Indigenous Environmentalism: Honoring Our Relationships and Responsibilities with Nature photography Detective Ruby Birch is chasing

Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders

and connection in a wounded yet beautiful world

With humor and heart

and painful as well

magical and humorous

Indigenous Environmentalism: Honoring Our Relationships and Responsibilities with Nature photography Detective Ruby Birch is chasingFor thousands of years, Native American peoples have had a deep connection to the land they live on. From cultural burning setting small controlled fires to improve a habitat to only taking what was needed, Indigenous peoples protected and respected the land. When Europeans began colonizing the land that would become the United States, Native nations were forced from their homes. Later, the US government and non Native companies built dams that