High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 12. Filling empty pages: A review of When Women Were Birds http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.9/filling-empty-pages-a-review-of-when-women-were-birds In her latest memoir, When Women Were Birds, writer Terry Tempest Williams tries to solve the mystery of the cloth-bound journals her dying mother left her -- all of them completely blank. No publisher Devon Fredericksen autobiography cancer Terry Tempest Williams nonfiction family history When Women Were Birds memoir Refuge 2012-07-06T21:53:52Z News Article Elouise Cobell, rest in peace http://www.hcn.org/wotr/elouise-cobell-rest-in-peace Elouise Cobell, who fought to bring justice to American Indians defrauded by the federal government, will be remembered as a great Blackfeet warrior. No publisher Paul VanDevelder Bureau of Indian Affairs cancer Interior Department heroes and heroism Elouise Cobell Native Americans oil and gas royalties Indian trust fund lawsuit obituaries Royce Lambert Blackfeet Nation mineral royalties class action lawsuit Cobell v. Salazar 2011-10-26T15:39:55Z News Article Remediating a Superfund sacrifice zone on Montana's Clark Fork river http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.16/remediating-the-countrys-largest-superfund-site-on-the-upper-clark-fork-river-in-montana The town of Opportunity, Mont., is weighed down by pollution from old copper mining and a modern-day river restoration project. No publisher Brad Tyer William Andrews Clark company towns cancer mine tailings George Niland Anaconda Company Clark Fork River restoration project copper mining Huguette Clark Montana Silver Bow Creek EPA Butte ARCO Opportunity pollution 2011-09-26T14:56:26Z News Article The sign maker http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/the-sign-maker The wooden signs Phil Garfoot made still offer directions to his friends, even after his death. No publisher Ana Maria Spagna Phil Garfoot cancer small town life trail signs grief Stehekin, Washington trail crews 2011-04-22T15:32:42Z News Article A uranium mill makes no sense in western Colorado http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-uranium-mill-makes-no-sense-in-western-colorado The uranium mill proposed for western Colorado will have harmful effects on the health and environment of the entire region. No publisher Emily Shoff Paradox Valley cancer uranium mining Piñon Ridge uranium mill nuclear power Telluride, Colorado 2011-03-02T00:03:05Z News Article A contaminated history unearthed http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.21/a-contaminated-history-unearthed Investigative reporter Judy Pasternak describes uranium's effects on the Navajo Nation in Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed. No publisher Molly Beer Yellow Dirt Manhattan Project Cold War cancer uranium mining Judy Paternak Navajo Nation VCA mining Harry Goulding Navajo uranium miners 2010-12-07T16:52:38Z News Article Solace among the Crazies http://www.hcn.org/wotr/solace-among-the-crazies A hike in Montana's Crazy Mountains eases the pain and worry of cancer treatments. No publisher Joanne Wilke chemotherapy Joanne Wilke Crazy Mountains hiking cancer 2010-02-05T08:55:19Z News Article An EPA staffer fights to the end http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17134 Laura Paskus pays homage to former EPA employee Brad Crowder, now dying of cancer, who risked his career to be a whistleblower. No publisher Laura Paskus Brad Crowder Weston Wilson public employees EPA whistleblowers cancer 2010-02-05T09:44:00Z News Article Seeds of Deception http://www.hcn.org/issues/294/15383 Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith takes a chilling look at "Frankenstein foods," explaining that new, genetically modified foods are not as safe as their corporate creators claim No publisher Staff Health Crops Genetically modified foods Frankenstein foods bioengineering genetic research agriculture produce food health cancer nutrition viruses 2010-02-05T09:24:04Z News Article Digging through the dust of Libby http://www.hcn.org/issues/257/14210 Journalist Andrea Peacock chronicles the tragic story of Libby, Mont., and its betrayal by the W.R. Grace Corp. in Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Mining Vermiculite asbestos Libby Montana W.R. Grace Corp. mine workers respiratory disease cancer asbestosis 2010-02-05T10:13:29Z News Article An activist http://www.hcn.org/issues/371/17719 Nellie Sandoval, the mother of scientist Stefanie Raymond-Whish, has become an outspoken activist as a result of her own struggle with breast cancer. No publisher Florence Williams Navajo Reservation Mining cancer Center Fran Robinson San Juan County Regional Cancer Nuclear Native Americans Susan G. Komen Foundation Health Navajo culture Nellie Sandoval breast cancer education about breast 2010-02-05T08:39:43Z News Article Red Feather builds homes and communities http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16813 The nonprofit Red Feather Development Group recruits volunteers like Zan Wannemuehler to help build straw-bale homes on Indian reservations. No publisher Erica Ryberg Hopi Reservation cancer Hopiland straw-bale homes Reservations construction Red Feather Development Group Northern Cheyenne Reservation children with leukemia John Vik Native Americans Indian Kerri Shebola Western culture nonprofit volunteers Zan Wannemuehler homebuilding 2010-08-26T21:50:28Z News Article