¡°I am not an artifact¡±
May 5, 2024 8:38 AM Subscribe
How we heal. "First out was a rust-red calf, legs unsure against the solid ground of a Rocky Mountains meadow. Then in an instant a whole herd of shaggy bison surged, hooves flashing, tails up, eyes wide, a long-awaited storm of buffalo power thundering into the wild... the first free-roaming bison ever to be unleashed onto the North American prairie by a sovereign Tribal government."
More on tribal/federal collaborations and tensions from
National Parks magazine: an innovative archaeological field school; freeing the lands between Badger Creek and the Two Medicine River from oil leases; a Blackfeet-run tour company in Glacier National Park, over a century after Native Americans were displaced to create the park.
¡°This mountain front may be someone¡¯s park, or someone¡¯s vacation but this is our cultural homeland. This is where we were given the gifts of life itself.¡±
If every national park sits on ancestral lands, what does it mean to be a Native American working for the Park Service today?
A recorded discussion and screening of Paving Tundra.
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