Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is one of our editorial interns and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
Hatch green chiles are feeling the heat
hcn.org/issues/53.11/south-agriculture-hatch-green-chiles-are-feeling-the-heat
By Wufei Yu
Alaska Native villages band together to keep the Yukon River’s wild salmon afloat
hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigenous-affairs-fish-alaska-native-villages-band-together-to-keep-the-yukon-rivers-wild-salmon-afloat
By Maia Wikler
Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs
hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigenous-affairs-people-places-decolonizing-idahos-road-signs
By Tony Tekaroniake Evans
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western US. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
Watch this week’s Halito from High Country News. Brian Oaster rounds up some of our news stories from this past week. Oaster is one of our editorial interns and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. “Halito” is the Choctaw greeting for hello.
Hatch green chiles are feeling the heat
hcn.org/issues/53.11/south-agriculture-hatch-green-chiles-are-feeling-the-heat
By Wufei Yu
Alaska Native villages band together to keep the Yukon River’s wild salmon afloat
hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigenous-affairs-fish-alaska-native-villages-band-together-to-keep-the-yukon-rivers-wild-salmon-afloat
By Maia Wikler
Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs
hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigenous-affairs-people-places-decolonizing-idahos-road-signs
By Tony Tekaroniake Evans
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers environmental news and other important issues and stories that define the Western US. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.










