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The Tribal Coalition Fighting to Save Monarch Butterflies
Habitat loss and climate change are decimating the species. What can the U.S. learn from Oklahoma tribes’ efforts to restore their migratory path?
Butterflies winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico.
Seventeen years ago, Jane Breckinridge came home. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation with a great-grandmother who was Euchee, Breckinridge had left Oklahoma after high school to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she decided to stay after graduation. Some two decades later, she’d secured a good-paying job in publishing, working as a vice president on the business side of a magazine. She had a nice house in a pleasant neighborhood, an office in a shiny downtown Minneapolis building complete with a heated parking spot in the basement garage the works. “And then I really just sort of chucked it all away to come live at the end of a dirt road,” she said with
Itâs Black History Month, and while this column is about a white man he was, as you will see, an important influence on W.E.B. Du Boisâ post-high school education.
Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (1833-1895) is an interesting figure from Great Barrington history. Townspeople saw little of him. Born in Draperâs Valley, Va., he attended Williams College and studied for the ministry and was ordained at the Congregational Church in New Marlborough in 1863.
He married Martha Gibson, of that town. In 1869, the couple relocated to Michigan where their son, Charles Fairbanks Painter, was born. By 1879, Painter came back to Great Barrington, parked his family in a home on Castle Street â and, with Thanksgiving and other irregular visits, variously took out-of-town positions with Fisk University, the Indians Rights Association and the American Missionary Association.
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Deb Haaland’s Ascent and the Complicated Legacy of Native Representation
The congresswoman from New Mexico could make history if confirmed as head of the Department of the Interior. But there’s more to the story than that.
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Deb Haaland could be the next secretary of the interior. Her hearing is scheduled for Tuesday and, if seated, the congresswoman from New Mexico and citizen of the Laguna Pueblo will make history. Her name will be etched into the minds of young Native women across Indian Country, and her late-career path to Congress and then the Cabinet will serve as an inspiration to any Native person who believes that such offices are the places where change happens.