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TWENTY FOUR If I Had You … Like You Got Me

By Editor The USA Blog on September 9, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

TWENTY THREE I stand a wreck on Error’s shore

By Editor The USA Blog on August 8, 2023 • ( 3 Comments )

BY THE WAY Four Accountants

By Editor The USA Blog on July 26, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

TWENTY TWO Tokens of an Omnipotent Civilisation

By Editor The USA Blog on July 4, 2023

TWENTY ONE A Martinez and Some Tomatoes

By Editor The USA Blog on June 15, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

TWENTY Ships Have Meanings

By Editor The USA Blog on May 15, 2022

FIFTEEN Reclaiming Native Truth

By Editor The USA Blog on February 16, 2021

The work of photographers like Thomas Ryan RedCorn and Zig Jackson are working to reclaim native truth from the stereotypes of Edward Curtis and the movie industry.

FOURTEEN The Bald Eagle

By Editor The USA Blog on January 26, 2021

A bald eagle terrifies Minnie and sparks an account of the significance of eagles to Indigenous peoples and of the existential threat of wind turbines.

THIRTEEN National Peanut Butter Day

By Editor The USA Blog on January 24, 2021

We celebrate National Peanut Butter Day, calculate calories and meet George Washington Carver at Tuskegee.

Boiler Handles, Scapa Flow

TWELVE At Night the Salmon Move

By Editor The USA Blog on January 21, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

After a hash brown breakfast cup, the story continues with the removal of the dams on the Elwha and the task of managing 32 million tons of slurry. Washington State weighs in with a strategy for carbon neutrality by 2050.

ELEVEN Redemption Song

By Editor The USA Blog on January 11, 2021

Raymond Carver as inspiration for country musicians. Redemption and the first part of the story of the Klallam people.

TEN Took Away Our Native Tongue

By Editor The USA Blog on January 3, 2021

Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young: our new sound system and a look at Indigenous languages

seal in harbour at St Ives

NINE Ancient Rhinos

By Editor The USA Blog on December 27, 2020

The Race Marshal catches a ghost shark and I tell the story of the extinct American rhino and the bas relief at Ashfall.

SCABBARD FISH

EIGHT Minnie and the Killer Whale

By Editor The USA Blog on December 18, 2020

Minnie spots a killer whale – one of the orcas of the Salish Sea. We hear about the Chinook of the Fraser River and sonar testing by the US Navy.

destitute man

SEVEN The Good in All of the Bad

By Editor The USA Blog on December 5, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

A tweet from the Navajo Nation’s Health Department Director starts a chain of thought through Indigenous peoples’ suffering to the extraordinary kindness of the Irish.

SIX Woolly Dogs

By Editor The USA Blog on November 30, 2020

I make marrons glaces and am burnt by hot syrup. Barking dogs on the shore lead to a conversation about dog wool.

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