Fort McKay First Nation, a reservation in northern Canada, is home to nearly 400 Cree, Dene and other indigenous people. In the 1950s and ‘60s, petroleum operations started to surround the community, extracting oil from the nearby tar sands.
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Plowing Through Sacred Sites
In the middle of the night in fall 2013, California Department of Transportation workers dug into the earth to construct a new highway bypass in Willits. According to federal law, the local Pomo people had a right to send tribal monitors there, but they allegedly were barred from the nighttime construction.
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One Year at Standing Rock
One year later, one of the first people to set up camp at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation reflects on the protests and how the movement has changed the course of her life.
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The Land Beneath the Lake
A woman remembers what life was like before her family was relocated from its ancestral home and her tribe from its most fertile farmland.
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A look back at the stand at Standing Rock
As protesters are evacuated from camps near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, we’re taking a look back at what drew tens of thousands of people there in the first place.
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In Sickness and in Health
While VT Halter continues to secure multimillion-dollar contracts from the U.S. government, former crane operator John Williams Jr. struggles to get through the day following a life-altering work accident.
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Catfight
“Catfight” examines the struggle over how to deal with America’s stray cats.
Posted inFood for 9 Billion, Food Security, Sustainability
Venezuelan life: Eating garbage. Waiting in lines. Sharing 1 egg a day
Extreme hunger is tearing apart Venezuela. We sent a team there to document the conditions that sent a million people into the streets to protest President Nicolás Maduro.
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CIR launches 2 new opportunities for women in film
The Center for Investigative Reporting is launching a new initiative to help promote gender parity in film and investigative journalism.
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‘Batalla en la Frontera’ examines Border Patrol’s use of deadly force
Our documentary, co-produced with Telemundo and MSNBC, investigates deadly force used by Border Patrol agents and how the U.S. government has failed to hold the agency accountable.