Stephanie Woodard is an award-winning human-rights reporter and author of American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion.
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Unequal Before the Law
Native Americans serve astoundingly longer prison sentences—because they are Native.
Stephanie Woodard
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Shaky Ground: How the United States Uses the Law to Steal Indigenous Land
A review of Peter d’Errico’s Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples, an indictment of a legal system with the unflinching goal of stealing as much land as possible.
Stephanie Woodard
FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute
Mining Companies Strike Gold by Destroying Public Lands
Indigenous tribes sound the alarm about a mining boom
Stephanie Woodard
DispatchRural America
Native Voters Could Swing the 2020 Election—If They’re Able to Vote
Menominee tribal citizens are working to make Native votes count in Wisconsin
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Sioux Tribes Are Protecting Their People from Pandemic. The Governor Is Trying to Stop Them
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
‘To Preserve the Future of Our Past’: Tribes Work for World Heritage Designation of Ohio Earthworks
Stephanie Woodard
Dispatch
At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice
With Indian country’s electoral power growing, presidential hopefuls pledged to honor treaties and enact structural change.
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Removing the Stain of Wounded Knee: Members of Congress Move to Rescind Medals of Honor
Stephanie Woodard
Feature
Native Americans Take Power
The new wave of indigenous elected officials.
Stephanie Woodard
Feature
Native Americans Scored Big Election Wins in Washington State and Beyond
On Tuesday, Puyallup tribe members celebrated a landmark police accountability initiative, as well as Native victories nationwide.
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Digital Smoke Signals in the 2018 Midterms
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
20,000 Native Voters for North Dakota?
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Court Backs Navajo Candidate, Blasts Utah County
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Navajo Candidate Kicked Off Utah Ballot Files Suit
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Plant a Tree: A Native Community Takes a Step to Reverse Climate Change
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Civil-Rights Complaint Details Horrific—Even Deadly—Discrimination Against Native Kids
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Reprieve for an Ancient Site: A Mining Company and a Tribe Find a Way to Work Together
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Building on Standing Rock, Native Americans Lead the Way at the People’s Climate March in D.C.
Stephanie Woodard
Feature
Voices from the Movement for Native Lives
Advocates talk about the country's "silent, comfortable genocide."
Stephanie Woodard
InvestigationGoodman Institute
Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group
These deaths are rarely covered in the media, but now, Native groups are organizing for justice in a growing Native Lives Matter movement.
Stephanie Woodard
Feature
How the U.S. Government Is Helping Corporations Plunder Native Land
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is charged with protecting Native interests. Instead, it's letting corporations grab their land for pennies.
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Return to Sender: Navajo Voters Reject Mail-in Voting
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Native American Graphic Novel Selected As Among Year’s Best
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Eve of Destruction: Bureau of Land Management Sacrifices Native Site to Mining Group
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
Going Postal: How All-Mail Voting Thwarts Navajo Voters
Stephanie Woodard
Rural America
In Rare Move, the Justice Department Drafts a Bill of Its Own—To Ensure Native Voting Rights
Stephanie Woodard
InvestigationGoodman Institute
The Missing Native Vote
Nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, American Indians still don't have equal access to the ballot box.
Stephanie Woodard
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