Last Updated on September 17, 2025
Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine today announces the launch of Hotspots, a new journalistic series created in partnership with Cherokee Professor Jeff Corntassel (University of Victoria), French-Brazilian Professor Manuela Picq (Amherst College), and their students.
As part of IC’s Indigenous Rights Journalism Partnership (IRJP), Hotspots will investigate the critical intersections of climate change, development, and Indigenous self-determination. This new innovative collaboration integrates Indigenous reporting into university curricula, creating pathways for students to engage ethically with some of the most pressing stories of our time.
“Climate change isn’t just about forest fires and melting glaciers. It’s about the power relations that decide whose lands are taken, whose water is polluted, and whose futures are deemed expendable,” said John Ahniwanika Schertow, IC’s founding editor. “We see this series as a chance to break through the noise of climate coverage that still overlooks Indigenous knowledge and resistance.”
Professors Corntassel and Picq bring decades of expertise in Indigenous governance, decolonization, climate justice, and self-determination to this project. Together with IC, they will mentor students in investigative reporting and critical analysis, bridging scholarship with frontline journalism in the service of public humanities.
The Hotspots series reflects IC’s long-standing mission to amplify grassroots voices, challenge extractive narratives, and foster cross-disciplinary partnerships in journalism. Coverage will range from the Arctic to the Amazon, exposing the structural injustices driving climate harm while highlighting Indigenous strategies for resilience and renewal.
Readers can expect the first stories in the Hotspots series to be published this fall.
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
That is exactly why IC Magazine exists..
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Thank you,
John Ahni Schertow
Founder and Editor in Chief
