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Painted image of Abigail Echo-Hawk, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute

The PulseDecember 9, 2020

COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted

By Lizzie Wade

The full impact of Covid-19 on Indigenous communities in the U.S. is unclear because of racial misclassification and the exclusion of Indigenous communities from data sets and analyses used to make health policy decisions.

Science

Braided sweetgrass, its three strands representing the three interwoven components of the book: scientific knowledge, Indigenous story, and personal narrative. Image courtesy of Jamieson Lawrence.

In ReviewDecember 7, 2020

Woven Ways of Knowing

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013) is a nonfiction compilation of essays written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a celebrated botanist, poet, and Indigenous member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Reprint.

Education Indigenous Perspectives Science United States

Photograph of a wall embedded with text and objects from Biddy Mason park, a surprising ‘pocket park’ in downtown LA honoring Mason who was moved to California as a slave in 1850, was freed, and became a successful midwife and landowner. Image courtesy of Don Barrett (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Primary SourcesMarch 4, 2020

The Power of Place: Finding Enduring Value(s) in the Landscapes that Surround Us

By Patrick Nunnally Dolores Hayden’s book, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995), has been a “primary source” for my thinking…

Education Planning / Policy United States

Along the Flamingo Arroyo Wash and Bike Trail where the wetland is fed primarily by urban runoff. Image courtesy of the author.

GeographiesMarch 4, 2020

Invisible Infrastructure: Documenting the Hidden Flood Control Infrastructure in Las Vegas

By Jessica Rossi-Mastracci Las Vegas. A city branded by sin, vice, and extravagance. A city where “anything goes,” including gambling, the Strip, partying, strip…

Education Landscape Architecture United States

Scorched vegetation inside the Maya Biosphere Reserve at the Archaeological site of El Peruito following attempts to illegally invade the area in 2017. Image courtesy of Ever Sánchez of the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH).

Teaching and PracticeMarch 4, 2020

Science 101: Teaching Scientific Anthropology in the Age of “Alternative” Facts

By Olivia Navarro-Farr I am a professional archaeologist and researcher, but my primary role is that of teacher. I teach a range of courses…

Anthropology Education United States

The Colorado River is visible in the distance through a light haze under blue sky, at the base of the Grand Canyon's walls in its inner gorge. Foreground shows the high desert terrace.

In ReviewMarch 4, 2020

Time in the Canyon

By David Morrison A bit over half a century ago, Colin Fletcher walked, in two months, from one end of Grand Canyon National Park…

Engagement Geosciences United States

The PulseMarch 2, 2020

The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal

By The McHarg Center

“This Atlas for a Green New Deal brings together a vast and disparate array of information in the form of maps and datascapes; tools to help us understand the spatial consequences of climate change—not so that we may be frightened by them, but so that we may be mobilized around a response to them.”

The McHarg Center

Planning / Policy Policy United States

A group of speakers sit at a long table, surrounded by attendees around round tables. Background is tall windows showing a skyline and colorful sunset.

The PulseNovember 26, 2019

What to consider when acknowledging you are on stolen Indigenous lands

By Staff

Land acknowledgement statements are increasingly common practice, but as they are developed, this article reminds us to ask “Are you doing it to make yourself feel better or to ease your guilt? Are you doing it because you agree that education is really important? Is there something that can come out of it?”

Healing Minnesota Stories

Education Indigenous Perspectives United States

Low level aerial photograph of New Orleans, showing flooded streets.

The Pulse, UncategorisedNovember 26, 2019

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

By Mary Heglar

With insights on race, history, climate, family and so much more, Mary Heglar connects Civil Rights traumas of the 1950s, hurricane tragedy in 2005, and climate inequity now in this thoughtful reflection.

Guernica

Engagement Environmental Justice United States

We Are Water MN on exhibit in the lobby of Great Lakes Aquarium, Duluth, March 10–April 22, 2019.

FeatureNovember 21, 2019

We Are Water: Stories and Connections to Nibi

“What’s my relationship to water, as a woman?” Fond du Lac’s Nikki Crowe repeated the question posed to her. “Women take care of the water. Everyone in this room came from a woman, and started in the womb being carried in water, so for women, it is important for us to take care of the water.”

Engagement Environmental Justice Indigenous Perspectives United States

Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue Seventeen

In recent years, the practice of land acknowledgements—making statements to acknowledge that white settlers to Turtle Island (what we now know as North America)...

By Laurie Moberg, Managing Editor

Feature

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...

By Čhaŋtémaza (Neil McKay) and Monica Siems McKay

Feature

Rattlesnake Effigy Mound Ancestors Still Teaching

[The Rattlesnake Effigy Mound’s] designers and builders required loving toil to speak clearly without words. REMA’s symbolic, serpentine voice (ῥῆμα) still continues to speak...

By Jim Rock

Feature

Indigenizing Environmental Thinking

we asked people to respond to the following prompt: As we face environmental challenges, such as climate change, extraction economies, (over)development, loss of habitats...

By Waziyatawin, Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould, Clement Loo, Samantha Majhor, Sara Černe, Bonnie Etherington, Andrew M. Freiman, Agléška Cohen-Rencountre, Adam W. Coon, Sarah Peele, Wendy F. Smythe, Christine Taitano DeLisle, and Becca Gercken

Feature

Navigating Indigenous Futures with the Mississippi River

Relationalities, or the web of interconnected relations of kinship and ethical regard among Indigenous people, land, water, and sky scapes, include the agential or...

By Vicente M. Diaz, Michael J. Dockry, G.-H. Crystal Ng, Virajita Singh, Daniel F. Keefe, Katie Johnston-Goodstar, Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould, Jim Rock, and Christine Taitano DeLisle

Feature

Navigating Indigenous Futures Gallery

… the River is also a place upon and a relationship with whom we might also build relations of kinship and reciprocity with Dakota...

By Vicente M. Diaz, Michael J. Dockry, G.-H. Crystal Ng, Virajita Singh, Daniel F. Keefe, Katie Johnston-Goodstar, Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould, Jim Rock, and Christine Taitano DeLisle

Geographies

Sky Watchers, Earth Watchers, and Guardians of the Former and Future Garden

By Jim Rock In their 2016 article “Wakan Tipi and Indian Mounds Park: Reclaiming an Indigenous feminine sacred site,” Roxanne Gould and Jim Rock...

By Jim Rock

In Review

Woven Ways of Knowing

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013) is a nonfiction compilation of essays written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a...

By Mahin Hamilton

Perspectives

Australia’s Legacy of Denying Water Rights to Aboriginal People

Water management in the Murray-Darling Basin has radically changed over the past 30 years. But none of the changes have addressed a glaring injustice:...

By Lana D. Hartwig, Natalie Osborne, and Sue Jackson

Primary Sources

Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community: A Reading List

Throughout the first year and a half of the grant, participants in the project have shared and discussed texts to create a common foundation...

By Christine Taitano DeLisle, Laurie Moberg

Teaching and Practice

On Teaching The Relentless Business of Treaties

In spring 2020, two faculty members from the University of Minnesota Morris each incorporated a book called The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous...

By Becca Gercken and Kevin Whalen

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