The Native Resilience Working Group will hold a four-part webinar series in spring 2026 focused on snow drought, water stress, and their impacts on tribal agriculture. Snow drought occurs when winter snowpack is significantly below normal or melts earlier than...
Last month, two members of the Native Resilience project’s Resilience Reporter program attended the 2025 Indigenous Media Conference (IMC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This three-day conference, hosted by the Indigenous Journalists Association, featured sessions on...
The battle for critical minerals on and near tribal homelands As the Wasai Gakidag (September dry grass month) sun dawns over sacred Baboquivari Peak on the Tohono O’odham Nation, the desert begins another day of remembering the Cypress Tohono Mine Site, a...
Pronounced: /teemp-see-la/ The moon when turnip seeds ripened. Our Lakota people believe in thirteen moons and one of them is referred to as Thinpsinla Itkahca-wi. This is one way of saying the month of June. In the lateness of spring before summer began and sometimes...
Join us on Zoom on the third Tuesday of each month to discuss exciting topics and interact with other climate and agriculture professionals from across the country.
On a warm and somewhat stormy evening in July, Native Resilience joined DRI’s Curiosity Lab event, sharing original poetry written by members of our resilience reporter program and inviting the public to write climate-themed poems of their own. The event, From...
The Native Waters on Arid Lands project was recently featured in the 2024 World Drought Atlas, a 175-page hardcover reference book for decision-makers detailing drought impacts and adaptation solutions from around the world. Published by the European Commission Joint...
Detailed future projections for 633 tribal areas focus on agricultural environmental variables Earth's climate future is often discussed in terms of degrees of warming, but for farmers and ranchers, temperature is not the only metric that matters. Other variables such...
Identifying information needs of Native American farmers and ranchers
Enhancing environmental monitoring and data services on Tribal lands
Creating place-based lesson plans for Native teachers
Advancing knowledge of the environment, data practices, sustainability, and more