Record-breaking rainfall across the Midwest has washed tons of fertilizer and sewage water along the Mississippi and into the Gulf of Mexico, contributing to a larger polluted area than ever.
… the River is also a place upon and a relationship with whom we might also build relations of kinship and reciprocity with Dakota and Ojibwe communities in the shared hopes of together building new / old ways of knowing and being for a more just future, one that flows from renewing proper relations in decidedly Indigenous terms.