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Who are the Sandbagger News? The great flood of 1997 in the Red River Valley of the North triggered the largest evacuation of US citizens since the Civil War, a record it held until 9/11.
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Sandbagger News produces news media & social science research within three distinct hoops:
wildlifer
log
exploring the
human-environment
relationship
The Steger Wilderness Center is an environmental arts organization dedicated to preserving the natural landscapes of Minnesota and its artistic folk-trade traditions. Training apprentice artisans for employment in the developing trades-work economy of the Iron Range is currently the primary purpose of our non-profit.
The Western Meadowlark is the state bird of North Dakota. Like the human cultures that have grown on the landscape for millennia, the wildlife and natural ecosystem have depended on native tall grass prairie. Today, it's nearly all gone from the state. Soon, the meadowlark may be too.
The Hudson Bay Project team heads south of camp to collect eggshells of eider ducks and snow geese for DNA extraction. Along the way, they sing to keep the polar bears at bay...
In his first book, "The Singing Wilderness," famed nature writer Sigurd F. Olson revealed the transformative power of wilderness. Now more than 50 years later, musical artist Willow Bardlark brings new life to Sig's words by singing them at Listening Point, the author's home in the wild northwoods of Minnesota.
Scientists, journalists, and communicators gathered in San Francisco in October 2017 for the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists to discuss the ethics of their professions. This session is a debate set up to loosely resemble the United Kingdom's House of Commons and encourage debate on touch ethical questions science journalists face in their work.
Harm Reduction Report
compassionate
action to end the
war on drugs
Watch MeiLi Smith's documentary, "Faded", about substance abuse and overdose in Grand Forks, North Dakota: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3582911335&feature=iv&src_vid=U2zVFIVgLyI&v=1S1qYjK3F0A
"There's a lot of weird things we have embedded in this culture...We have a communication gap." - MeiLi Smith
Willard TeaBelly reads a series of Dakota Student newspaper articles written by a sandbagger named Larry Philbin, who passed away this week.
After a three-year hiatus, the Women's Visionary Council convened its 11th Congress, this time at the Omni Commons in Oakland, California for a transformative weekend in June 2019. Here gathered hundreds of participants to watch twenty-four activists, researchers, healers and artists present their work promoting women and their allies to create groundbreaking strategies for healing and social change.
In San Francisco, Willard TeaBelly attends a series of memorials in honor of the recently deceased poet/activist John Perry Barlow. Most known for his work founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation - a non-profit organization advocating for a free and open internet for all - and writing songs for the Grateful Dead - a band in part responsible for the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s - Barlow was an essential bridge between these diverse counter-culture communities.
Join Ethan Currens as he leads a lesson in safely and affordably weighing and measuring potent substances at the Women's Visionary Council's 2018 Risk Reduction Workshop in Nevada City, California.
Willard TeaBelly leaves the wilderness and moves to Colorado. What can the state teach North Dakotans about their upcoming vote on legal cannabis?
Listen to 'Faces of Stigma' - a 23-minute video produced by the City of Grand Forks Public Health department and your friends at the Harm Reduction Report.
stories of the
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The story of one family from Iceland leaving home, becoming Americans, and rediscovering their heritage. Dedicated to the best amma in the world. https://www.icelandicroots.com/
Telling tales of culture & the
twisting intersections of identity
Anishinaabe rapper Thomas X reporting on the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline from the Red Warrior Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. -- Sincerely, Sandbagger News
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www.SandbaggerNews.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/sandbaggernews/ Students from the University of North Dakota travel to Winnipeg, Manitoba to learn about Francophone culture. The Festival du Voyageur celebrates international culture and breaking borders for the betterment of all. Louis Riel is an example for aspiring French language learners.
In Grand Forks, North Dakota, students meet at Central High School to discuss how writing and reading can be tools to positively drive both personal and societal change. Award-winning young adult author Andrew Smith gives the keynote speech.
In partnership with the City of Fort Collins, the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University held this public forum on the impacts of air quality on human health called "The Air We Breathe" on March 7, 2019.
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