environment The First Cowboy Song A ribbon of chip seal traces the U.S.-Mexico border through an archaeological landscape almost beyond time. Here, where civilization in North America arguably began, the federal government plans to build a wall — an insult to the history embedded in every layer of stone along the Rio Grande.
Indigenous People The Brink of Extinction “The American Buffalo” meanders through centuries of an unbreakable connection with Native Americans of North America, and the unspeakable depredation visited on both by European invaders. Hearing, reading, or seeing history can be horrible, hence the effort to whitewash it in some quarters.
Indigenous People An American Tale The genocide of native peoples,, Americans argued, was an inevitable consequence of Manifest Destiny, the belief that white Europeans and their progeny had a right to any land they wanted to settle in the West. Indians were characterized as savages, while settlers were the brave pioneers.
Indigenous People Respect. A Full Circle in Life and Land. "When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money." -Cree Prophecy
