Items by Sierra Crane-Murdoch — 10 items
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Is the Violence Against Women Act a chance for tribes to reinforce their sovereignty?
A new provision lets tribes prosecute non-tribal members for violent crimes like rape for the first time.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Jun 12, 2013 -
How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho
Conservative transplants largely from California have taken over Kootenai County -- have they gone too far?
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, May 20, 2013 -
The gray area: a conversation with artist Renee Couture
An Oregon artist reinterprets the region's timber wars.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, May 10, 2013 -
Reimaginations
A writer’s quest to find the people behind her great-grandfather’s New Mexico drawings.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Mar 01, 2013 -
Reviving Custer: Re-enactment and revision at the Little Bighorn
A Custer impersonator confronts old and new racial tensions as he performs in a Battle of the Little Bighorn re-enactment in Montana.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Jan 02, 2013 -
The GOAT Blog
End of an era?
American paternalism is on the outs in Indian Country
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Dec 05, 2012 -
The Other Bakken Boom: America's biggest oil rush brings tribal conflict
North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes have long wanted a stake in the state's occasional oil booms, but the size, scope and speed of the Bakken development caught them completely unprepared.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Apr 23, 2012 -
Junk rule pits rural ideals against suburban standards
In New Mexico's San Juan County, a new ordinance contrasts upper class aesthetics against a rural lifestyle.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Sep 13, 2011 -
A day among junk connoisseurs
San Juan County, N.M., is a haven for junk cars -- and for the guys who fix them up.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, Sep 04, 2011 -
Stream access laws on private lands in the West
by Property and Environment Research Center. Spring 2009 data. Updated by Nathan Rice, Sierra Crane-Murdoch and Emilene Ostlind., Jul 24, 2011






