Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A topic that has put HCN on the map in a big way in recent years: a deep reckoning with the history of Western lands, and the Indigenous nations from which they were taken. Greg Hanscom, High Country News' Publisher, talks with Nick Martin, the head of our Indigenous Affairs Desk, whose recent essay about the ancient footprints discovered in White Sands National Park cast the story in a much different light than we saw in other news outlets, and intern Brian Oaster, who has reported on the nomination of the first Native official to be head of the National Park Service.
A topic that has put HCN on the map in a big way in recent years: a deep reckoning with the history of Western lands, and the Indigenous nations from which they were taken. Greg Hanscom, High Country News' Publisher, talks with Nick Martin, the head of our Indigenous Affairs Desk, whose recent essay about the ancient footprints discovered in White Sands National Park cast the story in a much different light than we saw in other news outlets, and intern Brian Oaster, who has reported on the nomination of the first Native official to be head of the National Park Service.
