Sublime

Chief Oren Lyons once said: Our knowledge is profound and comes from living in one place for untold generations. It comes from watching the sun rise in the east and set in the west from the same place over great sections of time.

vigil

The protesters referred to themselves not as protesters but as water protectors. Theirs was a nonviolent protest

Freedom from prison and then documentation to keep track of us was what brought me to the name Jude. Some of the other Indians took famous American presidents as their names, one man took Richard Henry Pratt, the whole thing like that, and Bear Shield took Victor because of a book he’d read called Frankenstein, about a man-made monster. Bear Shield

truculent

anthropomorphically.”

Despite their later losses, the Plains tribes are, quite likely, around today only because they fought—armed with guns and mounted on horses—in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Accepting my role of nonparticipant,