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Family members and indigenous activists protest outside the courtroom as the killers of Berta Cáceres were convicted. But did the investigation go far enough. Photo by Jackie McVicar
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jackie McVicar
The court ruled that the murder was premeditated with the “consent of Desa executives.” Desa is the Honduran company holding the concession for a hydroelectric dam project on the Gualcarque River on disputed land.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kaya Oakes
In Tommy Orange's debut novel, Oakland becomes a character as much as any of Orange’s other individuals: regularly erupting into violence, steadily erasing the history of its impoverished citizens who jump from apartment to apartment, existing in a series of “long, grey streets” that seem to go nowhere when you’re a kid on a bike pedaling around.
FaithJesuitical
Jesuitical
This week, we talk with Maka Clifford of the Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota.
A teepee in Ottawa on June 30, 2017, erected as a symbol of rights for indigenous people. (iStock/PaulMcKinnon)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
Carleton University researchers say that Canadian mining companies are taking advantage of anti-terrorism tactics to suppress legitimate political protest.
Activists march to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., in April 2016, calling for an independent investigation of the murder of environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) 
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jackie McVicar
Honduran authorities have put the trial for the murder of an environmental and indigenous rights activist at risk by refusing to analyze and share key evidence.
Brady Jandreau in ‘The Rider’ (photo: Sony Pictures Classics)
Arts & CultureFilm
Kristin Weston
The acclaimed new film takes place on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation where I grew up and competed in rodeos.