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Listening to the Gila

A river surrounded by trees and rocks.

10.27.23 – Rarely in the United States do we remember that rivers are living beings themselves—and they have something to teach us. With funding from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder, Our Land’s Laura Paskus visited the Gila River, including a stretch that would have been changed forever if New Mexico had…

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The Cost of Free Land

The cost of free land by rebecca clarke.

10.13.23 – At the turn of the 20th century, Rebecca Clarren’s ancestors fled antisemitism in Russia to start new lives in America, where they became homesteaders on lands the U.S. government stole from the Lakota people. In her new book, “The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance,” Clarren offers an intimate…

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