As flashbulbs pop to record the formal signing of the Takings Act of 1949, tribal chairman George Gillette chokes back his emotions as Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug signs the bill that would flood the ancestral home of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people. (AP/Worldwide photos) The Senate vote was close, 51-40, but […]
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March has ended once more. In Tennessee the trees are gowned with light green, in Washington cherry trees sparkle white-pink parasols. Here the mountain crevices still glow white, stale sky shining behind clouds tinged with gray. Blind to the calendar, the cold parches grizzled brush, and small green globes among the roots drowse. This time last
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This question has taken on a controversial aspect, but not so when my husband and I asked it before the birth of our first child. I am white and he was Black, so we were just kind of wondering. Let me take you back a few years to the maternity ward a couple days after
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they exist in the spaces in between in the gap where dark meets light out in the open yet hiding in plain sight blending into the background of this prison playground never sleeping always feeding yet growing hungrier with each bite *** An eternal student, Jacqueline Rivas is happily retired from the “professional world” and today spends
COVID has been expensive. Not only has it cost me my employment, forced all my everyday expenses to bloat, and eaten away my savings while starving my retirement, but it has also forced me to pay a toll in personal identity and humility. Prior to COVID, I frequently used my career as an excuse to
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In the mid-fifties a nation-wide re-release of the 1939 block buster, Gone With The Wind , hit the screens. In our small town, you could easily spot the sole movie theater on Main Street by the vee-shaped marquee that protruded over the sidewalk above the double doored entry. Movies remained one of the main
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