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    Nika Bartoo-Smith, reporter for Underscore News + ICT, covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she is an Osage and Oneida Nations descendant, with European and Indonesian heritage. Nick Bowlin is a
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    Thank You, Readers!
    If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please scan the QR code to the right, visit hcn.org/give2hcn, call 800-905-1155 or mail a check to: P.O. Box 1090, Paonia, CO 81428. Ford Foundation | New York, NY Fund for Nonprofit News (News
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    Behind Bozeman’s Boom
    THE FIRST TIME ROSA SAW SNOWFLAKES falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me. Rosa, who is from Honduras, had never seen snow before, but it’s become a familiar sight now that she’s living in Bozem
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    The Mask Of Native Identity
    IN AN EPISODE of Showtime’s new black comedy The Curse, Indigenous artist Cara Durand hosts a performance art piece during which she invites participants, one by one, into a tipi. There, she uses a meat slicer to shave pieces off a hunk of turkey and
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    Letters
    Regarding “The co-opting of cowboy poetry” (April 2024), the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering does draw many attendees who appreciate the culture but may not work on ranches. But that’s OK. Given the urban-rural divide in the U.S., it is important to
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    Researching A Reborn Riverscape
    DESIREE TULLOS and Will Nuckoles clambered down a steep slope high above what used to be Iron Gate Reservoir in Northern California one mid-February morning. As they wound through buckbrush, trying not to slip on the gravelly soil, Tullos, an Oregon
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    Undamming the Klamath
    THE KLAMATH TRIBES in southern Oregon have not seen salmon, much less been able to fish for them, for over a century now, ever since seven dams in the Klamath Basin were erected as part of PacifiCorp’s Klamath Hydroelectric Project. The dams, which w
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    One For The Road
    It’s May,doorway to charming summer.Summer, they say, is for lovers,the doubled halves, or plurals, too,however, me, I don’t think of such a summer.I refuse to believe in hibiscus loveon lawns in parks, of butterflies,of grasshoppers and of naked but
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    Lights Out
    “THAT NOISE YOU HEAR? It’s power,” Christine Lewis told me above the faint buzz emanating from the Cowlitz electrical substation in western Washington. Lewis, the senior manager for transmission and distribution at Tacoma Public Utilities, was explai
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    High Country News
    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PUBLISHER Greg Hanscom EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jennifer Sahn ART DIRECTOR Cindy Wehling EXECUTIVE EDITOR Gretchen King FEATURES DIRECTOR McKenna Stayner NEWS & INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR Kate Schimel INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS EDITOR Sunnie R. Clahchis
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    Course Correction
    FOR ITS VERY FIRST PUBLIC ACTION, back in 1981, the radical environmental group Earth First! unfurled a 300-foot-long black plastic “crack” down the face of Glen Canyon Dam to protest Lake Powell, which had just reached full capacity the year before.
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    Heard Around the West
    Utah lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting the state Division of Wildlife Resources from using any names for birds except the “original” assigned “Englishlanguage name,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The measure, if signed into law by Republican Gov.
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    Where The Rule Of Law Held
    BY THE EARLY 1960S, Washington state had almost extinguished tribal fishing rights. State officers regularly conducted raids, arresting Native fishers and confiscating their canoes, gear and catches. “It was nearly a daily event to get hassled by tho
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    All-lady Seal-hunting Crew
    An exploration of living in direct relationship with the land, water, plants and animals in and around Uŋalaqłiq (Unalakleet), on the west coast of what’s now called Alaska. I HEARD DAD yell something to me from the shore. “What?” I hollered back. “P
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    Tribes Lead On Wildlife Passages
    THE NORTH CASCADES ELK herd is a cluster of some 1,600 animals whose domain, like so many habitats, is riven by a highway. From 2012 to 2019, Washington state records show, at least 229 elk were killed by cars along a stretch of State Route 20 in the
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    ‘Myceliate The State’
    ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF SPRING, members of the Salt Lake Valley’s queer community gathered at the Moonstead, the Mobile Moon Co-op’s half-acre urban farm, to celebrate the changing seasons and the Persian New Year, Nowruz. Strong winds caught at the
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    Leave A Little Behind
    Estate planning — at any age — can help bring you peace of mind, knowing the loved ones and organizations you treasure will be cared for. There are many ways to make a difference and invest in independent journalism: • Put HCN in your will• Name HCN 
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    #iam The West
    119 Grand Avenue PO Box 1090 Paonia, CO 81428 U.S. $5 | Canada$6 Blackfeet Nation matriarch, teacher, elder Heart Butte, Montana This July, I will turn 100 years old. I was born in 1924 in one of the last encampments and raised in Blacktail. When we
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    Cattle Country
    IN THE MID-TO-LATE 1800s, wellfinanced livestock operations drove tens of thousands of cattle onto the “public domain” — i.e., onto the lands stolen from Indigenous people in the Interior West, where the grass grew as high as a pony’s belly and appea
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    Dear Friends
    I’ve just come back from a gathering of nonprofit news leaders, and I’m blown away by how much the industry has changed. Even 10 years ago, High Country News was a rarity — one of just a handful of nonprofit news organizations in the country. Today t
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    The Great Solar Build-out
    THE WESTERN U.S. IS HOME to some of the most abundant solar energy in the world. The Southwest region, from California to New Mexico, receives on average more solar radiation per day than anywhere else in the country. In January, the Bureau of Land M
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    Dear Friends
    In early March, HCN’s director of philanthropy, Alyssa Pinkerton, told the staff and board that, after 15 years with the organization, she’s moving on. With her youngest kiddo about to graduate from high school, she plans to return to her career in a
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    #iam The West
    119 Grand Avenue PO Box 1090 Paonia, CO 81428 U.S. $5 | Canada$6 The sustainability of the Southwest’s water and energy, and the difficulties we now face, rely on our diverse people and our students’ education. Education can lead to better ideas, mor
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    Thank You, Readers!
    If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please scan the QR code to the right, visit hcn.org/give2hcn, call 800-905-1155 or mail a check to: P.O. Box 1090, Paonia, CO 81428. Anonymous Anonymous Martha Davis | Cherry Hills Village, CO
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    How States Make Money Off Tribal Lands
    BEFORE JON EAGLE SR. began working for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, he was an equine therapist for over 36 years, linking horses with and providing support to children, families and communities both on his ranch and on the road. The work reinforced
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    These Stories Are Bigger Than All Of Us. But They Begin And End With You, Dear Reader.
    Our journalism — the powerful stories, analysis, investigations, photos and artwork on these very pages — is made possible because of funding from readers just like you and me. A whopping 76% of our entire budget comes from you, through your subscrip
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    Youth Are Leading The Way On Climate Action
    IN 2006, a pint-sized 6-year-old with hair down to his waist stood in front of a crowd of around 300 people at a climate rally. He clutched the microphone stand as if it was about to run away from him and held a sheet of notes that he barely glanced
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    The Co-opting Of Cowboy Poetry
    WHEN JUSTIN REICHERT was 18, he caught a ride with a friend from his family’s farm in McPherson, Kansas, to Elko, Nevada, 1,200 miles away. It was 1992, the seventh year of Elko’s National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, a series of readings and musical per
    High Country News1 min read
    High Country News
    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PUBLISHER Greg Hanscom EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jennifer Sahn ART DIRECTOR Cindy Wehling EXECUTIVE EDITOR Gretchen King FEATURES DIRECTOR McKenna Stayner NEWS & INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR Kate Schimel INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS EDITOR Sunnie R. Clahchis
    High Country News3 min read
    Heard Around the West
    Mammoths and camels and sloths, oh my! In January, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, after seven years, three governors, delays courtesy of COVID and supply chain issues, Ice Age Fossils State Park celebrated its grand opening. The new park’s 31

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