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Ryan White, front, and Darold Madigan harvest wild rice on Leech Lake in Minnesota, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. White, who has been ricing for three decades, says the beds are "continually shrinking," which endangers the wild rice's spiritual and economic gifts. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Minnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Tue,09/20/22-10:31AM , 313 Reads
ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.
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Óscar Andrade prays early, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 in the Ironwood Forest National Monument near Marana, Ariz., before searching for a missing Honduran migrant. The pastor heads a group, Capellanes del Desierto (Desert Chaplains), that provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants. Andrade has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Pastor-led group seeks missing migrants in border desert
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Thu,09/15/22-10:11AM , 292 Reads
IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT, Arizona (AP) — After strapping on knee-high snake guards and bowing his head to invoke God’s protection, Óscar Andrade marched off into a remote desert at dawn on a recent Sunday to look for a Honduran migrant. His family said he had gone missing in late July “between the two hills where the backpacks are.”
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Angela Quintana Aucapan and her partner Cristian Fernandez Ancapan look at their newborn son, whom they named Namunkura, at the San Jose de Osorno Base Hospital in Osorno, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. Namunkura was born in a special delivery room with Native images on the walls and bed, an effort by the hospital to validate the cultural practices of Chile’s Indigenous groups. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

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Chile hospital integrates Native medicine, birth to death
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Sat,08/27/22-8:10AM , 817 Reads
OSORNO, Chile (AP) — In labor with her first child last month, Lucia Hernández Rumian danced around her hospital room while her husband played the kultrun, a ritual drum.
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Millaray Huichalaf, a Mapuche machi, or healer and spiritual guide, poses for a portrait in the Pilmaiquen River silhouetted by lights from the construction site of a hydroelectric plant in Carimallin, southern Chile, on Monday, June 27, 2022. Huichalaf has led a sometimes-violent battle against hydroelectric plants on the Pilmaiquen, which flows through rolling pastures from a lake in the Andean foothills. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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On Chile rivers, Native spirituality and development clash
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Fri,08/19/22-11:08PM , 307 Reads
MELIPEUCO, Chile (AP) — Mist suddenly arose from the Truful Truful River as it flowed below the snow-covered Llaima volcano, and Victor Curin smiled at the sun-dappled water spray.
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