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In a conversation with Quitting Carbon, Tanksi Clairmont talks about the launch of Tribal Energy Alternatives and the organization’s plans to bring solar energy to tribes across the U.S.
A knotted tangle of bureaucracy, infrastructure, and tax impediments have held back tribes’ ability to harness the bountiful renewable energy potential on their lands.
Among the non-governmental organizations that have worked to empower tribes to build their own clean energy projects is the Oakland, California-based non-profit GRID Alternatives. GRID’s National Tribal Program dates to 2010, with the installation of its first tribal project in California.
Earlier this month, GRID announced it had spun off its tribal program as an independent entity called Tribal Energy Alternatives (TEA). The new organization is GRID’s first Native-led affiliate.
I recently spoke with Tanksi Clairmont, TEA’s co-executive director, about the launch of the new organization and its plans for the coming months.
After seeing limited success this legislative session, advocates vow to work toward full protections for manoomin, or wild rice
Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, is a hearty species. Every year, the plant grows from seeds, surviving months of muzzling by sheets of ice brought by intense Upper Midwest winters, fending off hungry waterfowl in the spring, and thriving in heat and aquatic habitats all summer long. Manoomin is sensitive and growing increasingly vulnerable to the dual forces of habitat destruction and climate change.
For millennia, manoomin has grown in the Great Lakes region, thriving in freshwater lakes found in and around what’s now known as Minnesota and Michigan. Its significance is fundamental to Ojibwe identity, drawing back to the creation story that instructed ancestors to migrate to the land where food grew on water. For generations, Ojibwe elders passed on the traditions of ricing: how to harvest the “good berry,” how to practice ceremonies that incorporate manoomin, and how to cook the grain that is as much food as it is medicine.
But since the 1990s, manoomin has exp
In a world unraveling at the seams, Black communities still gather, still move—using rhythm as resistance, joy as protest, and muscle memory as a map to each other.
As the United States grapples with political instability, economic precarity, and social unraveling, Black communities are turning to something deceptively simple yet deeply profound: the line dance. These choreographed movements—passed from phone screens to cookouts to community centers—are more than a pastime. They are rituals of survival, resistance, and joy. This story explores how, in a nation that often feels like it’s falling apart, Black Americans are finding grounding and togetherness through the beat—moving in step with history, each other, and the pulse of a culture that refuses to stand still.
Line dancing feels like muscle memory passed down through fried fish dinners and wedding receptions, through Soul Train reruns and HBCU homecomings. It is ubiquitous and almost invisible in its significance. Nobody really talks about it, the way nobody explains how to make a plate at a cookout—you just learn. You show up, you feel the beat, and you follow.
In Chinatowns across the country, people worry about the potential damage to business, loss of cultural traditions and the already high rates of poverty in these immigrant communities.
White House Correspondents Association President Eugene Daniels said that the WHCA board had "unanimously decided we are no longer featuring a comedic performance this year."
Researchers ascribe it to “animus or prejudice against minority drivers.”…
Black cowboys are fundamental to Texas history, present, and future. We spoke to historians about the real men who shaped the West.
Anne Collins Smith Blazes A New Trail As New Orleans Museum of Art’s First Black Chief Curator
Smith’s appointment marks both a historic milestone and an opportunity to foster meaningful connections between art, history, and the people of New Orleans.
Some moments in history feel like a long-overdue shift toward progress, and Anne Collins Smith being named as Chief Curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a groundbreaking step toward a more inclusive and representative art world. Now, she has not only reached the pinnacle of a career she has meticulously built but also made history. As the first Black American and the first Black native New Orleanian to hold a full curatorial role at NOMA, this is more than a personal achievement—it is a testament to the power of perseverance, community, and cultural stewardship.
“This is an opportunity of a lifetime,” Smith said, reflecting on her long journey in the art world. That journey began with a deep foundation in African American art, nurtured at Spelman College, where she earned her undergraduate degree before going on to complete an MA in visual arts administration at New York University. Over the years, she has held influential posit
Four months after a dock tragedy, residents on Sapelo Island continue their legal fights to protect their homeland.
Whenever Nikki Williams’ feet touch the soil on Sapelo Island, Georgia, memories of her youth flood back vividly.
Every fall, her grandfather had her work at the drink booth during Cultural Day, where hundreds gathered to celebrate “the heart and soul of Gullah Geechee culture” through arts and live entertainment. It’s a time to “touch the soil, hear the stories, and smell the food.”
This annual gathering is a living testament to the centuries of resilience and strength of Gullah Geechee folk on Sapelo Island, the last intact Gullah Geechee community on the Georgia coast. But, the recent tragedy, coupled with continued threats of displacement and erasure, forces descendants back into a state of high alert. For years, they’ve endured government neglect, property tax hikes, and white developers eyeing the land, known for its beaches and climate, as a place to build luxury resorts and golf courses.
Williams’ lineage to Sapelo Island dates back more than a century. She
Happy Black History Month, black brothers and sisters of the community. ❤️🖤
My day was filled with thankfulness for being with my family, praise, and love. It was nice.
Here's me, my grandma and my baby cousin singing, "Down By The Riverside." [Traditional slave hymn for those unaware] I'm the lead singer and tambourine player, LMAO.
https://jumpshare.com/s/RjVW7yFpAF7257fvnKlQ
For fun, suggest names for our little group.
BONUS: "Brown Girl In The Ring" (Solo) [I TRIED] (This is a traditional Jamaican Kids' Song.)
https://jumpshare.com/s/1ZasTtCCzKVTTqwR9q3B
Someone, please give me rhythm! 🫠
Through training and mentorship, Black chefs in Detroit are preparing young talent for culinary excellence.
I made a community for trans poc!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21050246
Welcome to the trans poc community! :]
I made this group to be a safe space on the fediverse for trans poc! it's pretty white out there!
For Siċaŋġu Nation, Taking Food Sovereignty Back Means Eating Climate-Friendly: Mushrooms, bison, and foraged plants offer a critical mix of new and old food traditions.
Mushrooms, bison, and foraged plants offer a critical mix of new and old food traditions.
On a Wednesday summer evening on the Rosebud Reservation, members of the Siċaŋġu Nation arrange 12 tables to form a U around the parking lot of a South Dakota Boys & Girls Club. The tables at the Siċaŋġu Harvest Market are laden with homemade foods for sale—tortillas, cooked beans, pickles, and fresh-squeezed lemonade. The market is one of many ways the nonprofit increases access to traditional and healthful foods that also happen to come with a low climate impact. The Lakota, of which Siċaŋġu is one of seven nations, were traditionally hunters and gatherers, but today, the Siċaŋġu Co nonprofit is building on both new and old traditions to fulfill its mission.
The market is one component of the group’s food sovereignty work, which also includes cultivating mushrooms and caring for a bison herd. Siċaŋġu Co is also working on housing, education, and programs that support physical and spiritual wellness. But food came first. “We started with food because it’s so universal. Not j
Young Black activists Ericka and John Huggins arrived in Los Angeles around Thanksgiving 1967. They secured employment at an automobile factory in rural Los Angeles and moved into an inexpensive st…
My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture: In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.
Guns are part of everyone’s life in the South. Guns came to the continent of North America as the violent conquering weapon. They became central to white supremacy’s cult, part of how whites terrorized Black communities over the centuries we’ve been coexisting here. Guns are deeply intertwined with the lives of many of the Black folks you’ll find living in Southern states, in Mississippi and Georgia and Texas and Alabama. It’s a fact of life for us that people around us are armed. We hope that those who are armed are on our side, to help defend against threats.
Black Southerners weren’t displaying their guns as a visible symbol of defiance, like the iconic portraits of armed Black Panthers from the 1960s. There’s nothing wrong with that at all—to stand in the face of white America and boldly announce you won’t be backing down. But the ways guns were culturally held in the Black South were different, the covert protection kept for when white supremacists reared their heads at you,
Mapuche sports help Indigenous Chileans revive culture
Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have long fought the government over land claims. They've faced discrimination and assimilation in Chilean society. But some Mapuche communities are now turning the page. And they’re using an ancestral sport to help protect and revive their culture, customs and lang...
Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have long fought the government over land claims. They’ve faced discrimination and assimilation into Chilean society. But some Mapuche communities are now turning the page. And they’re using an ancestral sport to help protect and revive their culture, customs and language.
Javier Soto Antihual, 35, is the coach and leader of these weekend games in the Santiago neighborhood of Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
He said that there’s a large Mapuche community here. And with the help of the Mapuche organization We Newen, or New Force, they’ve been holding these community games here for several years.
I couldn’t really find any instances for Black folks so I made one myself!
Introducing Mosiac! (It’s supposed to be Mosaic, but oh well. 💀) I created this platform because I've noticed how unwelcoming the internet can be for Black folks, whether on mainstream social media or the fediverse. I'm tired of it, and I want Mosiac to be a space where it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you look like — whether you’re a Black person in the U.S. or in Ghana. The diaspora is rich and diverse, and while we share common struggles, I want us to move beyond our pain and connect authentically. That’s the essence of Mosiac!
I've been working on this instance for a week (2 weeks apparently. I’m big brain.), and it launched yesterday. While it’s currently closed to the public, I’m exploring the possibility of federating with other Black instances out there. I’m really excited about this!
If you’d like an invite, feel free to DM me or email my business account at kimadmin@mosiac.cc. [You can email if you have questions too. (:]
(Please note that this is a safe s