Features

An enormous open pit gold mine—now abandoned—is poisoning water flowing into the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana. Aaniiih Nakoda College, with support from the National Science Foundation, is establishing a research and policy center to monitor the impact and promote sound water policy.

Many people know that the American Indian College Fund provides financial support to students. Less well known are programs that promote undergraduate research and support faculty scholarship.

Tribal colleges are using solar, wind, and geothermal energy to power their campuses and training students for work in Green energy industries. Stronger economies and healthier environments will be the result.

Tribal researchers are studying the impact of mining and oil drilling on reservation lands—and working to repair the damage done

United Tribes Technical College’s new intertribal research center will promote food, energy, and water sustainability within Native communities across the northern Plains

Tribes sit on vast reserves of oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium. Is this a blessing or a curse?

By Katie Scarlett Brandt

The meaning and relevance of indigenous economic theory

By Ronald L. Trosper

Teaching agriculture at the intersection of western and Native science

By Melanie Lenart