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Missing and murdered
When Tessa McClean and other Native American women painted red hands over their mouths before they led the Women’s March in Denver in 2017, a powerful symbol was born. “The red paint on our faces […]
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The Truckee’s blighted banks
A woman’s birthday wish to provide food to unsheltered people along the Truckee River last month evolved into an ongoing effort to remove mountains of trash from the river’s edge before the rushing waters of […]
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An indigenous river
Born amid an uplift of mountains millions of years ago, the Truckee River still flows 125 miles from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake. It carries life from the Sierra Nevada to the Great Basin Desert, […]
COVID-19
Nevada tribes protect members
A year ago, as the COVID-19 contagion spread across the country like a swift, rolling storm and Americans hunkered down, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony prepared for a battle. “We started our Facebook Live updates weekly […]
COVID-19
Nevada Guard battles virus
When a Nevada National Guard contingent rolled up to Washoe County’s COVID-19 testing site at the Reno Livestock Events Center early on an April morning, overworked and overwhelmed front-line responders felt like the defenders of […]
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Norm Harry, water protector, remembered
In the desert, water is an answered prayer. Beginning during the last Ice Age, Pyramid Lake and the people who lived there for millennia have been blessed with an abundance of water. For uncounted generations […]