Articles by Taylar Dawn Stagner
Taylar Dawn Stagner was the 2024-2025 Indigenous affairs reporting fellow at Grist. Prior to joining Grist, she contributed radio reporting to NPR and, as a podcaster, won an Edward R. Murrow Award. She’s worked at Wyoming Public Radio and High Country News, writing about Indigenous affairs.
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![Illustration of a branch with chokecherry berries, a spoon woven out of bear grass, bluebells, and a mug of Hawthorne berry tea]()
![Illustration of a branch with chokecherry berries, a spoon woven out of bear grass, bluebells, and a mug of Hawthorne berry tea]()
I’m grateful for a lot of things. But not Thanksgiving.
The holiday masks an unsavory reality. But "Un-Thanksgiving" offers something more satisfying.
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![an illustration of a peach with the outline of a trail carved into the flesh]()
Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it
The "Indian peach" survived genocide. Can it withstand climate change?
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A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments in California
If approved, these national monuments would protect around 1 million acres.
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![A rainbow in a dark grey sky over a tribal casino building in the mountains]()
![A rainbow in a dark grey sky over a tribal casino building in the mountains]()
Tribes help tribes after natural disasters. Helene is no different.
Tribal nations long ago learned to stitch together a patchwork of support to help each other cope with disasters like Hurricane Helene.
