Indigenous

Mayors from Great Lakes cities have united with leaders from First Nations communities to criticize proposed new rules for approving Great Lakes water…

This is the final part of our series An Idea on the Land. Here's where you can find Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. On a chilly morning, 118 autumns ago, the…

It was 1823. The land of Michigan wasn’t yet a state. The indigenous people far outnumbered the white settlers. The Erie Canal hadn’t opened. The flood of…

We are of the dirt.That’s what Willie Jennings believes.“My mother was a gardener,” he says. Each spring, as she got her garden ready, she would spray…