Above: Emily McDonald-Williams, Director of STEM Education program at DRI, welcomes educators to the session on Indigenous Storytelling in STEAM. Credit: Tsvetelina Stefanova/DRI. Last month at the Nevada Museum of Art, a few hundred K-12 teachers from across Nevada...
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...
A conversation on storytelling and leadership with Kirin Vicenti-Lacapa, tribal water commissioner and musician from the Jicarilla Apache Nation Above: Kirin Vicenti-Lacapa believes that art and music hold great power. “Art changes culture, culture changes...
A podcast about centering and honoring our relationship with water through the care and leadership of Indigenous matriarchs. Above: The cover art for Listening to the Ripples podcast. The background is the sky blanketed across my homeland, the Navajo...
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.
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...
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...
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