A documentary focused on the 2003 Unity Ride and Run. This ceremonial journey on horseback and on foot attempted to provide a message of peace and unity in the protection and promotion of traditional practices and the protection of the environment. In addition to these topics, the Unity Ride and Run provides the backdrop for the provision of information on children‘s environmental health and the special circumstances and challenges faced by Aboriginal children. Scroll half way down page for videos.

Environmental activist Winona LaDuke addressed the UN at 18, graduated from Harvard, won human rights awards and even ran for vice-president on Ralph Nader‘s Green Party ticket. While most of America still argues over problems of climate change, poverty and health care, LaDuke is grabbing her hoe and getting to work. And she has no time to be nice about it.

Water contamination and pollution are plaguing Natives‘ lands and are a source of significant health concerns. Native women struggle to address the issues at hand and delve into their traditional relationship with their environment - its shattered past, unfortunate present and hopeful future.

Report by the National Wildlife Federation about the impacts of extreme weather events on tribes. North American Indian Tribes are especially harmed by climate change, as more ecological shifts and more frequent, more extreme weather events occur, a new study concludes. Because Tribes are heavily dependent on natural resources, severe weather events like droughts, floods, wildfires, and snowstorms make tribal communities particularly vulnerable and impact American Indians and Alaska Natives more than they impact the general population.

This factsheet explains traditonal ecological knowledge and its use in partnerships and research.

An interactive Web site that educates middle school and high school teachers and students on how tribes use their traditional culture, values and indigenous knowledge in combination with contemporary science and technologies to tackle environmental issues. The Web site includes videos, quizzes, lesson plans, and a tool for students to document an environmental issue in their own community.

Journal citations from MEDLINE/PubMed

A webinar series designed to translate and disseminate recent findings of previous and current STAR-funded researchers addressing the environmental health and exposure concerns of North American Native subsistence populations. These results may be of particular interest to Agency risk assessors, tribal environmental managers, and tribal health care practitioners.

A tool to create maps of geographic locations within the U.S. that have TRI releases and designated as Superfunds. You can layer your map with censu data, diseases instances and mortalities.

This 2005 report from a series of workshops held in the Arctic provides insight into the observations of Inuit elders regarding the impacts of climate change on traditional practices and on the lives of Inuit.