By Joanne Richardson The PulseAugust 3, 2016

Headwaters Region Guide Highlights Life Where the Mississippi River Begins

Cover of 'Headwaters Region Guide' by Dean Klinkenberg.

A guide to the Mississippi River’s uppermost stretch reveals a river that very few people think of when they think “Mississippi River.”

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Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 27 | Prospect

Reading these articles, I returned to the idea that these authors are offering us the prospect of seeing the conditions of our environment a...

By Laurie Moberg, Editor

Feature (Peer Review)

Rivers as Creative Ecologies

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson. We explore how activists, artists, scholars, and rivers might co-create riverine engagements that interrupt the extractive capitalist, heteropatriarchal,...

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson

Feature (Peer Review)

Big Stone Lake Stories: Crossing Borders

By Jonee Kulman Brigham. Earth Systems Journey is foremost a form of participatory public art and secondly an environmental education curriculum model. Big Stone...

By Jonee Kulman Brigham

Feature

Fluid Impressions: Connecting Data and Storytelling in Iowa’s Watersheds

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge. As we contend with the environmental degradation...

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge

Geographies

Narmada Parikrama

By Vivek Ji. The waters of the Narmada River flow as though carrying a divine grace, ancient wisdom, and a sense of spirituality. This...

By Vivek Ji

In Review

All We Can Save

By Marceleen Mosher. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine...

By Marceleen Mosher

Perspectives

From Symbol of Wisdom to Inducer of Anxiety: The Ganga Dichotomy

By Saloni Shokeen. The River Ganga, arising from the Western Himalayas and flowing through India and Bangladesh, covers an immense distance of 2,525 kilometers...

By Saloni Shokeen

Primary Sources

Owámniyomni: Still We Gather

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager. Mni Wičoni. Water is life. For many of us, water truly is synonymous with life—and not...

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager

Teaching and Practice

Do You Know Where You Are?

By Laura Rockhold. Over recent years I have been on a journey, one that has deepened my understanding of, and engagement with, the Indigenous...

By Laura Rockhold

More Stories

"Niimaamaa" sculpture in Winnipeg by artists KC Adams, Jaimie Isaac and Val Vint (2018). Image courtesy of Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez.

Women & Water: Inspiration and Resources

By Racquel Banaszak, Caroline Doenmez, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Becky Jacobs, Shannon LeBlanc, Phyllis Mauch Messenger, Lee Vue, and Anne Whitehouse Note from the Editor…