…classes, talking with staff at the Indigenous Cultures Center, meeting with the Native American Student Association, as well as partners from Red Cliff and Bad River. She will be discussing best practices in heritage repatriation and exercising cultural and political sovereignty, in building international Indigenous support networks, and in creating…
…on the Great Lakes Compact, a binding commitment to keeping Great Lakes water in its basin. To listen to the 11-minute interview, visit Michigan Radio. Mount Pleasant, located in Racine County, sits right on the edge of the Great Lakes water basin. The Great Lakes Compact refers to these regions…
…for Lake Michigan water is the latest test of the decade-old Great Lakes Compact, an agreement among the region’s states intended to make it almost impossible to direct water outside the natural basin of the Great Lakes unless it is added to certain products, such as beer and soft drinks….
…of concern for nature.” She met an anthropologist working with local indigenous women “and this appealed to me greatly, but I didn’t have the training to pursue that line of work at the time.” To get that training, she earned her PhD from Cornell University Development Sociology Department and did…
…recovery efforts in the Great Lakes. I also wrote about wind farms on the Great Plains, forest fires in the Mountain West, drought in the southwest and issues of that sort. Q. How do the two fit together? Maybe the title of your book, “The Great Lakes Water Wars,” provides…
In celebration of Indigenous Cultures Awareness Month, Northland College will be hosting a series of events to promote understanding of Native American and indigenous culture. Events are free and open to the public. Click on the links for more information. March 3 Ojibwa Winter Games 1-6 p.m. Campus Mall March…
The Timber Wolf Alliance is hosting the Great Lakes Wolf Symposium, October 20-22, 2020. This symposium will be hosted on the Northland College campus and will coincide with Wolf Awareness Week….
…the 2006 book The Great Lakes Water Wars which, along with Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter Dan Egan’s 2017 book The Death And Life Of The Great Lakes, is one of the seminal texts on the lakes’ political and environmental history. The talk, recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place, came as…
The Urban History Association awarded Josiah Rector, Hulings Assistant Professor of US and Environmental History and Culture, the Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban History. Rector, who began at Northland College this fall, wrote his dissertation “Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice and the History of Capitalism in Detroit, 1880-2015,”…
…to divert Great Lakes water to arid regions … my worst fears have been realized.” The Nova proposal was eventually canceled, but it led to the adoption of the Great Lakes Compact in 2008. The compact bans new water diversions, with limited exceptions for communities on, or near, the Great…
