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2 months ago | 
hcn.org | Alleen Brown |Clayton Aldern |Maria Rose
This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here by permission. Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job, doing carpentry. “I love anything outdoors,” he said. “I’m happy I’m not locked up.” A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, Amos, age 53, grew up with the snow-capped Rocky Mountains set like a painting behind his childhood home in Ethete, Wyoming, on the Wind River reservation.
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2 months ago | 
hcn.org | Alleen Brown |Clayton Aldern |Maria Rose |Nick Estes
State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
gijn.org | Hanna Duggal |Tristan Ahtone |Maria Rose
Overlooking St. Mary’s Lake on the Flathead Reservation, in western Montana, the mountainous terrain is interrupted by a clearing of trees from state-managed logging. The 640-acre cut of land contrasts starkly to the neighboring forests, where tribally managed timber operations hold fidelity to the ecological landscape, mimicking fire scars or the natural contours of watershed divides.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
kalw.org | Malihe Razazan |Maria Rose
On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Misplaced Trust, an 18-month long Grist investigation that reveals how stolen Indigenous land given to universities is often used for fossil fuel production or mining. Some universities are making billions off of these practices. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, allowing the federal government to take land from Indigenous peoples and give it to states for the creation of public colleges known as land-grant universities.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Anna V. Smith |Maria Rose
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Anna V. Smith |Maria Rose
This story was originally published by High Country News and is a collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the reservation, the land was mostly cleared of trees after state-managed logging operations.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
sudrum.com | Anna Smith |Maria Rose
By Anna V. Smith & Maria Parazo Rose This story is a collaboration between Grist and High Country News. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the reservation, the land was mostly cleared of trees after state-managed logging operations.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
hcn.org | Anna V. Smith |Maria Rose
This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the reservation, the land was mostly cleared of trees after state-managed logging operations.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thepulp.org | Anna Smith |Maria Rose
This story was originally published by High Country News in collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the reservation, the land was mostly cleared of trees after state-managed logging operations.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
buffalosfire.com | Anna Smith |Maria Rose
How schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations. This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine.
