Articles by Senior Staff Writer Anita Hofschneider
Anita Hofschneider is a senior staff writer at Grist based in Honolulu. She is Chamorro from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and spent a decade reporting on local news in Hawaiʻi before joining Gristʻs Indigenous affairs desk. Her work has won dozens of awards, and she was most recently named a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. You can reach her at ahofschneider@grist.org
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The Supreme Court hears a Line 5 oil pipeline case with high stakes for treaty rights
The Straits of Mackinac aren't just ecologically critical — they're the center of the Anishinaabe creation story.
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![Daria Egereva speaks on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in U.N. member states' climate action plans at COP30 in Brazil on 12 Nov, 2025.]()
![Daria Egereva speaks on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in U.N. member states' climate action plans at COP30 in Brazil on 12 Nov, 2025.]()
Two months after being arrested, this Indigenous climate leader remains imprisoned in Russia
The U.N. and dozens of Indigenous organizations are demanding Daria Egereva's release, but a Moscow court just extended her detention until at least March.
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![ALASKA, UNITED STATES - 2012/01/01: Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breeching in Icy Strait near Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)]()
Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters
“It really feels like another false solution.”
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Climate news is written in a language most people can’t understand
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.
