that Rep. Cole is Chickasaw.)
Paragraph hilight: House Appropriations Chair and Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole secured reversals of lease terminations in Oklahoma, including the Indian Health Services Office in Oklahoma City, calling it “common sense.”
March 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Bar graph showing freelance journalists killed worldwide: five in 2020, five in 2021, twelve in 2022, seventeen in 2023, and 43 in 2024.
February 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Two-spirits and other #Indigenous people remember what a "patriotic education" looks like.
Tiny handcuffs from an Indian boarding school. Archival photo of Indigenous women dressed like white women and standing at ironing boards, from the Carlisle Indian Boarding School.
January 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#Indigenous #NewMexico
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @RepTeresaLF ICE agents are harassing and threatening Native Americans. If this has happened to you, call my office at (202) 225-6190. Trump said you can tell bad immigrants by what they “look” like. Tribal members look like the first Americans. Stop harassing them.
January 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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(Spoiler: the state probably leases them out for fossil fuel extraction, timber, mining, cattle grazing, etc.)
Bar graph called "Active acreage: known uses of state trust lands on reservations, in acres. Uses range from Mining (at nearly 500 thousand acres), to fossil fuels, grazing, recreation, conservation, renewables, and at less than 50 thousand acres, timber and water.
September 16, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Unbelieveably surreal that this is #journalism right now.

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Two tweets. One, a journalist saying "Feels like my entire feed is journalists getting laid off today. This is devastating. How are we going to address climate change, war crimes, and everything else going on in the world without people who pay attention to them?" The second tweet from a local TV news channel. It's a picture of a Wendys sign with the headline "The fast-food giant unveiled an all-new breakfast burrito Monday the breakfast burrito comes packed with the following: Two fresh eggs. Six strips of oven-baked applewood smoked bacon. Seasoned breakfast potatoes. Two slices of American cheese."
January 23, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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I'm happy to announce that today the staff of High Country News have launched a union! We're calling on HCN leadership to voluntarily recognize us. You can support by sharing, posting about it, and signing our letter of support here: hcnunion.org/support/
Circular, black and white logo with a linocut illustration of three mountain goats encircled by bold lettering that says HIGH COUNTRY NEWS UNION.
January 10, 2024 at 2:32 AM