Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.
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October 14, 2019
In this issue we examine how Indian boarding schools were at the center of a policy to hold Indigenous children hostage to open the West for settlement. We look at how the collection of data can be fatal for wildlife and travel to California where keeping Indigenous food culture alive risks jail time. Using audio leaked to HCN, we listen to BLM staff confront leadership over their pending headquarters move. In New Mexico, a fading mining town looks to revive itself with Airbnb. We ask what it will take to save Columbia and Snake River salmon and check in on the rebuilding of a 100-year-old boat that became a YouTube star.
Feature
Editor's Note
Understanding our shared histories can help us think critically about accountability in the West.
Current
Is the value of data worth the death of individual animals?
Leaked audio from a recent agency meeting is filled with fumbles by leadership, disapproving rumbles and derisive laughter from staff.
After decades of court cases have rebuffed federal management, it may take a political fix to restore salmon in the Columbia Basin.
Vacation rentals have gutted the culture of nearby communities, but a new project in Questa flips the narrative.
In Mendocino County, ‘guerrilla gatherers’ risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive.
A unified grid would allow for easier sharing of wind and solar power.
Essays
Sometimes you need to take a weekend off from worrying about climate change and just go camping with your kid.
If you (re)build it, they will come.
Arts and Culture
See the winners of our annual photo contest, plus other favorites.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
As the organization enters its 50th year, we prepare for the future.
Letters
- Wyoming’s ‘Bird Lady’ offers a haven for injured birds
- Unraveling the mystery of a stolen ceremonial shield
- As a plague sweeps the land, zealots see a gift from heaven
- A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too
- New bill would permanently protect 130,000 acres of Montana’s Badger-Two Medicine
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