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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
Life and Death Struggles Continue Today
Today is the anniversary of one of many incidents of White people and soldiers attacking and killing Native men, women and children. This anniversary is of the Wounded Knee Massacre, December 29, 1890. In the late nineteenth century, Indian “Ghost … Continue reading
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Plenty Coups
Plenty Coups was the principal chief of the Mountain Crows of the Crow Nation and a visionary leader. He allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne were … Continue reading
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Radical Hope Today
There have been a few times when praying and studying have crystallized a vision from what had been disconnected thoughts and ideas. I like the visual of “connecting the dots”. About forty years ago an image of my beloved Rocky … Continue reading
Mars and the Indianapolis Central Library
This story about the last photo taken by the Opportunity rover from Mars reminds me of using this same technique to photograph the main entrance of the Indianapolis Marion Country Central Library. This Mars photo is composed of 354 images. … Continue reading
DAKOTA 38
The day after Christmas, Dec. 26, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest execution in United States history — the hanging of 38 Dakota (Sioux) men. The Dakota 38 Plus 2 Memorial Ride is a ride that honors the 38 … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, decolonize, Indigenous, Native Americans, Uncategorized
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
For a long time I’ve been trying to visualize how our (near) future might look. Even if our social, economic and political systems were working well, they can not for much longer. They are being overwhelmed by climate chaos, which … Continue reading
Cultural Collapse 2
I’ve loved nature all my life, raised on farms in Iowa, and family camping trips to our National Parks that began at an early age, and continued since. Spending hours most days outside as I walked to work, not having … Continue reading
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Take Action – Protect Our Land – Paramount Network
Native American voices and perspectives are often missing when discussing issues that impact Native land. To fight this invisibility of Native peoples, Paramount Network and Yellowstone partnered with IllumiNative to share the story of the Fort Belknap Indian Community’s fight … Continue reading
How to talk about the Green New Deal at the dinner table
So you’ve just walked in the door for a holiday dinner—your cousins are arguing, the air smells like baked cinnamon, and some combo of Fox, MSNBC or ESPN is playing in the other room. It’s the first time you’ve seen … Continue reading
Cultural Collapse
We are facing two major threats to our way of life, and quite possibly our survival. Capitalism has failed because it has created unbelievable maldistribution of wealth, pushing millions into poverty. And at the same time ravages natural resources which … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 