National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–the wonder of bats and the rebirth of the Seine.

This report is aimed at illuminating issues with the magazine’s processing of Indigenous stories and offers recommendations that could provide pathways to a more just, and more Indigenous, future.

This story is part of The Race Issue, a special issue of National Geographic that explores how race defines, separates, and unites us. It is November 2, 1930, and National Geographic has sent a ...