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Indigenous Economics Project

The Indigenous Economics Project is funded with a major grant from the Bay and Paul Foundations.

Bineshii Hermes-Roach, citizen of the Bad River Ojibwe tribe, traveled to the Mississippi River Enbridge Line 3  crossing at Solway, Minnesota, on Monday,  June 7, 2021, to join water protectors. Bad River is now seeking $45 million from Enbridge for trespassing. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today)
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‘Greenwashing’ gets new look from regulators

By Mark TrahantMay 26, 2022
Rows of hydropanels collect water on Dec. 7, 2021, in Warm Springs, Oregon. The massive infrastructure bill signed earlier this year promises to bring change to some Native American tribes that lack clean water or indoor plumbing through the largest single infusion of money into Indian Country. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
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‘Metrics of economic well-being’ show Native Americans underserved

By Mark TrahantMay 13, 2022
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The only road to Net Zero runs through Indigenous lands

By Mark TrahantApr 28, 2022
Water protectors hold a rally in mid-2021 against Line 3 on a railroad overpass along Highway 2 in Minnesota. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/Indian Country Today)
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Investors ask banks to rethink funding fossil fuel projects, including Line 3

By Mark TrahantMar 31, 2022
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A climate ‘risk’ worth fighting about

By Mark TrahantMar 23, 2022
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Plastics: From Russia without love

By Mark TrahantMar 14, 2022
FILE - An attendant walks past a pump at a station selling gas at over $6 a gallon, Monday, March 7, 2022, in Los Angeles. Governors and state lawmakers across the U.S. are scrambling to provide relief from soaring prices at the gas pump. They are discussing ways to lower or suspended gas taxes, but taking that step has not proved easy, since much of that money goes toward repair of roads and bridges. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Putin’s war is costly at the gas pump

By Mark TrahantMar 9, 2022
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Stunning job report? Minus the Indigenous

By Mark TrahantFeb 10, 2022
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., right, talks with Sarah Bloom Raskin, a nominee to be the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors vice chair for supervision, the nation's top bank regulator, before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP)
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The climate’s ‘other’ pipeline problem

By Mark TrahantFeb 3, 2022
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The economics of climate accountability

By Mark TrahantJan 26, 2022
Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at The New School, testifies before the House Committee on Economic Disparity & Fairness in Growth. (Photo from U.S. House of Representatives video feed)
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House panel promotes ideas to shrink wealth gap

By Mark TrahantJan 20, 2022
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Climate change, Indigenous community and ESG

By Mark TrahantJan 18, 2022
Indigenous people have always measured and reported what we have collected, grown or hunted. Petroglyphs, pictographs and buffalo hide drawings are all excellent examples of that practice. (Photo by John Fowler via Creative Commons)
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What the heck is Indigenous economics?

By Mark TrahantJan 7, 2022