from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment

One learns a great deal about many aspects of fundamental Cree spirituality

beautiful and bone dense

The creative use of text and language throughout this collection suggests that creative use of language can become a bold way through the traps set up to confine speakers to sanctioned ways of expressing themselves

make us long for woods and waters today

Fort Snelling at Bdote: A Brief History Menominee from bryologists to those interestedFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U. S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers. That limestone fortress has stood for almost two hundred years as both an actor and a symbol in Minnesota's history. But that symbolism is complicated. The fort is a powerful reminder that most Minnesotans today are descendants of