Over the next few weeks I am visiting west and southwest US reserves, ceded, and unceded landscapes. The western viewscape easily holds my attention for hours. Yet, while driving, I am bound to turn to the radio. A couple hours south of the Paskentia landscape I listened to Martin Kaste, of NPR, doing a piece on Tribal … Continue reading Trusting We Matter to Our Siblings
Justice
Beloved Creation
Quail are a good measure of the day’s cold. Each evening a covey settles in the wild willows west of home near the cattle’s water trough. During summers height they sometimes don’t make it back from the wonder of a day’s wandering and instead roost in the bramble of a long-abandoned irrigation ditch. Walking by them on a … Continue reading Beloved Creation
Becoming Place
When talking about US racism the words colonialism and assimilation are often used interchangeably. Fair enough. After all, the goal of State colonialization is that people, all people, integrate State values as their own. Oppressed and privileged alike learn to accept US ideology, laws, values, and religion as if they are natural. Colonialism is the practice of assimilation—subtle and forced. … Continue reading Becoming Place
Peace?
Years ago, Katherine introduced me to the concept of negative peace. In the middle of her work at Trinity College in Dublin, she Skyped to talk about Johan Galtung’s concept. The idea of peace being negative or positive had never occurred to me. In simple terms, a negative peace is the absence of violence. Think of a cease fire … Continue reading Peace?
Chewing the Cud 