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On the day the dark returns and the white smoke rises, the false sister marks an age of magic and an era of hunger.

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Welcome to Bursting Stones! This is a FanClan of my own creation, featuring Pipestone Colony and Cloudburst Colony.

I am Moth, otherwise known as @moths-wc-aus or @monochrome-sunsets ! I'm excited to begin this journey!

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Hi 👋As a Park Ranger (interpretative, like me?), I assume you know all about how the NPS was formed- most of the land was brutally, illegally taken from the local tribes. I've been having a moral dilemma about my role in the national park system. I love educating the public and being a positive influence, but am I upholding an oppressive system? I know that if I were to switch to education or to museums, it'd be the same question. What I'm asking is: how do you reconcile with that?

I mean, this is true of all the land in the US, so it's bigger than the park service.

Before I dig into this as a white person, here's what Deb Haaland has to say:

I think that the Park Service has a lot to reckon with historically, and I think parks lately are showing some interest in trying to do that. From big parks like Yellowstone bringing diverse Indigenous stakeholders to to table on management decisions while also supplying buffalo to regrow and strengthen herds thousands of miles away, to Canyon de Chelly's requirement that tourists travel into the canyon only with a Navajo guide in recognition of the location's sacred nature, to Pipestone National Monument celebrating ongoing traditional pipestone quarrying, to advocacy for protection by the Department of the Interior at Bears Ears.

As a (pretty much entirely) white interp ranger, I understand that I'm living in someone else's home, but I was living in someone else's home when I lived in LA too, and none of that is unique to the US. And honestly I think, for the tremendous flaws of the National Park idea, at least we try to preserve things. In a lot of colonial nations that hasn't been the case.

I think more National Park Sites should form better relationships with local tribal governments, and see what they want. Different people have different relationships with different places, and will want different things. I think the Park Service should open the door to co management more, and encourage more opportunities for Indigenous people to tell their own stories and not leave it all in the hands of randos like us. I think we're moving the right direction in that regard.

The fact of the matter, in the end, is that none of this begins or ends with the Park Service. It's a puzzle piece, a tool used to enact, enforce, repair, undo, and uphold the ideals of a nation that has never effectively dealt with its past, present, or future. I think protecting land from development and preserving natural spaces is a valuable, albeit naive, goal. It can't be done in a vacuum though. As I look toward a future of the National Parks, I see a lot more Native involvement in their management. That will look different in each site, in reflection of the different cultures there. I can't speak to what that will look like for anywhere in particular, but it is happening already, and as educators it's part of our job to explain the whys and hows of that to people who don't get it, and who think sharing will mean losing something they love. At the end of the day, that thing they loved was broken, and there is good momentum behind fixing it, and most people can understand that given time.

I think it's good that you feel guilty. It means you're paying attention. I think the important thing now is to turn that into momentum and passion. Figure out what you can do and do it.

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Sites of Incarceration: Minnesota: Boarding Schools and the School to Prison Pipeline

Summary of Key Points

The first boarding school opened in 1860 in what is currently the state of Washington, on the Yakima reservation. Within 20 years there were over 60 schools operating across the country. The schools were explicitly assimilationist.

Residential boarding schools forcibly removed children from their homes, for months or even years at a time. Children were taught that their culture, their family, even their native language was sinful and shameful. They were also frequently abused and neglected.

There were two major schools in Minnesota, the Industrial School at Morris and Pipestone Ind*an School. Children lived at the school year round.

In 1928, the Merriam Report found that the boarding schools were severely underfunded and inadequate. In 1934 the Ind*an Reorganization Act “restored tribal self-government”***, giving Nations greater control over their own affairs, and closing the majority of boarding schools.

The 1978 Education Amendment Act provided funding for schools operated by tribal governments, known as Bureau of Ind*an Education (BIE) schools. This is the system in place today, with over 180 BIE schools in operation, with 42,000 children attending.

BIE schools are underfunded, understaffed, unsafe and in need of major repairs. They are also academically inadequate. Though children no longer live at the schools and they are no longer openly assimilationist, the legacy of boarding schools continues today.

Indigenous people in the United States are currently experiencing a wide range of adverse conditions, such as lower rates of high school graduation, and higher rates of homelessnesss. They experience some of the highest rates of disparity in health compared to the American average. They are overrespresented in the criminal justice system, prisons, juvenile detention centers, and child protective services. For example, less than 2% of children in Minnesota are Indigenous, yet they make up nearly 20% of the children in foster care.

This project is called “Boarding Schools and the School to Prison Pipeline” but in my opinion, it fails to make the link between the two, or even to fully demonstrate the existence of the school-to-prison pipeline. They attempt to show this by providing a laundry list of statistics about the adverse conditions faced by Native Americans today, but the conclusion fails to connect the pieces. I can kind of see what they were going for, but it is such a white, colonial perspective and I found it to be a very ineffective way to make this point. Anyways, the policies of settler colonialism, assimilation, forced removal, and mass incarceration (plus I’ll throw capitalism & patriarchy into the mix, since I’m already editorializing) have huge and ongoing impacts on Indigenous people. Abolishing police and prisons won’t be enough to repair all the damage we’ve done as settlers and colonizers, but it would go a long fucking way.

***I decided to put this in scare quotes because I’m very skeptical of this claim. I don’t know enough about the situation in the US, but here in Canada, when the government says things like “restored tribal self-government” what they actually mean is “created a new system of tribal government that does not in any way resemble traditional indigenous governance structures, with limited scope and power and a structure that is familiar and does not threaten our settler-colonial understanding of the world”

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Fire at Heartland Colony destroys barn, kills thousands of pigs - Pipestone County Star

Fire at Heartland Colony destroys barn, kills thousands of pigs  Pipestone County Star from "smoking pipe" - Google News https://ift.tt/3gT1sAz via https://ift.tt/2Styk6f

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EARS TO THE GROUND

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER / PHOTOGRAPHY BY LOUISE JOHNS

Three hundred years ago, Blood Run was a hub of the Great Plains. The landscape architect Brenda Williams is helping guide tribal efforts to protect what’s left, mostly by listening.

FROM THE AUGUST 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.

On a cold, blustery morning last November, I followed an abandoned railroad grade to the South Dakota and Iowa state line. I had two maps in front of me—one an annotated paper printout, a collage of colors and lines overlaid on an old topo map, and the other Google Maps, open on my phone, my blue dot tacking southwest. I wasn’t lost. I was on a trail that did not yet exist.

The route, unmarked and at points choked by trees, had been outlined to me a few days earlier by Brenda Williams, ASLA, a landscape architect and director of preservation planning at Quinn Evans Architects in Madison, Wisconsin. Williams had recently led the development of a master plan for this area, an important but not widely known archaeological site known as Blood Run. The old railway was the proposed arrival sequence.

Typically, the few visitors who came to Blood Run, which became a National Historic Landmark in 1970, parked at the top of a bluff and followed a path down to the Big Sioux River, the state border. But Williams had been explicit: Take the railroad grade. Rather than start high, Williams wanted visitors to begin in the valley, to park and walk along the creek that gives the area its name before reaching the earthen mounds that are some of the site’s more visible cultural and historic remnants. It was, in part, a practical decision: The abandoned railroad provided a level path all the way from the main road to the mound grouping. But mostly it was about being immersed in the place, bringing people into the site with as few visual intrusions as possible, as few opportunities to break the spell.

To American tourists used to the grandeur of Yellowstone or Yosemite, the landscape at Blood Run may seem unremarkable: gentle bluffs covered in prairie grass, occasional stands of box elders and oaks, and, near the river, an old, stone farmstead, sunken in like a piece of rotted fruit. But as one member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska put it, “Even commonplace landscapes can have mythic importance. Blood Run is such a place.”

Blood Run has gone by many names over the years. A Sioux Falls physician, Frederick W. Pettigrew, called it the Silent City. The Omaha people called it Xe (pronounced breathily like khay), or the place “where something is buried.” It is unclear when or why it became known as Blood Run. Some think the name comes from the area’s ubiquitous pink Sioux quartzite, which could have turned the creek’s water red; another theory is that Blood was a surname. What is generally agreed upon is that Blood Run was not, as the name might suggest, a massacre site. Rather, it was a place of peace.

Several structures remain on site, visible from the existing path. Photograph by Louise Johns.

Blood Run is the largest and best-preserved historic site associated with what archaeologists call the Oneota cultural tradition, which is characterized by a style of shell-flecked pottery, though the term generally is not used by members of the many tribal nations—including the Ioway, Omaha, Ponca, Otoe, Missouria, Winnebago, Osage, and Kansa—that maintain ancestral connections to the area. According to tribal histories and archaeological evidence, the area once supported as many as 10,000 people. It was inhabited continuously from AD 1500 to 1714, a cultural and economic hub contemporaneous with the formation of the American colonies. Blood Run had barely even been established when Christopher Columbus mistook the Bahamas for the East Indies.

People from across the continent made stops here, trading pottery and later European goods for catlinite, a soft, red stone quarried some 50 miles to the north at what is now Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota. Tribes also traded ceremonies and songs. Randy Teboe, who until recently served as the director of cultural affairs for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, describes the city as a refuge, far from the conflicts erupting on the East Coast. Here, tribes built alliances that were called upon as they were driven from their homelands.

Today, there is little hint of that refuge. By the middle of the 20th century, 200 years of European settlement had nearly erased this one-time city. Of what had been hundreds of mounds, built for burial and ceremonial purposes, just 68 remained.

Image courtesy of Quinn Evans Architects.

In 1988, the governors of Iowa and South Dakota announced their intention to turn Blood Run into a bistate park. It would be a first for the United States, and a signature project of their administrations. Soon after, a bistate committee was formed to begin the planning process. In the decades since, both states have made significant progress toward that vision, though at significantly different paces. South Dakota, after acquiring 650 acres, designated its half of the site as Good Earth State Park in 2013 and in May dedicated a new visitor center. Across the river, Iowa owns just 183 acres. There are no facilities or campgrounds, just a mowed-grass path and a small metal sign.

That the two states find themselves at such different stages is a result of politics and funding, but also a difference in approach. For years, South Dakota’s efforts were embroiled in conflict between the state and its tribal consultants (formal representatives from those tribes with ancestral ties to the site), due in part to the pace of construction. The landscape bears the imprint of this rift. In South Dakota, new gravel paths trace the contour of the river bluff but are cut off from Blood Run’s most significant resources. Visitors in Iowa, meanwhile, have no access to the areas of highest elevation, places that, for tribal members, hold particular spiritual significance. Today, rather than a truly borderless, jointly managed bistate park, Blood Run is two distinct halves of a historical whole.

Brenda Williams works out of a small upstairs office in her house in Madison. She is midwestern to a tee, polite and self-effacing. She makes her own mustard. She has a husband, a son, and two cats, Sky and Moku (a reference to mokume gane, a Japanese method of metalworking), which wander in and out of her office. She is known for having, in the words of one tribal representative, the “patience of Job.”

In 2015, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) hired Williams to develop a cultural landscape master plan for its portion of the Blood Run site. By then, a series of conflicts and disagreements had left many of the tribal consultants distrustful of South Dakota’s state officials. Lance Foster, the tribal historic preservation officer, or THPO, for the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, was one of them. Foster lives in White Cloud, Kansas, and works out of his tribe’s government offices, a collection of red-brick buildings plopped onto the rural landscape. He’s a bear of a man, but more teddy than grizzly. In overalls and a short-sleeved, button-up shirt, he looks as if he’s been farming this corner of Kansas for his entire life. In fact, Foster is trained as an anthropologist, an artist, and a landscape architect. Before he moved to White Cloud, he taught painting, drawing, and archaeology at the University of Montana and published The Indians of Iowa, an overview of the dozens of tribes that once called the state home. It was Foster who wrote, in American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook, that commonplace landscapes like Blood Run can have “mythic importance.”

Marisa Cummings (left), an Omaha tribe member, near the remains of an old springhouse. Photograph by Louise Johns.

Foster consulted on both South Dakota’s and Iowa’s master plans. He says South Dakota’s officials presented the tribes with a mostly formed master plan and only then solicited comment. They also pursued a project schedule that did not allow for the customary consultation between a tribal consultant and his or her tribal council. “South Dakota had directions from their governor to rush ahead and get things done, which wasn’t always on a native timescale,” Foster says wryly. At one point, after a prominent South Dakota businessman questioned the importance of tribal involvement, Foster withdrew from the planning process.

Marisa Miakonda Cummings, an Omaha tribe member who has served as an official and unofficial consultant to both states, says the process was so “ugly” and disrespectful of her tribe that she threatened to organize a protest and shut down the entire project. “In our language, we have a word; it means, ‘They have no ears.’ They don’t listen,” Cummings says. “And that’s what was happening.”

In 2015, when those same tribe members were asked to attend a meeting for Iowa’s master plan, Cummings says she expected more of the same. “We were called to a meeting, and Brenda and her husband are there. And bless Brenda’s heart, we were just at her throat. Like, ‘What are you trying to give us? Show us whatever you’re trying to do,’” Cummings recalls. (Williams’s husband, Dan Williams, ASLA, is a landscape architect at Lunde Williams and a member of the project team.) “And she kept saying, ‘Well, that’s why we’re here. We’re waiting to hear what you have to say.’ And it took her probably half a day of saying that over and over again before we were like, ‘Oh, you really want to start from ground zero.’”

That posture, Cummings says, “created this entirely different dialogue about what would we really want? We want to educate people. We want to show them all of our biodiversity. We want to show that we weren’t roaming around just chasing a buffalo with a spear, but that we were agriculturalists. We were engineers. We were architects.”

Randy Teboe (second from left) walks the future state park with Brenda Williams, ASLA, (foreground) and tribal representatives. Photograph by Louise Johns.

It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Williams alone was responsible for the smoothness of Iowa’s master plan process. Dozens of factors were in play, including the two states’ disparate timelines, which gave the Iowa team an opportunity to learn from South Dakota’s missteps. Iowa also has a history of successful tribal engagement. In the 1970s, battles between archaeologists and indigenous rights activists led to the passage of the Iowa Burials Protection Act of 1976, the first U.S. law to specifically protect indigenous peoples’ remains. That law was a precursor to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. “They have really led the way,” Foster says of the state.

At Blood Run, IDNR wanted the engagement process to guide the master plan and was even willing to relinquish the idea of a bistate park. “[They] said, ‘We want you to tell us what it should be,” Williams says. In its RFP, the state asked design teams to visit the tribes at their homes, but Williams thought it equally important that the tribal representatives be on site as much as possible. She included money in her budget for representatives from the most closely associated tribes to travel to Blood Run.

Over the next year, the Iowa team—which included Iowa’s state archaeologist, as well as the archaeologist Dale Henning, who served as an adviser to the tribes—formed a close bond, joking and teasing one another. “It’s all about spending time with someone, one to one,” Foster says. “It’s not like a usual client situation. Spend a lot of time with us, get to know us as a person, as a friend, and we will find a way to make it work together.” With Williams, “we all became a team,” he says. “That’s how we saw ourselves.”

Iowa’s master plan, which covers some 3,880 acres, including property beyond the current National Historic Landmark boundary, calls for interpretative facilities, campgrounds, and a large bioreserve, complete with a herd of bison. The main trail—which currently cuts through the main mound grouping and leads to one of Blood Run’s unique pitted boulders, large chunks of Sioux quartzite covered in small, man-made divots—will be moved to protect these resources. New, low-impact secondary trails will be added, along with low platforms that will provide people enough height to see the mounds but will not damage them. Where trails cut through historic resources, they will feature a different material as a visual reminder to visitors that they are within a sensitive area. Some places of spiritual or cultural significance will be completely off-limits. Rather than draw attention to them through interpretation, the state will protect these areas by giving them wide berth.

Based on feedback from tribal representatives, the Iowa team also realized that it needed a long-range interpretation and education plan alongside the master plan. Iowa’s approach calls for interpretative facilities at every entrance to the park, to inform visitors how to conduct themselves on site and to provide occasions for reflection at the conclusion of a visit. It was important to many of the tribal representatives that the experience be fluid, changing with the seasons, much like the lives of those who lived at Blood Run.

Blood Run carves a course through a landscape of low terraces. Photograph by Louise Johns.

And then, of course, there is the need to stitch the site back together. “Obviously, if this is going to be a holistic place, there [need to be] ways to get across the river,” Williams says. “[We] can’t keep talking about South Dakota versus Iowa.” The design team analyzed potential bridge locations, including the old railroad abutment, which had a consistent grade on both sides and a possible connection to a regional bike trail. But some of the tribal representatives were horrified at the idea, Williams says, because the railroad cut through one of the area’s most dense concentrations of historic resources. “That was so huge for us to hear that,” Williams tells me. Eventually, a footbridge was suggested north of Iowa’s current entrance. “You need to have that connection, but it needs to be pedestrian,” she says. “No cars, no bikes.”

Despite the admittedly light hand Quinn Evans has employed, Williams says she has some trepidation. In a place that is so treasured, any intervention can feel intrusive. “There’s nothing there yet,” she says. “And yet all we can do is ruin it. That’s the fear of creating this thing.”

Williams has devoted her career to cultural landscapes like Blood Run, working with public clients such as IDNR and the National Park Service (NPS). “And that is where I belong,” she tells me. “I have this really insatiable desire to try to make things right with these places that are so special and that I feel like keep getting lost.” But exactly what it means to “make things right” has shifted for Williams over the years. Through projects like Blood Run, she’s gained a newfound appreciation for indigenous knowledge—and also seen it dismissed by government officials and even other designers. She’s been forced to confront her own ignorance and challenge business-as-usual approaches to “stakeholder engagement.” And she’s had to accept that, as a design professional, her rights extend only so far when it comes to a tribe’s particular beliefs and practices. “One of the points that I talk about is not asking for information,” she says. “Not ‘What is important?’ but ‘How do we protect what is important?’”

Recently, Williams has begun writing and speaking about her work, and she’s developed a checklist for landscape architects. Number one: Investigate whether or not a tribe was ever associated with a site. The answer may appear obvious, she says, but many tribes were forced from their homes, relocated to unclaimed territory. Tribes whose reservations today are in Kansas or Nebraska often maintain deep ties to lands hundreds of miles away. At Blood Run, associated tribes live as far away as Perkins, Oklahoma, 600 miles to the south.

Number two: Include tribal engagement in the project scope, even if just as an optional service. (When Williams has done so, the client has always added it in, she says.) Number three: Deal only with a formal representative who is authorized to speak on behalf of the tribe. This third point has been made simpler by the creation of the THPO (often pronounced “tippo”) role. Following centuries of disenfranchisement, in 1992, an amendment to the National Historic Preservation Act created the THPO program. Besides giving government agencies an official point of contact, a tribe’s THPO gained the authority to make preservation decisions on tribal lands, previously the jurisdiction of the state historic preservation officer. In 1996, with $958,500 from the National Historic Preservation Fund, 12 tribes hired their first THPOs. Today there are 171.

Federal funding has gone toward not just hiring but training the THPOs. This has opened up new professional opportunities for tribe members and provided a firmer foundation regarding the legal ins and outs of legislation like NAGPRA. Though the program has its shortcomings (a shrinking pot of money among them), THPOs have become crucial liaisons to both sides, translating their tribes’ protocols for the project team and the planning jargon for the tribal council.

“The good thing about having a THPO is that you usually encounter somebody who at least has some training, some awareness not only of culture and the law, but is also usually educated and willing to engage with the outside world,” Foster says.

Williams also advises her clients to build long-term relationships with tribal representatives, because questions that weren’t considered inevitably arise, and tribes should be involved. “There will be decisions about, ‘Can people come here and have a dog show? Is that offensive or not?’” she says.

Williams explained her philosophy as we trekked to the top of Effigy Mounds National Monument south of Harpers Ferry, Iowa, some 300 miles east of Blood Run. Williams completed a cultural landscape report for Effigy Mounds, which encompasses 2,500 acres along the Mississippi River, around the same time as she developed the master plan for Blood Run and worked with many of the same THPOs.

Effigy Mounds provides a glimpse into Blood Run’s future. The mounds that give the place its name—massive earthen structures, some more than 200 feet long, formed into the shapes of bears and birds—are easy to make out, thanks to a landscape treatment that provides contrast. Herbaceous plants are being encouraged atop the mounds, which will be burned on rotation, and grass around the mounds is mowed short to exaggerate the relief. Williams is recommending similar practices at Blood Run.

Effigy Mounds is also a testing ground for how to turn the management of cultural resources over to associated tribes, for whom the how is often as important as the what. At Effigy Mounds, for instance, certain trees need to be removed for the sake of the mounds, which can be damaged by falling limbs. But how those trees are cut down and hauled away is consequential, Williams says, because the trees are sacred too. Currently, protocols have been established to ensure sensitivity, but the hope is that these decisions will eventually be placed in the hands of the tribes—something Williams says could happen soon. The master plan for Blood Run recommends that IDNR do something similar where appropriate.

Working in these places has deepened Williams’s appreciation for just how personal they are. Albert LeBeau, the cultural resources manager at Effigy Mounds, is an archaeologist and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. He’s been part of an effort to improve relations between tribes and entities such as NPS and worked with Williams on the cultural landscape report. Growing up, he tells Williams and me, he attended a reservation school outside Missoula, Montana, where he felt “brainwashed” by history books that referred to indigenous people as “savages.” He became an archaeologist to protect his ancestors, whose bones continue to be desecrated. “When you go out on an island in the Missouri River, and you stop counting skulls at one hundred—when you see the skeleton of a baby, whose femurs have been removed and placed next to them in a skull-and-crossbones fashion—that’s why I do it,” he says.

A similar mission motivates Randy Teboe, who consulted at Blood Run on behalf of the Ponca and is now the cultural preservation director and THPO for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Teboe grew up in Nebraska in the foster care system, starved for a connection to his culture, he says. Eventually, he got a job with his tribe and soon after became the THPO. He first visited Blood Run several years ago, and immediately felt a personal connection. “I was out there by myself, and I could hear drums and singing. I went to a different part of the park, and I could smell food cooking. I know that’s some kind of Jedi stuff. But that’s the feeling that I got.” The way he understands it now is that his ancestors wanted him to grasp Blood Run’s importance. “They were speaking to me,” he says. “They were trying to show me the way.”

Williams put it this way: “This is way beyond the physical landscape. This is about sense of place as a part of the science of how we design places. It is not magic. It’s not weird spiritual hoo-ha.” It’s the only chance these places have of surviving, she says. If landscape architecture is to reckon with climate change or any of the myriad issues facing the planet, that effort “has to be informed by an equal understanding of the importance of culture,” she says. “American Indians, and the way they look at the world, can help us understand that.”

In January 2016, Williams was hired by South Dakota to assist the state in its engagement efforts as it developed the exhibits for its visitor center. It was confirmation that Iowa’s approach had worked, and that others had taken notice. Doug Hofer, who recently retired as the director of South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks, says Blood Run forced the state to reevaluate its approach to tribal consultation. “The state has a greater appreciation for both the skill and the passion that the tribes have to interpret their history and their culture accurately,” he says. “I think we’ve learned that the input that we get really is helpful to the final product. I’d go so far as to say it’s essential.”

The arrival of Jim Henning, the park manager of Good Earth State Park, also bodes well. Boyish and naturally curious, Henning was hired in summer 2016, inheriting a more positive template for how to work with tribal representatives. He sees in Williams someone to emulate. “She’s inspiring,” he says. “Her being a part of the conversation helped everybody. I think it helped Iowa, and I think it helped South Dakota.” Henning’s supervisors have encouraged him to visit the tribes on their homelands, and he recently spent a half day with the Ponca in Nebraska. “They have [a] connection to this place that I want to try to understand as best I can in order to respect that story,” Henning says. “If I’m not doing that, I shouldn’t be here, honestly.”

As for Iowa, the state is working to acquire the parcels of highest priority, but it will likely take years before the construction can begin. In the interim, much of the site remains unprotected, in the hands of private landowners. Still, many of those I spoke with expressed hope that each of the entities involved—the states, the tribes, the landowners—would continue to find common ground.

This is, after all, the meaning of “good earth.” The phrase comes from the Iowa word “MayanPi,” which means “to make peace,” Foster tells me. “To cause something to become good earth, that’s how we say to make peace.” Though finding a name has been controversial in itself, the goal, Foster says, was to find one that anyone, indigenous or otherwise, could say in their language. It was a gesture toward the land’s shared ownership, giving each tribe and state a way to claim a place that has been home for many. It also can be seen as a wish for the future, when Blood Run might once again be a place of peace.

Timothy A. Schuler writes about landscape architecture, ecology, and urban design. He lives in Honolulu. 

Project Credits Client State of Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, Iowa (Todd Coffelt). Landscape Architects Quinn Evans Architects, Madison, Wisconsin (Brenda Williams, ASLA, and Stephanie Austin, Associate ASLA); Lunde Williams, LLC, Madison, Wisconsin (Dan Williams, ASLA). Interpretative Planning Quinn Evans Architects, Washington, D.C. (Alyson Steele and Julia Siple). Consultants Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, Iowa City, Iowa (John Doershuk, Lara Noldner, John Hedden, Mary De La Garza); State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa (Jen Bancescu); Coolfire Conservation, Madison, Wisconsin (Paul West); Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, Macy, Nebraska (Marisa Miakonda Cummings and Thomas Parker); Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, White Cloud, Kansas (Lance Foster); Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Niobrara, Nebraska (Randy Teboe and Shannon Wright); Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Perkins, Oklahoma (Eagle McClellan); and the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Red Rock, Oklahoma (Galen Springer).

  from Landscape Architecture Magazine https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2017/09/26/ears-to-the-ground/

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Territory Maps

NEUTRAL TERRITORY//

1 - Meeting Space / Flower Field // A spread of wildflowers, this is a regular meeting space between the Colonies. Trades often take place here, from tanned rabbit hides to cooked mice to leather bracelets.

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CLOUDBURST TERRITORY//

2 - Cloudburst Camp // Set just a few feet away from the edge of the cliffs, Cloudburst Colony's camp offers little natural shelter. Instead, the cats have woven dens of brambles, flowers, and tall grasses to keep themselves warm, though their thick fur does a lot of the work.

3 - Heart Copse // The reason for the name of this little patch of trees has been long since lost to time. It's a nice place to find lark eggs, a nice treat among Cirrusi.

4 - Hare Meadows // A large meadow with tall grass. Hares make their homes here, and they make good meals should you catch them.

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PIPESTONE TERRITORY//

5 - Pipestone Camp // Should one approach the place where Pipers make their camp, they'd not see much. Tall trees, sure, their boughs scraping the sky, but very few cats. The true camp is a labyrinth of tunnels, dug below the trees and reinforced with stone.

6 - Scorched Hollow // A bare hollow, the ground scorched and brown.  Nothing grows here, and it makes a good training spot.

7 - Firefly Oak // A giant oak covered in Spanish moss.  A well-loved place for fireflies, it's almost magical to see in warm summer evenings.

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SHARED TERRITORY//

8 - Sheer Cliffs // Tall stone cliffs leading down to a small sandy beach. They're treacherous slopes, and can be deadly if you don't know exactly what you're doing.

9 - Ocean // Favoured by Cloudstone Colony and scorned by Pipestone Colony, the ocean is a tempermental mistress. Some days it's calm and blue, and others it's angry and grey.

10 - Sandy Beach // The sand here is so fine it's almost water, and so golden it's practically worth thousands.

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OUTSIDE TERRITORY//

11 - Frozen Wastelands / Mountains // Mountains encircling the Colony territories. They're tall and cold, imposing a border on the world.

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Colony Ranks

LEADER // The leader of Pipestone Colony takes on the name Piper to show their status, and the leader of Cloudburst Colony takes on the name Cloud. The leader watches over the Colony and ensures the health and happiness of all the cats. Unlike in canon Warriors, leaders don't recieve nine lives. Instead they must pass a trial to prove they're worthing of leading the Colony to their Clanmates.

SECOND // The second in command takes on the name Burst to show their status in Cloudburst Colony, and Stone in Pipestone Colony. They're in charge when the leader is incapacitated, and are the first choice of successor should the previous leader step down or die.

HISTORIAN // This cat keeps track of all the family lines within the Colony. It’s their job to ensure that there’s no intermingling, and it’s a very important job- without the Historian, whole bloodlines are lost. The Historian holds the Root title as a show of status.

HEALERS // These cats ensure the Colony is as healthy as possible. They take on plant-based names upon becoming full members.

TRAPPERS // These cats lay traps and go hunting- it’s their job to feed the Colony.

GUARDS // These cats are highly trained fighters and spend their time warding off predators like badgers and foxes.

TRAINEES // These cats are training to become a full member of their Colony! Trainees for each rank have a little nickname- Historian trainees are called Twig Paws, Healer trainees are called Herb Paws, Trapper trainees are called Snap Paws, Guard trainees are called Fang Paws, Hearth Keeper trainees are called Spark Paws, Seed Sower trainees are called Sprout Paws, Diver trainees are called Fin Paws, and Tempest trainees are called Wisp Paws. Trainees will spend two or three months training under all ranks until they show a particular skill or interest in one.

KITTENS // awh look at da baby

MENTORS // The oldest cats of the Colony, they’ve retired from their usual duties and live in relative peace within camp walls. They spend their time keeping the Colony’s history and traditions alive and giving advice to those who need it.

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Cloudburst Ranks

DIVERS // These cats are particularly skilled at swimming, and spend most of their days in the ocean catching fish, squid, and other prey. They have water-based names to show their status.

TEMPESTS // Tempests watch the sky with analytic eyes, tracking the weather and the movement of the clouds. They keep the camp safe, the dens warm, and the kittens under their watchful eyes. Some say that a particularly skilled Tempest could learn to control the weather, summoning rain and droughts with a single thought. They have sky-based names to show their status.

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Pipestone Ranks

HEARTH KEEPERS // These cats are in charge of keeping Pipestone Colony’s fires burning. Some claim to see omens and prophecies in the sacred flames! They ensure the camp and dens are safe and watch the kittens when their parents are away. They have fire-themed names to show their status.

SEED SOWERS // These cats are in charge of Pipestone Colony’s gardens. They have earth-themed names to show their status.

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I feel like the leader trials are unfair? Like, they're easier for divers and hearth keepers than anyone else.

Oh they absolutely are. While any Cirrus can swim and dive, Divers are specifically trained in that area and can hold their breaths for a lot longer. And while all Pipers know the basics of starting a fire and keeping it going, Hearth Keepers were, again, specifically trained to keep fires going as long as possible.

That's sort of the point, though. Divers and Hearth Keepers are traditionally favored in the leadership positions. While all the other ranks have important jobs and skills, Divers and Hearth Keepers are viewed as The Most Important (tm tm tm) outside of high ranks.

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Three truths for Piperhawk?

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She was tiny, when she was born. Smaller than even her littermates, who were born tiny themselves. The healers didn't think a single one of them would survive. Hawk was the only one who did.

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Hawk trained hard to be a guard. She'd had her heart set on the rank since a kitten, though most tried to persuade her to take a path more fitting of her small stature. No one realized how large Hawk would grow- least of all Hawk herself.

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She was never Second. No, that honor had belonged to Stonebeetle. He'd failed his Trial, and Hawk announced that she'd like to try next. It amused the whole Colony. Hawk was no Hearth Keeper; she was a Guard, and while she was most certainly an excellent one, she likely didn't have the skill to keep a fire lit for a few hours, let alone a whole night. Hawk, however, has made it a habit to surprise folks.

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now that the allegiances are posted, here's something i've wanted to do for a while!

3 truths!

based off of five truths by katiek101, send a character name and receive three truths about them!

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Allegiances

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Pipestone Colony

Leader Piperhawk -- A ginger and brown molly with tattered ears and yellow eyes.

Second Stonesong -- A dark brown molly with teal eyes.

Historian Rootbuzzard -- A very pale golden-brown trans tom with splashes of white on his fur.

Healers Yarrowspeckle -- A very dark reddish-brown tabby molly with a spiky-furred tail. Yewleap -- A black and orange tabby trans molly with large pointed ears. Tansyfang -- A tiny gray-brown tabby molly.

Heart Keepers Flameheart -- A brown tabby molly with green eyes. Burningapple -- A light ginger and white trans tom. Blazemoth -- A bright ginger tabby tolly with tufted ears. Kindlingfeather -- A ginger colorpoint molly with hazel eyes.

Seed Sowers Sandshimmer -- A golden speckled molly with cobalt blue eyes. Mudstrawberry -- A handsome red tom with blue eyes. Dustantler -- A pale reddish-brown tom with a bent tail.

Trappers Runningthrush -- A gold and cream tabby tom with stormy teal eyes. Fogbreeze -- A long-legged orange tabby molly with enormous blue-green eyes (Nursing Cricket). Sunpounce -- A bright ginger tom with silver eyes. Talonsage -- A messy-furred golden tom. Sleekspring -- A short chestnut brown tabby molly. Snarlhound -- A creamy brown tom with tiny white dash on his chest.

Guards Shadeoat -- A brown and ginger tolly with big pale paws. Spottedswan -- A dark brown and cream molly with black stripes. Strikedeer -- A very dark brown and white tabby tom. Stonelake -- A tall crow-black molly.

Trainees Stoat -- A tortoiseshell tabby tom with a stumpy white tail. Chirp -- A nimble red molly with sky-blue eyes. Blossom -- A golden-brown tabby molly.

Kittens Cricket -- A sturdy ginger and white tabby tom.

Mentors Willowred -- A well-groomed rose-cream tolly with bright hazel-green eyes. Wingturtle -- An old golden tabby molly with a broken spine and purple eyes. Stemquail -- A mottled brown molly with blue eyes. Shimmergoose -- A white and brown tabby tom with an unusually long tail.

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Cloudburst Colony

Leader Cloudmackerel -- A long-furred silver tabby tom with tufted ears.

Second Burstfern -- A white and grey tabby molly.

Historian Rootstride -- A silver colorpoint tabby molly with orange eyes.

Healers Fernrusset -- A blue-gray tabby trans tom with a black tail. Thistlefrost -- A silver colorpoint tabby trans molly. Brackenlight -- A gray and white tabby molly with black streaks in her fur. Ferncedar -- A blind tortoiseshell tom.

Divers Frostflurry -- A curly-furred, cream and gray tabby trans molly. Foamflutter -- A gray-brown tom with silver eyes. Streamplum -- A black and dark gray tabby tom with copper eyes. Currentbird -- A dark gray tabby molly with enormous blue-gray eyes.

Tempests Cloudwhisker -- A large sooty gray tabby trans tom with brown eyes. Stormharrier -- A Deaf silver and white molly with purple-grey eyes.

Trappers Crowstripe -- A smoky black tabby trans molly with a pale belly and one mismatched eyes. Jumpspider -- A strong creamy white tabby molly. Hopblizzard -- A light gray and brown tom with long, wild fur. Springelm -- A slim black and gray tabby molly. Brightjuniper -- A pure white tom with a dark muzzle.

Guards Strikeotter -- A light gray colorpoint tabby trans molly. Darkoak -- A heavily scarred black and orange molly with stormy purple-gray eyes (Nursing Petal & Partridge). Clawshiver -- A pale gray colorpoint tom with purple-gray eyes.

Trainees Mistle -- A scrappy silver colorpoint tabby tom with golden eyes. Pipit -- A grey molly with brown and white patches.

Kittens Petal -- A skinny brown tabby molly. Partridge -- A tall white and silver tabby tom.

Mentors Pathmoon -- A sleek pale pinkish-cream tom. Darkbadger -- A black and white tom with a missing eye.

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Other Characters

Wisp -- A scrappy white tom. Tomato -- A dull brown tabby molly with blue eyes. Honey -- A long-furred golden molly. Gene -- A small white and light brown trans tom. Luke -- A white and gray tabby tom with one missing eye. Myrtle -- A powerful ginger tom with mismatched eyes.

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DNA & Lineages

The beach is a common place for ships to stop and rest. Given the superstition that cats are good luck on boats, there’s a fair amount of toms and mollies who make their way through, and sometimes even join the Colonies. It’s a nice way to get fresh DNA into the community.

Cloudburst's lineage is alive and well, with his descendant Mackerel leading the Colony. Pipestone's lineage, however, has long since died out, the last of her line a tolly named Sparkwren.

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Pipestone Colony

"Catlinite, also called pipestone, is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux Quartzite."

-- Catlinite, Wikipedia

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Cats living in Pipestone Colony, often called Pipers, tend to have red, yellow, and brown pelts. They’re small and thin-furred, and worship fire and earth. They believe that life cannot continue without earth, and that fire is important in the cycle of life.

Pipers use fire to cook their prey and keep themselves warm during the winter, something unique to them. All Pipers also have basic knowledge of gardening, and like to use seasonings when they cook!

Pipers believe that earth is the source of all life, and fire is a restorative thing that keeps life in check. Water and air are important, sure, but not moreso than earth and fire. Fire gives warmth and light even in the coldest of nights, and earth grows the things prey eat.

When becoming leader, a Piper must prove their worth by keeping a fire lit on the beach throughout the night. Hearth Keepers watch the prospective leader throughout the trial to ensure that no cheating takes place. Should they fail, a vote will follow to select the next candidate for leader.

Pipestone's special ranks are Hearth Keepers and Seed Sowers. Seed Sowers are in charge of the gardens, growing anything from medicinal plants to herbs to flowers. They hold earth-themed names to show their status. Hearth Keepers are in charge of keeping the Colony's sacred fires burning. Some claim to see omens and prophecies in the flames... They keep the camp safe and the dens warm, and watch kittens while their parents are away, and have fire-themed names to show their status.

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CURRENT HIGH RANKS//

Leader-- Piperhawk

Second-- Stonesong

Historian-- Rootbuzzard

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Fire at Heartland Colony destroys barn, kills thousands of pigs - Pipestone County Star

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Fire at Heartland Colony destroys barn, kills thousands of pigs - Pipestone County Star

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