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Taylar Dawn Stagner

Taylar Dawn Stagner is Grist's 2023-2024 Indigenous Affairs reporting fellow.

A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada, late on December 06, 2013. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue that mining companies violate the rights of nature

Joseph Winters, Taylar Dawn Stagner
Peaches (Getty Images/lehcim)

Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it

Taylar Dawn Stagner
People attend the burial of Colombian 14-year-old environmental activist Breiner David Cucuname, who was shot dead during a rural security patrol on January 14, 2022, in the indigenous community of Las Delicias, Buenos Aires municipality, in the Colombian southwestern Cauca Department, on January 17 , 2022. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Nearly 200 people were killed last year protecting the environment

Taylar Dawn Stagner