Non-native reporters refuse to cover anything but the unbearable
Items by Lisa Jones
On North Dakota's Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, a diabetes epidemic has its roots in the dam that flooded the tribes' farmland and destroyed their way of life.
Urban communities on Colorado's Front Range are trying to cope with an influx of coyotes.
Basketball provides a bright spot in reservation life.
On Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation, Stanford Addison – a quadriplegic Northern Arapaho horse gentler – helps Indian boys through their difficult teenage years.
As honeybees vanish, Western farmers turn to the
region’s native pollinators
The writer watches cowboy movies with Indians while
visiting the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and finds a
revelation along with the myth
Lisa Jones wishes for a queer eye for her rural
guy
Lisa Jones shudders when flu sufferers gather to sniffle
in her house
A sensitive male from Vermont comes face-to-face with
Western violence at the movies
Lisa Jones watches the movie Open Range and experiences
culture shock
Harold Schoeffler visits from Louisiana; more visitors;
new Webmaster Paolo Bacigalupi
A profile of Ed Marston, the outgoing publisher of High
Country News, describes his path from East Coast physics professor
to a small-town Colorado environmentalist publisher unusually
sympathetic to ranchers
Wireless phones have become popular among the rural
residents of the Southwest's sprawling Navajo
Reservation.
A profile of Forest Service botanist Steve Monsen
describes his battle with squarrose knapweed, which is infesting
the western part of Utah, where Monsen has spent his
life.
A profile of Catron County, N.M.'s lawyer, Jim Catron,
reveals a man steeped in Celtic and cowboy mythology, and
uncompromising in his anti-government fervor.
A profile of 24-year-old Rachel Benally shows a vibrant
young woman whose family life is in bright contrast to the
often-grim statistics about youth problems in the Navajo
Reservation.
Lyle McNeal revived the Churro sheep, a dying breed, and
helped the Navajos who once depended on them, but now the professor
is locked in a bitter battle over the sheep and other issues with
Utah State University, which once supported the project.
In the western Colorado town of Olathe, Ted Medina's
Pueblito del Paiz serves as boarding house, dining hall and
occasionally tense meeting ground for the Mexican and Indian
workers who labor in the area's farm fields.
In Colorado's San Luis Valley, Peggy Godfrey works hard
raising sheep, writing cowboy poetry, helping neighbors at calving
time and living what she describes as the life of a free
woman.
Newly naturalized citizen Jesus Angulo in his own words
describes his successful journey from Sinaloa, Mexico, to Denver,
Colo.
Shelley Weiss of Oakley, Utah, in her own words talks
about her group, Conexion Amigo's work helping local Mexican
workers
Kay Humann, the office manager of High Country Linen in
Jackson, Wyo., says that the only people who will do the work are
the Spanish-speaking people.
Legal immigrant Agustin Perez plans to sue federal
immigration officials because of the way he was treated during the
Aug. 8 raid in Jackson, Wyo.
Spanish-speaking, often underestimated immigrant workers
keep the West's ski resorts running in the face of INS raids,
discrimination and other trials.
Wilderness golfing; a renegade in nothing but a T-shirt
sent to save the soul of an angry man; Durango's Jeff Morrissey and
more A-LP rudeness; housekeeper sues ritzy Colorado club.
"Samowen" campground; Samish Tribe is not dead yet;
urine-testing for river guides' cellular phone "rescue in
Yosemite"; bears in cars; state-sponsored hairdos in
Montana.
Supporters of land-grant status for Indian colleges say
education is the key for Native American prosperity.
An innovative program at Oglala Lakota College teaches a
Plains Indian tribe to garden.
Colorado too inefficient to be Switzerland; "Mrs. Paonia"
in Denver; intoxicated police chiefs and neck-breaking
veterinarians; doctors irk mining industry; free enterprise vs.
Pepsi and Coke; spanking in Montana.
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