Oil pipeline builders didn’t await court verdict before bulldozing on Labor Day weekend (Part I of two parts. See also How Standing Rock 2016 echoes Birmingham 1963.) FORT YATES, North Dakota––1,130 linear miles, almost the 1,168-mile length of the projected Dakota Access pipeline route from the Bakken oil shale fields of North Dakota to Illinois, […]
Pit bull proliferation hits “Indian country”: fatal dog attacks triple
Reservation attacks outside the Far North were formerly almost unheard of Part II of a three-part series. See also 12-pit bull attack on toddler spotlights soaring risk on reservations and Pit bulls now in the “rez dog” gene pool. From the first documentation of reservation dog attacks until 2006 most “Indian country” dog attack fatalities and disfigurements involved sled […]