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BRAVE NEW WEST (The Comic Strip)…by Jim Stiles
Tag: Native Americans
THE WISDOM OF NATURE AND WHY HUMANS TRY SO HARD TO AVOID IT… by Harvey Leake
From the August 2008 Archives Readers of the Zephyr are not unfamiliar with the angst that its writers often express over the deteriorating state of our natural environment and the ineffectiveness of our best efforts to reverse the trend.…
The Posey War: An End to Armed Conflict in San Juan County… by Barry Scholl
In 1923, the increasing presence of Euro-American settlers in territory formerly occupied by Ute and Paiute Indians led to what was probably the last armed conflict between whites and Indians in the United States. And the man for whom the…
Superstition Land: A Fable of Boundless Water…by Scott Thompson
It is not that Pueblo Indians hate modern America…It is just that our unchecked growth, lack of social cohesion, and flamboyant use of resources worries them as being unsustainable. They expect to outlast us. – David E. Stuart, Archaeologist…
“Notes on Reno and Vicinity” Autumn 1939…Herb Ringer
In the fall of 1939, Herb Ringer traveled west from Ringoes, New Jersey to pursue a divorce in Reno, Nevada. He stayed at a small boarding house on Virginia Avenue for the next several months. While he was there, Herb…
Sagebrush in Four Directions: Loving the Land…by Scott Thompson
The first time I went to Big Bend I drove all night. West of San Antonio on US 90 the land emptied into flat black space and one or two distant lights. After two hundred miles I crossed the wild…
Overpopulation and Liberal Taboos: In the Lands of Entitlement…by Scott Thompson
You’re damn right there’s an immigration problem in Arizona: far too many white people have been emigrating there. If you doubt that, here are the numbers: while the Hispanic population in Arizona increased by 856,000 between 1980 and 2006, the…
Sand Canyon Blues: How the Hisatsinom Voted With Their Feet…by Scott Thompson
“After several centuries of experiments and false starts, the foundations of modern Puebloan society emerged from the crucible of post-Chaco chaos: egalitarian, ritually based, anti-hierarchical.” – Archaeologist Stephen Lekson, 2008 It was one of those old motels, shaped like an…