A simple tool becomes a form of self-defense.
Arts & Culture
Posted inSeptember 1, 2023: Food Justice
Revisiting the Rock Springs Massacre
In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.
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Grief, girls and the gross in Vauhini Vara’s new collection
‘This Is Salvaged’ considers what unites, including death and survival.
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What downwinders inherited at Trinity
In the days of ’Oppenheimer,’ an exhibition advocates expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire
Things We Were Told About the Moon in School
A poem by Dara Yen Elerath.
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A bumpy, interesting ride in ‘The Unknown Country’
The film’s exploration of ‘Middle America’ is at its best when it lets Lily Gladstone take the wheel.
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Building queer visibility in rural Utah
A Q&A with barber and filmmaker, Kylee Howell.
Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
The Trojan horse of Native theater
Larissa FastHorse’s ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ made Broadway history. That’s a good thing — right?
Posted inJuly 1, 2023: Waiting for Water
‘I will grip onto this space as hard as I can because we need it’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen
‘It’s about supporting the queer community, uplifting people and bringing magic here’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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Dispatch from the scaffolds: Native fishing culture on the Columbia River
An Indigenous fisherman describes how to hook a salmon, the meaning of life and his faithful dog Sturg.
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Orientalism and the West at Denver Art Museum
The museum’s ‘Near East to Far West’ exhibition asks critical questions about the colonial context of Western art but misses something important.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
The many ways to see a story
Acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling returns with a new novel.
Posted inMay 1, 2023: Reemergence
The artist and the harpooner
In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.
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A climate heist and revenge movie
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ stands firm in its sympathetic framing of its protagonists, and then asks you to evaluate yourself.
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Fossil-fuel sabotage comes to Hollywood
The director of ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ discusses the value of popular media for environmental ends and whether destroying pipelines is an act of self-defense.