In a short time, a tribal concern became a massive movement.
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January 23, 2017
How the movement at Standing Rock and its protestors' efforts extended well beyond North Dakota. While the pipeline is stalled (for now), its impacts are planting seeds, however small, within social and environmental movements and for tribal sovereignty across the country.
Feature
Protesters from afar didn’t just take a stand in North Dakota — they brought the movement back home.
What protesters are thinking as crowds dissipate and cold seizes camp.
Editor's Note
Essays
By challenging our myths of the West and its warriors, Native men find their voice.
Book Reviews
Two new fiction works from Big Sky Country crave human connectivity.
A new collection examines the elaborate cars and their place in Mexican-American culture.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
New faces at the headquarters; catching up on old errors.
Letters
Current
Despite compromise, the controversial monument’s opposition is riled up.
The legislation is Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s ninth such try.
The rule would let the feds transfer land without accounting for costs.
The permitting change could give guided groups more access.
Once wolf populations fully recover, we’ll no longer know the story of individual animals.
In Oregon, the Global Owl Project builds artificial burrows to help owls recover.
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