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"The trouble with giving away a place name is that then we can guarantee someone else will go there," points out poet, Damon Falke. "No matter how remote…
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"I have no deep physical roots to a particular place, nor did my parents before me," writes anthropologist Sally Thompson in her manuscript, True North at…
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“For seven days in June 2015, Rachel Dolezal captured the news cycle,” writes University of Montana professor, Tobin Shearer, for "Reflections West."…
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As Hannah Bissell watches her neighbors tinker with a tractor engine late into the evening, she wonders about the connection between shared memories and…
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Poet Damon Falke remembers the day when a mentor handed him a sack and said, "Read these, man. They'll change your life.""The book sale in those days…
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Marjorie Snipes and her family live in Georgia but spend vacation time near Seeley Lake, Montana:"It is amazing that while the world around us turns…
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After a lifetime of hearing about the American West's preferred myths, Tasha LeClair, who grew up in Wyoming, tends to feel invisible: “When I write about…
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Joseph Grady, who is Blackfeet, was adopted and raised by a non-Indian family near Seattle:"I went to school to learn that I was brown, because skin color…
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Archaeologist Sara Scott is fascinated by the petroglyphs of the West:"The crunch of limestone under my boots echoes up the canyon as I walk through its…
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Megan Calvert, an undergraduate at the University of Montana-Missoula, grew up in the shadow of Montana's Mission Mountains. The gothic influence of 19th…