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Indigenous Religious Freedom Violations Abound at the U.S.-Mexico Border Barriers
This last year, we have palpably felt a heightened level of traumatic stress pervasive in the Indigenous communities where all three of us have worked on both sides of the international boundary. Throughout our adult lives, we have provided educational opportunities, technical assistance, and land rights advocacy strategies within the many Indigenous communities that live within 100 miles or so from the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Ecological Knowledge and Practices of Traditional Indigenous and Spanish Agriculturists, Gary Nabhan
For decades, we have been told that agriculture in the U.S. Southwest evolved from a blending of pre-Spanish-contact Indigenous crops…
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Saving Our Food Supply in the Face of Climate Change
In the already-scorching Southwest, a group of scientists, ranchers and farmers are figuring out how to adapt the current agricultural…
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Gary Paul Nabhan, recently interviewed by a clod of dirt
Dirt: So you occasionally write about us? Gary: Well yes, on occasion. Why? Dirt: What do you think entitles you…
22 Oct 2019
Gary Nabhan asks for directions from a rivulet rushing downhill toward a larger stream
Gary: Excuse me, I’m lost, can you tell me which way…? Rivulet: I can’t hear you, the water is roaring…
23 Oct 2019
Celebration of “Jerri” Wanda Mary Goodwin Nabhan Buxton – 1927-2020
As some of you can guess, I am the last person you’d want to assign to do an obituary of…
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2,700 Scientists: Planned Border Wall a Threat to Biodiversity
Around 2,700 scientists from 47 countries have signed a letter supporting a scientific paper by Defenders of Wildlife that concludes…
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How Farmers Can Survive Tariffs
In America’s farm country, the fear is palpable. In recent months, I’ve talked to dairy farm owners in Wisconsin, grain…
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Arturo Sandoval – A Leader for the First Earth Day
Reflecting on 50 years of social and environmental justice work When the first celebration of Earth Day was being planned…
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Biden faces call to heal environmental and cultural scars of Trump border wall
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Gary Paul Nabhan and David Suro Piñera’s “Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals” is both a paean…
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Healing Our Land and Communities Through the Power of Food
As an agricultural biologist, ethnobiologist and author, Gary Paul Nabhan is a renowned pioneer in the local food movement. In…
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On this Earth Day, let’s think about agriculture
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