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Joseph Lee @ Vox 2 place · today 06:00 EDT

The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change

This story is the fourth feature in a Vox special project, Changing With Our Climate, a limited-run series exploring Indigenous solutions to extreme weather rooted in history — and the future. Last October, Aiyana James attended her first water potato harvest on the reservation of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in northwestern Idaho. The weather was unusually […]

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