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A Toronto cafe has announced that after 13 years in business, they'll be permanently closing their doors. Lit Espresso Bar on Roncesvalles took to ...

Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz opens 'Map and Territory. Environmental Art from the Panza Collection' Ron Griffin, Untitled (RGP 220-94), 1994. Wood, putty and polyurethane on wood, 17.1 x 106 x 4.4 cm / 6 3/4 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/4 in © Ron Griffin Courtesy the Panza Collection and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Alessandro Zambianchi. ST. MORITZ .- Over the course of five decades, internationally renowned collectors Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza built a remarkable contemporary art collection of works by minimal and conceptual artists. As part of Hauser & Wirth’s ongoing collaboration, the gallery hosts ‘Map a...

Co-founder of R Digital Design and Wenatchi Wear, Mary Big Bull-Lewis outside of her warehouse in Wenatchee on March 2, 2021. She started her companies with her husband, Rob Lewis, and aims to educate people about Wenatchi history through their designs and apparel. Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut  and is republished here with permission. Just outside her shop in Wenatchee, Mary Big Bull-Lewis can see the Cascade foothills on the western edge of her hometown. Along the crest, only a little bigger than the size of a thumbnail from this distance, she can see Two Bears. Once you spot it, it’s imposs...

For Native communities, the reclamation of land goes hand in hand with the reclamation of identity. by In Washington, the Native-led land reclamation movement is thriving, from Indigenous farming projects within cities to fundraisers meant to buy back ancestral homelands. (Clockwise from top left: Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut and Taylor Hensel for Crosscut) As a non-Native person, I thought the idea behind the “Land Back” movement seemed fairly simple. After all, the goal is in the name: Native communities want their ancestral homelands back under their ownership.  I’d heard of efforts i...

In this particular case, the P’squosa are one of the many bands of Native peoples encompassed by the federally recognized Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. While the band signed a treaty that promised a reservation, it wasn’t recognized, leading the P’squosa to eventually lose ownership of their land base entirely.  Randy Lewis, a P’squosa elder who’s a board member of the Land Back Project (no relation to Big Bull-Lewis), has ancestry connected to many of the bands encompassed by the Colville. He says that throughout his life, he’s seen many efforts to reclaim la...