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A glaring institutional blindspot hides in Nevada’s arid heart: a sovereign water asset that no state agency or private investor has yet tapped. The Fort McDermitt Paiute & Shoshone Tribe, straddling the Nevada‑Oregon border in Humboldt County, sits atop one of the state’s last unadjudicated groundwater basins.
#Nevada #FoodSovereignty #FortMcDermittPaiuteandShoshoneTribe #NativeAmerican #CommunityBuilding
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This installment, called Field of Corn (I thought I coined cornhenge, but apparently not), has been with me for 30 years. I moved to the area a year or so after it was completed, and nobody in the region seemed to know it existed. It's freaky and glorious. It feels like a Don DeLillo story. It's sterile and repetitive--a hundred or so seven-foot-tall (about 2m) concrete corn cobs sticking straight up in a grassy lawn as part of a bland, faceless corporate office park.
I have had many thoughts about it since I left the area: corn is central to Ohio's history and identity, and is still important to the economy; the exaggerated size and uniformity of the cobs is like the outsized capitalist reality of corn in the area, disguised as down-home single-family farmers, etc. I saw it again for the first time in 20+ years and it is exactly the same except for the lights everywhere (it was pitch black except for the office buildings behind it back in the early 00s).
I often say that Columbus, Ohio felt bizarre to me. It was a city with no identity except "come here and make some money." The key businesses are mostly things nobody thinks about: insurance companies, distributors, the banks you haven't heard of. AOL was there, for fuck's sake. Everything that could be unique, quirky, or adorable is scrubbed into faceless banality (recognizing that there are some really cool things happening despite that, like Glass Axis, Urban Scrawl, the Glen Echo Fairy Trail, and many others; but they are a counterculture fighting overwhelming momentum). In the late 90s there was a grassroots movement to name the new #NHL team the Mad Cows. Fan-designed uniforms, slogans, etc. flew around. Columbus was often called "Cowtown" because, despite its population, it was (and still is) mostly suburban sprawl, and there were still cows living happily in big fields inside the city. Of course the people with the cash went with (and I apologize to fans who might take offense) the most baby-food-pureed focus-group-tested, corporate-branding-initiative-generated name possible: the Bluejackets. From the ouside it seems cool (and that was the goal), but it's some mashup of a yellowjacket with blue coloring and a Native American chief named Blue Jacket whom nobody I talked to had ever heard of. The corporate branders had to dig deep in their quest to co-opt #NativeAmerican identity for profit.
The team is very good, etc. I'm not bashing them. It's not their fault.
Cornhenge is like Columbus. Take corn, a key subsistence food for millennia, critical to the White settlers' success in the region, major money-maker for decades, part of the Midwestern identity, connected to plains life, pioneers, etc. Mass produce it, make it larger than life but it in a painfully perfect corporate, cookie-cutter way. Slap it on a lawn in the business district in a rigid square grid. Keep the grass mowed short. Don't advertise it. Don't make it stand out in any way. There's Columbus.
Monday, October 12, 2026 — #JoyHarjo on the healing power of poetry
"The new poetry collection #CloudRunner from Joy Harjo ( #Mvskoke ) is the culmination and curated expression of her own personal grief. The poems spring from the aftermath of her daughter’s death in 2023 and range from devastating to hopeful. Harjo, musician, artist, and the first #NativeAmerican U.S. #PoetLaureate, explores a mother’s anguish and the time and work it takes to reconcile it. Harjo’s talent for expressing that grief in the most personal way is an instrument in the process that connects the writer with the reader. Along the way, she considers how art and culture can transform historical and collective wounds. On #IndigenousPeoplesDay , we’ll hear from Harjo about “Cloud Runner” and her many other creative projects."
#NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanPoets #NativeAmericanWriters #NativeAmericanVoices #Poetry #HealingThroughPoetry
Former students describe what life was like as an Indian boarding school resident
by Natalia Jarrett October 1, 2026
Excerpt: "[#Hopi member, LouVina Maho] described events that #NativeAmerican children had to endure in the early days of the boarding schools, including times when police or government officials took the children away without their parents’ consent."
Read more:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2026/10/01/indian-boarding-school-former-students/
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #ResidentialSchools #CulturalGenocide #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #IndianSchools #StolenChildren #CronkiteNews
“The question about #IndigenousPeoples and #NorthAmericans is the fundamental question of this land. Maybe all the fractiles in creation since the arrival of #Columbus have finally accumulated enough power to create the #TruthAndReconciliation Commission.” —gkisedtanamoogk
Synopsis
For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing #NativeAmerican children from their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In #Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 and 2021, reaching more than two million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019 and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults.
How can I watch Dawnland?
We offer a number of different ways to view our films so you can choose the option that suits your needs best:
- Rent or purchase for individual viewing
- Purchase for institutional viewing (digital, DVD or Blu-ray) "
FMI:
https://upstanderproject.org/films/dawnland
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #StolenChildren #Wabanaki #WabanakiAlliance #ResidentialSchools #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousVoices
Indigenous People's Day, 1896.
F*ck Columbus.
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