Traditional Perspectives and Tribal Resilience

Traditional Perspectives and Tribal Resilience

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at Mead Public Library in Sheboygan, WI, Sara Smith shared how changes in the environment disproportionately impact Tribal communities across the Nation. Many Indigenous communities depend upon a healthy environment for spiritual,...
Eyes in the Back of Her Head

Eyes in the Back of Her Head

The day her children went over the cliff on the hiking trail at Eagle Crest, Regina Mayer was in the park gift shop, idly fingering a pair of sunglasses that she knew she wasn’t going to buy, that she didn’t even like the look of but had removed from their holes in...
Things Hereafter

Things Hereafter

The summer Pastor Frank Mueller lost his mind, it rained so hard and so quickly in the town of Ryeford, Illinois that the waters of the marsh spilled into our basements and flooded Gary Avenue from North High all the way to the tracks. The foundation of the...
Things Hereafter

Separate Kingdoms: Stories

As I read Valerie Laken’s latest book of short stories, Separate Kingdoms, the opening lines of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” popped into my head: Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in...