![Children swinging on the pond’s banyan tree. Image courtesy of the author.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Image-5_Swinging-under-Dhamori-Banyon-Tree-1-scaled.jpg?fit=330%2C248&ssl=1)
![Children swinging on the pond’s banyan tree. Image courtesy of the author.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Image-5_Swinging-under-Dhamori-Banyon-Tree-1-scaled.jpg?fit=330%2C248&ssl=1)
![Intersections of roads, railroads, drainage, and river. Image courtesy of Sergio Souza.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sergio-souza-T6mIoplwrgM-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=330%2C186&ssl=1)
Introduction to Issue Sixteen
![Along the Flamingo Arroyo Wash and Bike Trail where the wetland is fed primarily by urban runoff. Image courtesy of the author.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/earthen-water-channel.jpg?fit=330%2C181&ssl=1)
Invisible Infrastructure: Documenting the Hidden Flood Control Infrastructure in Las Vegas
![Scorched vegetation inside the Maya Biosphere Reserve at the Archaeological site of El Peruito following attempts to illegally invade the area in 2017. Image courtesy of Ever Sánchez of the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala (IDAEH).](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG-20170411-WA0025.jpg?fit=330%2C186&ssl=1)
Science 101: Teaching Scientific Anthropology in the Age of “Alternative” Facts
![Carrying rushes from the river. Image courtesy of the author.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DSC_0151-scaled-e1583100667261.jpg?fit=330%2C211&ssl=1)
Flood Narratives of the Lower Subarnarekha River Corridor, India
![Figure 4. Slab-on-grade house that flooded, Flood water is shown surrounding the house and coming all the way up to the structure. Ascension Parish. August 2016. Image courtesy of the author.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fig4.jpg?fit=330%2C218&ssl=1)
Eroding Memories and Erecting Risk on the Amite River
![The urban Mississippi River flowing by downtown Saint Paul. Image courtesy of Nattapol Pornsalnuwat.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Pic1_jpeg-scaled.jpg?fit=330%2C186&ssl=1)
The Urban Mississippi: Valuing Connections in a Changing Climate
![The Colorado River is visible in the distance through a light haze under blue sky, at the base of the Grand Canyon's walls in its inner gorge. Foreground shows the high desert terrace.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IMG_0536-River-from-Tonto-1-scaled.jpg?fit=330%2C248&ssl=1)
Time in the Canyon
![The quieter side of the bridge over the Red Lake River in downtown Crookston, Minnesota. Image courtesy of Caryn Mohr.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Red-Lake-River-bridge.jpg?fit=330%2C248&ssl=1)
Water and Equity
Water has long played an important role in my life. In fact, it played a role in my very beginning. Like all of you, I first lived in a water environment, then was born into this world. A few weeks later, I was baptized with water. This sacrament joins me with many others that share my faith traditions, and water is sacred in many traditions.
![A sunset on Mille Lacs Lake as seen from Father Hennepin State Park near Isle, Minnesota. Image courtesy of Tom Webster (CC-BY-2.0).](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/A_beautiful_scenic_sunset_on_Mille_Lacs_Lake_Minnesota_28982171863-e1706762903383.jpg?fit=330%2C220&ssl=1)
Misi-zaaga’iganing (Mille Lacs Lake)
Mille Lacs Lake is the second largest lake in Minnesota and archaeological evidence suggests that it was one of the first areas that humans settled in the region. Many different groups of people have called the area around the lake home. A number of Native American tribes have lived around the lake throughout time.