What Lies Beneath: Wildfires and Indigenous Fire Knowledge By Sarah M. Pike “Follow the smoke,” Ali Meders-Knight told a group of us who had gathered at a local coffee shop to hear about Indigenous environmental Read more…
White Supremacy at the Farmers’ Market By Sarah M. Pike Political polarization has been increasing since the election of President Donald Trump, whose xenophobic views have emboldened white supremacists. On college campuses, violent attacks from Read more…
Climate Strikes as Rituals to Save the Earth By Sarah M. Pike Last month, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world walked out of classrooms and into the streets to draw attention to Read more…
Why Endangered Species Need Patron Saints By Sarah M. Pike With some of my students, I bent down to fill a cup and drink from Saint Gobnait’s holy well in the woods near Ballyvourney, a Read more…
Memorializing in the Aftermath of Disaster By Sarah M. Pike Car keys dangled on the white chain link fence. A note next to them read “These keys made our lives so fabulous…Cars and a house—it’s Read more…
Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise By Sarah Pike On the morning of November 8, 2018, the world turned silver and a shadow of its normal self. A black cloud of smoke from the Camp Read more…
The Flint Knapper Who Cried “Snake” By Sarah Pike During the Closing Circle of Rabbitstick Primitive Skills Gathering, a flint knapper (who shapes rocks by hand to make stone tools) asked the participants, “How do Read more…
