AP journalists highlight climate change threat to Indigenous traditions in comprehensive, empathetic coverage

By John Locher and Melina Walling

AP journalists John Locher and Melina Walling spent months of source building with members of the Ojibwe and other tribes in the northern Great Lakes to produce stunning and comprehensive coverage of the threat of climate change to the centuries-old tradition of spearfishing walleye and how tribe members are working to protect this.

Thanks to months of source building, they were able to gain access into the tight-knit community for just that. By developing trust, they were able to see and learn much about the region, with one source taking them to his ancestral homelands that was flooded more than 100 years ago when the Winter Dam was built.

This story helped position AP as a leader in not just climate coverage but also really seeing and listening to Indigenous communities.

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