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  • Forgotten borderland

    In "They Treated Us Just Like Indians," anthropologist Paula Wagoner explores the worlds of Bennett County, S.D., where whites and Indians live together in not-always-easy proximity

    by Sierra Standish, Sep 27, 2004

  • Living in two worlds

    In her biography, Viola Martinez, California Paiute: Living in Two Worlds, Diana Meyers Bahr shares the life story of a remarkable American Indian woman

    by Sierra Standish, Sep 29, 2003

  • ‘New Homestead Act’ would boost dwindling towns

    The "New Homestead Act" now before Congress seeks to entice the young and skilled back into the Great Plains’ dying towns -- struggling communities like Eads, Colo

    by Sierra Standish, Jul 07, 2003

  • Road-builders pay for archaeological damage

    Catron County, N.M., landowner Charles Cooksey and the company he hired to clear a road through a national forest are fined for damaging archaeological sites on public land

    by Sierra Standish, May 26, 2003

  • Nevada: A diamond in the rough

    Earthtones: A Nevada Album pairs essays by Ann Ronald with photos by Stephen Trimble to celebrate the beauty of an austere landscape

    by Sierra Standish, May 12, 2003

  • Historic preservation vs. tourism?

    Colorado State Treasurer Mike Coffman wants to use funds earmarked for historic preservation to promote tourism instead

    by Sierra Standish, May 12, 2003

  • Farmland protection may dry up

    California’s Williamson Act, a 40-year-old farmland-protection program, may be a casualty of the state’s huge budget deficit

    by Sierra Standish, May 12, 2003

  • Nation’s largest tribe keeps casinos out

    The Navajo Nation has said no to legalized gambling, but under Arizona’s new Proposition 202, the tribe may benefit from gambling on other reservations

    by Sierra Standish, May 12, 2003

  • Tribes, residents find a solution in the Sandias

    Land in New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains that has been fought over by the Sandia Pueblo, the federal government and private landowners will stay part of the national forest under the T’uf Shur Bien Preservation Act

    by Sierra Standish, Apr 14, 2003

  • Westlands farmers sell out

    The federal government has decided to buy out California’s Westlands Water District

    by Sierra Standish, Apr 14, 2003

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