Stephanie Woodard - In These Times

Stephanie Woodard is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes on human rights and culture. Her book American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and Inclusion is based on more than 20 years of reporting in Indigenous communities. She was an editor at major consumer magazines for more than two decades.

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.

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FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

Mining Companies Strike Gold by Destroying Public Lands

Indigenous tribes sound the alarm about a mining boom

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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

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Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent

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Sioux Tribes Are Protecting Their People from Pandemic. The Governor Is Trying to Stop Them

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‘To Preserve the Future of Our Past’: Tribes Work for World Heritage Designation of Ohio Earthworks

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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.

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Removing the Stain of Wounded Knee: Members of Congress Move to Rescind Medals of Honor

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Native Americans Take Power

The new wave of indigenous elected officials.

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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.

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Digital Smoke Signals in the 2018 Midterms

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20,000 Native Voters for North Dakota?

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Court Backs Navajo Candidate, Blasts Utah County

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Navajo Candidate Kicked Off Utah Ballot Files Suit

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Plant a Tree: A Native Community Takes a Step to Reverse Climate Change

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Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All

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Civil-Rights Complaint Details Horrific—Even Deadly—Discrimination Against Native Kids

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Reprieve for an Ancient Site: A Mining Company and a Tribe Find a Way to Work Together

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Building on Standing Rock, Native Americans Lead the Way at the People’s Climate March in D.C.

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Voices from the Movement for Native Lives

Advocates talk about the country's "silent, comfortable genocide."

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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.

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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.

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Return to Sender: Navajo Voters Reject Mail-in Voting

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Native American Graphic Novel Selected As Among Year’s Best

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Eve of Destruction: Bureau of Land Management Sacrifices Native Site to Mining Group

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Going Postal: How All-Mail Voting Thwarts Navajo Voters

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In Rare Move, the Justice Department Drafts a Bill of Its Own—To Ensure Native Voting Rights

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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.

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