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The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
WEBMay 18, 2020 · Historians point to Christopher Gadsden — a slave-owning South Carolinian — as the namesake for the iconic yellow flag. Gadsden, a colonel in the Continental Army, is believed to have gifted ...
Yellowstone area flooding upends lives and portends a new …
WEBby Nick Mott June 15, 2022January 24, 2024. Unprecedented flooding in the Yellowstone area on Monday, June 13, inundated homes, devoured roads, swept away bridges, isolated entire towns, and shut ...
Washington’s largest homeless encampment faces an uncertain …
WEBJul 19, 2022 · Covering a full city block just off of Interstate 90 a couple miles east of downtown Spokane, Camp Hope is home to more than 600 people, making it the largest encampment on state land in ...
How, 150 years ago, the Homestead Act transformed the West
WEBDec 9, 2012 · This year marks the 150th anniversary of the fruit of Jefferson’s conviction — the 1862 Homestead Act. The federal law changed the West forever by providing a new start for urban emigrants ...
Reckoning with History: The legacy of lynching in the West
WEBJul 13, 2018 · In his provocatively imagined and deeply researched visual history, “Lynching in the West: 1850-1935,” artist Ken Gonzales-Day compiled known lynchings in California from statehood until the ...
How Indigenous voters swung the 2020 election - High Country …
WEBNov 6, 2020 · As of Nov. 9, the three counties that overlap with the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation went for Biden at a rate of 57%, as opposed to 51% statewide. Voter precincts on the Navajo Nation ranged from ...
The West’s hidden corners offer a safe space for polygamists
WEBAug 8, 2019 · The Rock Rally is a private gathering; visitors need the hosts’ permission to attend. But every year, hundreds of polygamists visit Rockland Ranch, where they can carve out a place of their own ...
Questions about the LandBack movement, answered
WEBAug 22, 2022 · LandBack is not a call for revenge. The white Westerner’s fear that the “other” will rob, dispossess, subjugate and otherwise violate them is a core fear of the colonial mindset, one that is ...
What the narwhal can tell us about the climate crisis
WEBApr 9, 2021 · Researchers have long debated what the 10-foot-long tooth that erupts from a narwhal’s head is actually for. Perhaps it has something to do with sexual selection, and males with longer horns ...