Monthly Archives: April 2024

How ignoring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) set modern ornithology back a hundred years

This is a re-post from my other blog, The Cottonwood Post, which is focused on birds, birding, and environmental issues. Here I review a new book about the history of American ornithology — and all the stuff the early colonizers … Continue reading

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Eclipses and Native Revivals

Seven years ago, I stood atop a sagebrush bluff in eastern Oregon, waiting for the coming total eclipse of the sun. As we gathered and talked and laughed, the air cooled and the yellow landscape faded into muted tones. Ten … Continue reading

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