The Knife-Edge of Holly
“No one told me I was always meant to lose her. To this day, I wonder why they did it…”
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Moccasin Millennial
“Beautiful Native Nerds”
Photo by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, 2022
An academic conference like AISES, by and for Native people, is going to weave threads of our Indigeneity into the way we meet, including drum circles, singers, dancers, and the wisdom of the elders.
Headlight Eyes
Photo by Ben Lockwood. Instagram: @brlockwood
“When those eyes flash from yards away, a sickly yellow, there is no time to breathe, to think…”
New Year, New Challenges
Moving into a new apartment in a new town, prepping for the start of a new quarter, can distract us from the seasons’ cycle.
Still, the Boxes Follow
“I shrank my life to a box so often it became normal. So, when I saw how the University of North Dakota hid entire boxes of artifacts, a small, strange part of me no longer felt alone…”
Is Healing Politicization Possible?
Tongue Point, Olympic Peninsula. Photo by Mickki Garrity
It isn’t merely that we have different ideas of how we should be living together, we have different perspectives on the very nature of reality.
The Tutor
different directions by Evdoxia (Stafylaraki), visual artist / mathematician, Crete Island, Greece, https://ametronart.com/artist/en/EVDOXIA/
“When you meet the other version of yourself standing across from you someday, you will know, immediately, all the ways in which you will tutor her in a sudden crash-course.”
Protecting Sacred Places
The Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears National Monument, 2016. Photo by Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management
As the great Dakota thinker Vine Deloria Jr. has taught us, there are many kinds of sacred places. It’s our duty to protect them all.
Tattered Moccasins
“How do you explain that after so much time spent wanting, you’ve numbed yourself against constant rejection? That my indigeneity should’ve never been dangled like a carrot on a stick?”
Celebrate the Milestones
A group of graduates from Northwest Indian College. Photo by Cara Jo Retasket
Each tribal college graduate increases our ability to make decisions and helps us manage our collective resources and protect our cultural sovereignty for future generations.