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Where We Stand: The University of Minnesota and Dakhóta Treaty Lands
Despite the centuries-long and ongoing erasure of Indigenous peoples from American history textbooks and classrooms, and the chronic consignment of Indigenous peoples to the past in mainstream American consciousness, it remains a fact that every inch of what is now the United States is land to which one or more Indigenous nations has a deep and abiding connection, and of which, at some point, the U.S. government at least tacitly acknowledged Indigenous ownership.

Upper Harbor Terminal: Can Minneapolis invest in its north side without pushing people out of their neighborhoods?

After the Storm: How Hurricane Katrina and the murder of Emmett Till shaped one woman’s commitment to climate justice

We Are Water: Stories and Connections to Nibi

Disconnected From The River

It’s Time for a More Inclusive Earth Day

The Connection Between Water, Justice, and Health

Life Otherwise at the Sea’s Edge

The Political Binds of Oil versus Tribes
In late 2018, while researching the connections between environmental justice and Indigenous womxn’s activism[1], I was invited to story about how water might respond to environmental injustice and racism. In preparation, I thought about how the lands and peoples to which I belong struggle against “slow violence” brought on by the toxic effects of uranium contamination and nuclear pollution…