“Fourth of He Lies”
NOTE: This is an edited re-posting from the year 2021. The events below occurred then, not today. There were similar events in other years. See: Monuments to White Supremacy July 4, 2020. Also from the Great Plains Action Society: Decapitating Colonialism: White Supremacist Statues, Monuments, & Symbolism by Alexandrea Flanders. I’ve come a long way from…
‘In the Name of God’
The first Washington Post article is an interactive presentation of their investigation into sexual abuse in Native American boarding schools. ‘In the Name of God’ by Sari Horwitz, Dana Hedgpeth, Emmanuel Martinez, Scott Higham and Salwan Georges, The Washington Post, May 29, 2024 The second is an interactive presentation of their investigation into the history…
Iowa SWCS Summer Meeting
As I’ve begun to study environmental issues related to water, I was reminded that my friend Jon Tesdell, the SW chair of the Iowa Soil and Water Conservation Society, has organized this summer meeting. Jon says “We’ll have 3 speakers: educating youth about soil and conservation, regenerative farming, and erosion control structures in loess soil. …
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