Gentrification of Wilderness
This is the second travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, “Nez Perce Trail: BIPOCs & Battlefields & Bears.” Read part 3, “Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail” Until recently, I’d refused to even contemplate the phrase “loved to death” when applied to...
BIPOCS & Battlefields & Bears
This is the first travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 2, “Gentrification of Wilderness.” Read part 3, “Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail” It finally dawned on us after we walked into the La Tinga restaurant in downtown Billings, Montana. There, we met...
Arts, Race & Climate Change
This essay introduced Spectrum Dance Theater’s Race & Climate Change Festival No stranger to human-concocted environmental calamity, the South Park neighborhood in Seattle has been assaulted by pollution from land, air and sea. It sits astride a superfund site, and life expectancy there is 13...
Whose Homeland?
Deep questions, deep divisions arise in tribal bid by Jonathan Thompson High Country News Spider Grandmother spoke. She said, “Remember the sipapuni, for you will not see it again. You will go on long migrations. Wherever you stop to rest, leave your marks on the...
Looming Showdown at Standing Rock
By Gundars Rudzitis The history of the West is strewn with the sad stories of leaders who signed unfair treaties with Native Americans in order to steal their land. They trampled Native cultures and environments in their greedy quest for wealth. Will this tradition of...
Reckoning at Standing Rock
Resolution of pipeline protests rooted in U.S. history by Paul VanDelever for High Country News “We have seen that the white man does not take his religion any more seriously than his laws, that he keeps both of them just behind him, like Helpers, to...