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Reflections from the 2025 Indigenous Media Conference

A recap of the IMC conference from tylee nez and Mary Cathleen Wilson.

Exploring Climate Through Poetry at Reno’s Artown Festival

At a recent event on the DRI campus, Native Resilience shared original poetry and invited attendees to write climate-themed poems of their own.

Native Waters on Arid Lands project featured in World Drought Atlas

This 175-page reference book details drought impacts and adaptation solutions from around the world.

New Ag-Resilience Projections Released for Tribal Lands

Detailed future projections for 633 tribal areas focus on agricultural environmental variables

MyRAINge Log: A new tool for tracking rangeland precipitation

For farmers and ranchers in the western US, figuring out how many animals the rangelands can support can be challenging when there is a lack of site-specific data on environmental conditions such as rainfall. To help with this, the University of Arizona and the USDA...

Exploring Climate Through Poetry at Reno’s Artown Festival

Exploring Climate Through Poetry at Reno’s Artown Festival

At a recent event on the DRI campus, Native Resilience shared original poetry and invited attendees to write climate-themed poems of their own.

Native Waters on Arid Lands project featured in World Drought Atlas

Native Waters on Arid Lands project featured in World Drought Atlas

This 175-page reference book details drought impacts and adaptation solutions from around the world.

New Ag-Resilience Projections Released for Tribal Lands

New Ag-Resilience Projections Released for Tribal Lands

Detailed future projections for 633 tribal areas focus on agricultural environmental variables

Resilience Stories

Opinion: Disappearance of Native safety at UA reflects a deeper legacy of erasure

Arizona Daily Star | June 20, 2025 | Mary Cathleen Wilson | View Original Article Note: This opinion piece by Mary Cathleen Wilson was originally published in the Arizona Daily Star and is shared here with permission. Mary Wilson is a Resilience Reporter for the...

Echoes of Water: The Legacy of the Santa Cruz River

Author Shecota Rae Nalwood Nez explores the history and future of the Santa Cruz River in a changing climate.

Victoria

A poem by Gina McGuire honors the ancestral home of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, connected to her own island home by humpback whales that summer in northern waters and winter in Hawaiʻi.

The Tohono O’odham Himdag: Challenging the Climate Science View on Indigenous Climate Impacts

The Tohono O’odham Himdag (way of living in the world) has guided our actions since time immemorial. It also holds valuable lessons for the future. By Mary C. Wilson.

Renewal

A poem by Andra Hawk-Valdez walks us through the cycle of the seasons as storms build, fires burn, winds clear the air, and all is renewed.

View of desert canyon with road cutting through mountain pass

Echoes of Water: The Legacy of the Santa Cruz River

Author Shecota Rae Nalwood Nez explores the history and future of the Santa Cruz River in a changing climate.

More Resilience Stories

Building Capacity: Project Focus Areas

Greenhouse at Salish Kootenai College

Agriculture

Identifying information needs of Native American farmers and ranchers

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Data & Projections

Enhancing environmental monitoring and data services on Tribal lands

Group standing near edge of cliff on Navajo reservation

K-12 Education

Creating place-based lesson plans for Native teachers