Nam Henderson“the river’s meandering ribbon ties together its more recent significance — as an engine for agriculture and, gradually, recreation — with a complicated history of westward expansion and native displacement from the water’s once heavily timbered banks that extended more than 60 miles west toward La Junta.” https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/02/arkansas-river-lamar-big-timbers-colorado-history/ via @coloradosun re: #BigTimbers #IndigenousLandscapes #WaterintheWest + more
#ICYMI "This is the recognition of inherent hereditary rights that pre-existed the arrival of settlers...There will be no overnight change in practical terms...What has changed overnight, is the recognition that Haida Gwaii is Haida land" https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-government-haida-nation-reach-aboriginal-title-agreement re: #IndigenousLandscapes et al.
#ICYMI "Huhugam irrigation networks spanned south-central Arizona...Today, 207 miles of the Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project's main channel are complete. Another 250 miles...will irrigate individual farms, delivering water to nearly 150,000 acres." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/native-american-tribe-pima-indians-taking-back-water-180981542/ via @Smithsonianmag re: #IndigenousLandscapes #WaterintheWest et al.
@ProPublica re: #IndigenousLandscapes #WaterintheWest et al. https://www.propublica.org/article/states-tribes-water-rights-history-repeating-itself h/t @subtopes
Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years Ago. History Is Repeating Itself.
Records unearthed by a University of Virginia professor shed new light on states’ vocal opposition in the 1950s to tribes claiming their share of the river. Today, many are still fighting to secure water.
"In our work, we ask: How do the communities themselves who have direct and ongoing ties to the areas/places archaeologists are interpreting and speculating on define what their Ancestors did there? How do we foreground Indigenous knowledge and cultural resources best management practices as primary interpretive and methodological tools? We also ask the bigger question: Is archaeology trying to force us to abandon ourselves?" https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/indigenous-people-archaeology/ re: #IndigenousLandscapes et al.
"In Potawatomi ways of thinking, we uphold humility. Edbesendowen is the word that we give for it...Like, dang, aren’t we lucky to be surrounded by these genius bats and incredible fireflies?...often had this fantasy that we should have Fox News, by which I mean news about foxes. What if we had storytelling mechanisms that said it is important that you know about the well-being of wildlife in your neighborhood?" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/30/magazine/robin-wall-kimmerer-interview.html re: #IndigenousLandscapes #AllMyRelations et al.
"In recent years, new policies have been introduced...to reaffirm tribal consultation, an interagency agreement to protect tribal rights into federal agency decision making, and a new wildland fire mitigation and management commission. Those measures may ease the way for tribes across the U.S. to better manage their ancestral lands." https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2023/01/30/indigenous-women-learn-to-protect-ancestral-lands-prescribed-burns/10398772002/ re: #IndigenousLandscapes #Karuk + idea of a #PrescribedBurn vs "cultural burns" h/t @markwyner + @OshaDavidson
#ICYMI "mines evidence...to make the case that people have been in the Western Hemisphere not only just prior to Clovis sites...but for more than 60,000 years, and likely more than 100,000 years." https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/ re: #IndigenousLandscapes et al. h/t @aljavieera + @inquiline
