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April 30, 2018
This issue’s cover story, by Associate Editor Tay Wiles, untangles the many threads behind the Bundys’ rebellion, from their faith to more radical Western strains of anti-government ideology. The story also describes how the Department of Justice and Bureau of Land Management bungled their own legal case against the family. Also in this issue, the Fish and Wildlife Service revisits rare species protections, the Interior Department deals with a larger-than-expected budget and a daughter writes an ode to her father and his acequia.
Feature
The Indian Child Welfare Act has helped repair the damage of the boarding-school era – but not everyone wants it in place.
Editor's Note
Western mythology still holds tremendous sway.
Current
Congress rejected the deep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
By expanding into broadband, Kit Carson Co-op provides high-speed internet to thousands.
Susan Combs, who will oversee the service, has likened endangered species to incoming missiles.
Court order to help beleaguered fish forces operators to spill more water over dams.
Recent indicators don’t bode well for the state.
Colonial contact brought foreign food and disease to tribal nations. Now, a digital generation is reconnecting with tradition.
Essays
The irrigation of the land defines our West in ways I can hardly explain.
Book Reviews
A review of Sonny Assu: A Selective History.
A writer reexamines the stories we tell of rural life and struggle.
Perspective
How the government tackled the post-war threats of national park ‘disfigurement’ and ‘destruction.’
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
Letters
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