Jul 24, 2022 | Interviews, Thacker Pass
I was interviewed by Tiokasin Ghosthorse for his radio program First Voices Indigenous Radio about the Thacker Pass...
Jun 12, 2022 | Poetry, Thacker Pass
April Tierney and I hosted an online poetry reading to raise funds and awareness about the campaign to protect Thacker...
May 28, 2022 | Interviews, Poetry
I joined Steve Slemenda on his KMUZ (Willamette Valley, OR) community radio show Poetry On the Air to read from, and discuss, my poetry collection When I Set the Sweetgrass Down. This is Part II of our conversation.
May 13, 2022 | Interviews, Poetry
I joined Steve Slemenda on his KMUZ (Willamette Valley, OR) community radio show Poetry On the Air to read from, and discuss, my poetry collection When I Set the Sweetgrass Down. This is Part I of our conversation.
Apr 15, 2021 | Essays, Thacker Pass
Thacker Pass remembers when the hairy, pale-skinned men came to round up her people and drag them away to the forts. The hoofbeats of cavalry warhorses thundered through the basin. Pistols popped and carbines cracked. Children and elders hid in the red shadows of the...
Apr 6, 2021 | Essays, Thacker Pass
Sentinel Rock, a naturally-formed stone tower, stands at Thacker Pass’ eastern entrance. The day before Easter, Max Wilbert and I accompanied Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribal members Daranda Hinkey, her father Day, and Eddie Smart to Sentinel Rock. We had...
Mar 27, 2021 | Essays, Thacker Pass
Thacker Pass remembers the world we used to live in. She murmurs these memories in the long strides and white haunches of mule deer fleeing the scents of humans over the sage. She sends her reminiscences in sudden March snow squalls on otherwise sunny days. She...
Mar 24, 2021 | Interviews, Thacker Pass
I was interviewed along with Myron Smart (Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone tribal member) on Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s radio program First Voices Indigenous Radio about the Thacker Pass...
Feb 26, 2021 | Essays, Thacker Pass
A war is being waged against life on Earth. Rivers, forests, oceans, whole species, and millions – if not billions – of people have already been counted as casualties. We are losing this war. Badly. If we lose this war, we lose everything. We must not lose this war....
