Category: Resilience Stories

An interview with multi-media storyteller Kaiya Laguardia-Yonamine about connecting local stories from Okinawa to Hawaii to Ghana. By tylee nez.

A conversation on water, storytelling, and leadership with Kirin Vicenti-Lacapa, tribal water comissioner and mucician from Jicarilla Apache Nation

Join host, tylee nez, to explore the communities, climate, hydrology, and history of the Colorado River Basin through a new podcast, Listening to the Ripples, featuring Indigenous matriarchs living in the basin and advocating for water sovereignty. 

Just as Indigenous peoples once fought to protect their lands from railroad tracks and gold mines, today’s tribes face a new wave of environmental injustice. Story by Mary Cathleen Wilson.

Reflections from a rafting trip on the San Juan River, a snowmelt-fed river flowing into the desert, for Indigenous women to reconnect with ancestral waterways and share generational knowledge. By tylee nez.

Arizona Daily Star | June 20, 2025 | Mary Cathleen Wilson | View Original Article Note: This...

Author Shecota Rae Nalwood Nez explores the history and future of the Santa Cruz River in a changing climate.

The Tohono O’odham Himdag (way of living in the world) has guided our actions since time immemorial. It also holds valuable lessons for the future. By Mary C. Wilson.