The importance of reclaiming indigenous languages is highlighted through the works of the Indigenous Native Poets (In-Na-Po) organization and the Overpass Light Brigade.

Language Back

Indigenous language in poetry and LED lights.

Watch as the first NOAA buoy of the Spring is placed by UWM in Lake Michigan. These buoys, throughout the Great Lakes, provide continuous, real-time information on critical conditions such as wind speed, air temperature, wave height, water temperature at various depths, and water-quality parameters. This data, freely accessible to the public, is essential for a wide range of users, from fishermen and freighter captains to climate change scientists. And there's the problem: Trump wants to defund the program so that vital scientific research will be starved of this source of data.

Pulse of the Great Lakes:  It Begins at Atwater

Watch as the first buoy of the Spring is placed in Lake Michigan.

Idaho's salmon and steelhead runs -- once among the greatest runs in the world -- and the orcas that feed on them are facing catastrophe from the continued operation of the four Lower Snake River dams, and when these apex predators go, the entire ecosystem collapses. This film- a good companion to our river running film from last year on the same topic, The Grand Salmon- looks more closely at the unsavory machinations that contributed to the construction of the dams in the first place and the campaign to keep them operating.

The Snake and the Whale

Snake River dams are leading to Pacific Northwest ecosystem collapse.

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