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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.

Eroding Memories and Erecting Risk on the Amite River

The Urban Mississippi: Valuing Connections in a Changing Climate

The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal

Storying Pinhook: Representing the Community, the Floods, and the Struggle
When They Blew the Levee is a fierce love letter to the power of community, one encoded to Black sociality, the broader American social imaginary, and the mythical power of the Mississippi River. In praxis, it is a political tool—a lyrical baseball bat—for the residents of Pinhook, Missouri to wield in a rally against the sustained structural violence of a biased justice system and racialized world.

Resonant Rivers: Water, Indigenous Relationality, and Other Futures
Two sets of rivers in what is now known as Canada are vital actors in urban landscapes. The McIntyre and Kaministiquia Rivers in Thunder Bay, Ontario and the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba are sites of colonial violence and disappearance: in both cities, dead Indigenous people have been pulled from their depths.

2019 Will Be a Big Year for Water

Red Wing residents, tribal members find common ground on He Mni Can
