Is water being taken for granted? To the Shoshone Bannock tribe water is a commodity for people and culture but it also serves as a spiritual necessity. Take a second to explore what water means to the native people of Wyoming and the history of water rights in the area.

“Trace” by Lauret Savoy is a story of tracing back one’s origins, ancestry, relation to the land, and the significance of being a citizen in a nation. As a text, it stood out because of the extensive accounts of the loss of indigenous spaces and their influence on what we have now. Tracing the actual relation to many areas, Savoy found that “More than half of the United States’ names originated, in some form, from Indigenous languages” (76). A vast amount of it is masked, by the European, Anglo-American-sounding tongues and not many are aware, and I appreciated the call to notice such influence indigenous elements still have, despite the agenda to erase it. As well as the internal strife and journey Savoy went through to discover herself as an individual, especially towards the land that she inhabits.

Jane Goodall , primatologist and conservationist, says the only real difference between humans and chimps is sophisticated language. Find out how her findings can lead to a new world.

Read this article to learn more about the importance of environmental justice both in the workplace and at home. David Michaels and Robert Bullard address the unequal impacts of the environmental pollution on historically oppressed groups.

Hear the podcast or read the full article on how environmental justice takes a toll on people of color by Lariah Edwards.