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Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee

Contributing writer

Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer and lives in New York City.

Latest articles by Joseph Lee

Tribal lands were stolen. What happens when those ancestral territories are returned?
Down to Earth

The Land Back movement is long-overdue justice. It’s also a climate solution.

By Joseph Lee
Climate
Colonial solutions to climate change aren’t workingColonial solutions to climate change aren’t working
Climate

What Indigenous knowledge could mean in the fight to curb global warming.

By Paige Vega and Joseph Lee
The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
Climate

Wetlands absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The Coeur d’Alene’s restoration would do more than just that.

By Joseph Lee
This coastal tribe has a radical vision for fighting sea-level rise in the Hamptons
Climate

Next to some of the priciest real estate in the world, the Shinnecock Nation refuses to merely retreat from its vulnerable shoreline.

By Joseph Lee
We’re in a deadly cycle of mega fires. The way out is to burn more.
Climate

How one Karuk fire crew leader is decolonizing our relationship to fire.

By Joseph Lee
What 6 degrees of warming means for a community built on ice
The Vox guide to extreme heat

Alaska is warming far faster than most of the world. For Indigenous people on the front lines, adaptation can be surprisingly simple.

By Joseph Lee