Selected Archived Articles

In the 1990s and early 2000s, I wrote frequently on issues that led to the project of Inherited Silence. Most of this work appeared in peace and justice media that have no online presence today. So here are a few selections:

In 2008, I wrote about our nation’s ongoing “battleground mentality” in a piece about Chief Joseph and a “National Battlefield” in Montana that I’d visited driving across the country.

In 2002, I wrote about Rev. Jun Yasuda, a Japanese Buddhist nun with a remarkable connection to the Native people who are healing from genocide on this continent.

In 1993, I wrote about Native American personal and sacred objects, stolen by collectors, some from Wounded Knee Massacre victims, which had surfaced in a small town museum in Massachusetts—and the movement to repatriate them.

In 1991, I was asked by the editor of Peacework (American Friends Service Committee) to write on how activists could counter white supremacy as we faced the quincentennial celebrations of Columbus (and colonization) that were expected in 1992.

In this same period, I also wrote an “Herb of the Month” column for my local food coop newsletter, Harvest Times. Most of these columns focused on indigenous as well as modern uses of plant medicines.