My takeway from the Royal Wedding was neither the bride nor the groom nor even the queen, but thanks to Suzanne in Calgary, I was introduced to the Drum Horse.  The Drum Horse is a huge heavy horse, pinto and feathered, that is calm enough and strong enough to carry on his back two sterling silver kettle drums, plus the player, in the midst of a military mounted...

“[I]t could be argued that the real moral and political challenge of ecology may lie in accepting that the world is not about to end, that human beings are likely to survive even if Western-style civilization does not. Only if we imagine that the planet has a future, after all, are we likely to take responsibility for it.” - Paul Corrigan Decades ago when...

By the time we begin to look at this decade, there are living people who witnessed and remember. Writing history becomes something different because people are invested in defending their own families, their own lives, their own political causes. Some (Indians) have said to me that this is one reason that a white person should write Blackfeet history, because whites are...