Daniel Cordalis, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:38:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2-32x32.png Daniel Cordalis, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org 32 32 229054741 Remembering Charles Wilkinson, a true friend to Indian Country https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-places-remembering-charles-wilkinson-a-true-friend-to-indian-country/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/people-places-remembering-charles-wilkinson-a-true-friend-to-indian-country/ Distinguished professor of law, renowned scholar and author Charles Wilkinson passed away on June 6, 2023.

The professor and leader leaves a legacy in Indigenous advocacy.

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Tribes were excluded from compact negotiations 100 years ago. What if they had shown up anyway?

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]]> 94920 A New West https://www.hcn.org/issues/52-10/letter-to-the-editor-a-new-west/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2020/10/01/a-new-west/ After reading Alex Carr Johnson’s piece (“Now that you’ve gone West, young man,” September 2020), I wonder, “What now?” What does it mean — to Johnson and similarly enlightened people — to understand that you live on land unfairly taken and that you are not entitled to? To me, a Native person, I worry that […]

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