For millennia Indigenous communities have relied on the far north's caribou herds for sustenance. But as the herds dwindle, the future becomes difficult to predict.
As the composition of the landscape changed, so too did the ethnic mosaic. Waves of colonial settlers diffusing across the conterminous United States in pursuit of "manifest destiny" not only catalyzed the erosion of soil, environment, and native flora and fauna, but also endemic culture, ...
Where was land ceded in the Treaty of Greenville? Where was the U.S. Constitution signed? Where did the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo take place? Where was the Declaration of Independence approved? Where did Cornwallis surrender? Where was the Continental Army established? Where was...
Which country did not sign the Treaty of Versailles? What was the lobbyist theory in the Spanish-American War? What Continental Congress called for peace, war, and declared independence? What did the Treaty of Cordoba do? What was the Treaty of Cordoba? What was seized in the Treaty of Par...
Hard for me to believe that the wonderful SPCA, purveyor of used cats’n’dogs, could be intimidated. I am not easily intimidated, so I walked in the parade with Muttville, senior dog rescue. We were told to wear pink, and we did! Here are some of us, looking pretty in pink. Far...
Attorney General Merrick Garland to include Everett, Spokane and Yakima in a federal initiative aimed at combating drug-related violence and overdoses. He wants the counties involved in “Operation Overdrive.” putting more resources into saving lives....
That generation demonstrated this by the fact that they Morris adorned public buildings with biblical symbols such as Moses crossing Red Sea; or Moses holding tablets of stone carved on the building of the Supreme Court; or the even state papers of the Continental Congress that are filled with ...
So my writing advice this month is this: take an interest in things, as my grandmother did. Take an interest in all sorts of things, even things that don’t seem particularly interesting or important, at first. Whether you are protecting America’s foreign policy interests or writing your ...
We wound up at the tip of the island and noted the road ended sooner compared to previous years (as did the island) with less shallow sandbar extending into the inlet. We turned north and drove back up to the Canadian Hole to watch the kite-surfing for a while. As we watched them ...
Although he did not know where the story was going, his protagonist, the Stoned Private Eye did. He just wrote as the plot unfolded with endings mostly unknown until the last paragraphs were written. Several times 00 was seriously worried that there was no way out of the Stoned Private Eye...