I am sitting next to a 200-foot high concrete apparition. Matilija Dam, not far from the California coast, sits astride the narrow canyon of the Ventura River amid the velvet green foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains. At the entrance to the dam site, razor wire conspicuously adorns the top of a fence, just above […]
Daniel Mccool
Posted inApril 10, 2000: Beyond the Revolution
Indian reservations: Environmental refuge or homeland?
To non-Indians, reservations look like vast de facto wildlife areas. But that’s not what they’re for.
Posted inJune 27, 1994: Home, home on the range ... where neo-Nazis and skinheads roam
Utah and the Ute Tribe are at war
It all began with Abraham Lincoln and a promise. In the midst of history’s greatest test of presidential mettle, Lincoln took time in 1861 to establish the Uintah Valley Reservation for the Ute Indians in Utah. Before he wrote the order, however, the federal government asked Mormon leader Brigham Young if the Uintah Valley was […]