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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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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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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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