Note: This blog post was submitted today as a speak-out to the Brookings (SD) Register, my local newspaper. Imagine a large piece of prime farmland where your relatives have lived for generations, getting married, working hard,…
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I'm trying to finish a novel. I'm under contract to produce a poetry anthology. I have a speech to prepare. No shortage of things to do. But sometimes a writer has to take time to…
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I'm writing to ask your help. Perhaps you’ve been following the strong nonviolent resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, particularly on the part of native peoples who have established the Red Warrior Camp in its…
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Taoyateduta This past Saturday I drove down to Flandreau, South Dakota, to meet some Dakota friends who are advising me on the novel I'm writing about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. At the end of…
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