Dogbane, a hemp plant with white flowers, was once a key part of Nimíipuu, or Nez Perce, culture. Nimíipuu people used the stalks for a variety of purposes, including bags and baskets. But after American ranchers and farmers moved in, the plant was largely eradicated from Nimíipuu lands.

In the Arctic, temperatures are rising nearly four times faster than the rest of the world. For Indigenous people in the Arctic, these shifts can be life-changing. How are they adapting to these changes?

For tribes in the Columbia River Basin, Pacific Lamprey are a key traditional food. But dams and climate change are threatening lamprey populations. Our Living Lands producer Daniel Spaulding spoke to Kanim Moses-Conner, a Lamprey Technician for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation about their lamprey conservation efforts.

Last year, four dams on the Klamath River were removed. For Indigenous nations in Oregon and California, it was a victory decades in the making.

Salmon were once a rare sighting in the Alaskan Arctic. But warming temperatures have made them more common up there, and climate change has also changed whale patterns. These shifts are being watched closely by scientists and Indigenous communities.

The Tanka Fund is an Indigenous led-nonprofit organization based in South Dakota that works with Indigenous ranchers across the country to return buffalo to their lands. This practice is important not just to the various tribes, but also for the environment.

Choctaw citizen and filmmaker Colleen Thurston explores how Indigenous communities have been impacted by natural resource extraction and displacement in her new documentary Drowned Land, which is about the continued fight to safeguard Oklahoma's Kiamichi River.

Uranium is hauled through a 320-mile route that cuts through or goes near many Indigenous communities, including Ute Mountain Ute and Havasupai land, and large parts of the Navajo Nation. Arizona Mirror reporter Shondiin Silversmith spoke to these communities about their concerns and about her experience on the route.

Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding sat down with Taylar Stagnar to talk about her reporting on the connection between Indigenous metal music and climate change. For generations, Indigenous musicians have translated their anger into heavy metal.

In Florida, the Everglades are under growing threat from climate change. Cheyenne Kippenberger, a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, spoke to Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding about the impact storms and rising tides are having on her homelands.

Climate change is causing more floods across the globe. In Oklahoma, that flooding has an outsized impact on Indigenous communities.

Animal shelters nationwide have been full, but the problem is especially acute on reservations that have long had underfunded infrastructure. Heat waves and wildfires are making the problem worse.