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Selected Writings<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

10 Reasons Why ICE is Harassing Native Americans<\/a>, on ZNet, Counterpunch, Countercurrents, Peace & Planet News<\/em> (1\/12\/26). Podcast interview<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Escalation of this War Could Shatter Iran into Ethnic Enclaves<\/a>, on Counterpunch <\/em>(2\/28\/26).<\/p>\n

A Brief History of U.S. Military Interventions Within the United States<\/a>, on ZNet, Counterpunch, Janata Weekly<\/em> (6\/13\/25).<\/p>\n

When Disasters Create Unlikely Alliances,<\/a> in Z\u00f3calo Public Square, Bangkok Post.<\/em> (3\/10\/25).<\/p>\n

Tribal Collaborations in Developing Place-Based Pedagogies for Public-Facing Student Projects.<\/a> The Professional Geographer <\/em>(1\/21\/25).
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Lessons of Kristallnacht, \u201cCivil War,\u201d and Mass Deportation<\/a>, on Counterpunch, ZNet. <\/em>Podcast <\/a>& Radio interview <\/a><\/em>(11\/24).<\/p>\n

Co-authored book review<\/a> of Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection<\/em>, by Brandon B. Derman. The AAG Review of Books<\/em> 12(2) (4\/24).<\/p>\n

Walter Bresette recognized for protecting fish, building bridges<\/a>, with Debra McNutt in Capital Times<\/em>, Madison WI (2\/4\/24).<\/p>\n

The Resilience Doctrine: A Primer on Disaster Collectivism in the Climate & Pandemic Crises<\/a>, 4-part article series on Counterpunch<\/em> (2\/21).<\/p>\n

Book review of Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillion’s edited collection Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement<\/em>, in Monthly Review<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1\/1\/21).<\/p>\n

Chapter on “Indigenous Methods” (with Renee Pualani Louis) in Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students<\/em><\/a>, Eds., Helen F. Wilson & Jonathan Darling (SAGE Publishing) (1\/21).<\/p>\n

Denial of American Fascism Has Cost Us Dearly<\/a>, on Common Dreams <\/em>(1\/7\/21).<\/p>\n

Why Far-Right Paramilitaries are Not Just \u201cVigilantes,\u201d<\/a> on Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Z <\/em>(10\/4\/20).
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

10 Reasons Why Defunding Police Should Lead to Defunding War<\/a>, with Medea Benjamin, on Salon, Common Dreams, Code Pink, <\/em>etc. (6\/15\/20).
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Deploying Federal Troops in a War at Home Would Make a Bad Situation Worse: A Partial History of Military Interventions in the U.S.<\/a>, on Counterpunch, Z <\/em>(6\/2\/20).<\/p>\n

Washing Our Hands of Trump and Powerlessness<\/a> (about pandemic), on Common Dreams, Z, Counterpunch<\/em> (3\/12\/20).
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

“Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands<\/a>,” The Conversation<\/em> (5\/16\/19); reprinted by AP, UPI, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Seattle Press-Intelligencer, Los Angeles Post, Waging Nonviolence, Raw Story, etc. Spanish translation in El Salto<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Native\/Non-Native Alliances: Challenging Fossil Fuel Industry Shipping at Pacific Northwest Ports<\/a>,” In Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing<\/em><\/a>, Eds., Jonathan Clapperton & Liza Piper (University of Calgary Press, 2019).<\/p>\n

\u201cM\u0101ori Opposition to Fossil Fuel Extraction in Aotearoa New Zealand<\/a>\u201d in Racial Ecologies<\/em><\/a>, Nishime, Leilani, and Kim D. Hester Williams, eds. (University of Washington Press, 2018).<\/p>\n

“Fascism Denial Ignores Some Inconvenient Truths<\/a>,” Counterpunch<\/em> (10\/30\/18).<\/p>\n

\u201cFusing Identity and Class Politics in \u201cTrumpland\u2019<\/a>,\u201d Common Dreams<\/em> (1\/3\/17).<\/p>\n

\u201cQuinault Nation builds bridges to stop Grays Harbor oil terminal<\/a>,\u201d Works in Progress<\/em> (12\/8\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Get to You, He Must Go Through Us<\/a>,\u201d Indian Country Today<\/em> (11\/22\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic Servants or Corporate Security?: An Open Letter to Law Enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota<\/a>,\u201d with Winona LaDuke & Army Colonel Ann Wright (Ret.), Indian Country Today & Common Dreams <\/em>(11\/2\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are the Cowboys in the Standing Rock Standoff?<\/a>,\u201d Counterpunch<\/em> (9\/20\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201cReport from Standing Rock,\u201d<\/a> photo albums (9\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kindness of Strangers: Today\u2019s Refugees in Hungary and My Family during WWII<\/a>,\u201d Common Dreams<\/em> (11\/21\/15).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cowboy Indian Alliance Rises to Protect Our Common Land and Water<\/a>,\u201d Common Dreams<\/em> (4\/23\/14).<\/p>\n

“Decolonizing Landscapes: Unlikely Alliances Grow Resilience at the Grassroots<\/a>,” in Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: in Diversifying our Methods (WIS2DOM) Workshop Report to National Science Foundation (2014), pp. 52-55.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Wounded Knee to Syria: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions<\/a>,\u201d updated list (2017).<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlikely Alliances: Idle No More and Building Bridges Through Native Sovereignty<\/a>,\u201d Z magazine, Counterpunch, Unsettling America <\/em>(6\/11\/13).<\/p>\n

Native Resilience and Interethnic Cooperation: How Natives are adapting to climate change, and helping their non-Native neighbors follow suit<\/a>. Interview in Read the Dirt<\/em> (8\/8\/13).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Achilles Heel of the Fossil Fuels Monster<\/a>,\u201d Works in Progress<\/em> (12\/10\/12).<\/p>\n

\u201cGuidelines for Working with Native Communities<\/a>,\u201d Revitalizing Community program, The Evergreen State College (2012).<\/p>\n

Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis<\/em><\/a>, edited by Zolt\u00e1n Grossman and Alan Parker; Foreword by Billy Frank Jr. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n

\u201cNo Longer the Miner\u2019s Canary: Indigenous Nations\u2019 Responses to Climate Change<\/a>,\u201d Terrain<\/em> (10\/2\/12).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Native Renaissance of Washington Tribal Nations<\/a>,\u201d Association of American Geographers Newsletter<\/em> (11\/10).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Global War on Tribes: Return to \u2018Indian Country\u2019<\/a>,\u201d Z magazine <\/em>(6\/2\/10).<\/p>\n

\u201cGeographic Controversy over the Bowman Expeditions \/ M\u00e9xico Ind\u00edgena<\/a>,\u201d edited links (2010).<\/p>\n

\u201cDeclaration of Key Questions about Research Ethics with Indigenous Communities,\u201d<\/a> as Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group<\/a> of the Association of American Geographers (2010).<\/p>\n

“Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities<\/a>,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal<\/em>, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2005).<\/p>\n

“Defending a Common Home: Native\/non-Native Alliances Against Mining Companies in Wisconsin<\/a>,” chapter with Dr. Al Gedicks, in In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, & the Environment<\/em> (London: Zed Press, 2004).<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Enemies to Allies,\u201d<\/a> with Debra McNutt, ColorLines<\/em> (Spring 2001).<\/p>\n

“Kosovo, <\/a>Apaches, and Ethnic Cleansing<\/a>,” The Circle, Zmag.org, Synthesis\/Regeneration <\/em>(1999).<\/p>\n

Wisconsin’s Past and Present: A Historical Atlas<\/em><\/a>, by the Wisconsin Cartographers\u2019 Guild; Introduction by William Cronon (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998; 2nd<\/sup> ed. 2002).<\/p>\n

\u201cChippewa Train Blockade Upsets Mining Plans<\/a>,\u201d Progressive<\/em> (10\/96).<\/p>\n

\u201cIndian Treaty Rights<\/a>,\u201d in When Hate Groups Come to Town: A Handbook of Effective Community Responses<\/em> (Atlanta: Center for Democratic Renewal, 1992).<\/p>\n

“Letter from a European Rights Activist<\/a>,” speculative fiction on Native American invasion of Europe (1992).<\/p>\n

Articles on Wisconsin treaty rights<\/a>: \u201cWisconsin Treaty Conflict: No End in Sight,\u201d Z Magazine<\/em> (7-8\/90); \u201cTreaty Support Grows in the Face of Right-Wing Violence,\u201d Guardian<\/em> (3\/31\/89); \u201cWorld Is Watching: International Support Growing for Wisconsin Chippewa,\u201d News from Indian Country<\/em> (11\/90).<\/p>\n

Midwest Treaty Network archives<\/a> (1989-2006)<\/p>\n

\u201cInside the Philippine Resistance<\/a>,\u201d Race and Class<\/em> 28, no. 2 (1986): 1\u201329.<\/p>\n

Other writings<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Selected Presentations & Interviews<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

VIDEO<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (1:09) of book reading at Elliot Bay Book Co.<\/a>, Seattle WA (1\/26\/18).<\/p>\n

VIDEO of 2025 Evergreen graduation faculty speech<\/a> (6\/13\/25).<\/p>\n

\u201cTribal Disaster Resilience, Climate Change, and the Move to Higher Ground on the Washington Coast,<\/a>\u201d remotely to the American Association of Geographers (AAG) (4\/17\/24).<\/p>\n

\u201cOlympia\u2019s Hidden Histories\u201d: Tribal Collaboration in StoryMaps Walking Tours<\/a>, to the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Denver, on the series of four StoryMaps walking tours <\/a>(3\/26\/23) and Native American and Indigenous Studies Associaiton (NAISA), Toronto.<\/p>\n

Evergreen Indigenous Geography and Climate Projects<\/a>, to Critical Edge Alliance<\/a> conference (Paris), Evergreen student orientation, Sustainability Across Regions series (Germany), and \u201cWashington Tribes: Leading the Way to Combat Climate Change\u201d conference (at Squaxin Island Tribe\u2019s Little Creek Resort).<\/p>\n

Removing Barriers: Restoring Salmon Watersheds through Tribal Alliances,<\/em> <\/a>(20 min.) to American Association of Geographers (AAG) on a 132-page book<\/a> produced by Winter 2022 students of \u201cConceptualizing Place: Pacific Northwest Native Art and Geographies\u201d at The Evergreen State College (2\/28\/22).<\/p>\n

The Resilience Doctrine: Disaster Collectivism in the Climate & Pandemic Crises<\/a>, 2-part lecture to Evergreen’s Pandemic Academy<\/a> (4\/7\/20).<\/p>\n

Interview about territorial and ethnic borders on Left Ungagged<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(12\/8\/19).<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Public Radio interview<\/a> on the \u201cCentral Time\u201d program, 15 minutes, Madison, WI (12\/1\/17).<\/p>\n

KEXP interview about Unlikely Alliances<\/em><\/a>, Mind Over Matters Sustainability Segment, Seattle (7\/8\/17)<\/p>\n

“Mapping, Indigenous Research Ethics, and the ‘Global War on Tribes’,<\/a>” presentation to the University of Victoria Department of Geography, B.C.; Powerpoint<\/a> (2\/24\/17).<\/p>\n

\u201cWater is Life Forum<\/a>,\u201d video of presentation at The Evergreen State College Longhouse, starts at 5:33:30 (1\/23\/17).<\/p>\n

\u201cFascist Movements as Competitors for White Hearts and Minds<\/a>,\u201d Forum on Post-Election Future, The Evergreen State College (10\/20\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>The Resilience Doctrine: Disaster Cooperativism in the Climate Crisis<\/a>,\u201d video of presentation to Anthropocene Consortium Series, The Evergreen State College (2\/17\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018Extractocene\u2019 Era<\/a>,\u201d video of presentation at \u201cWhat Does it Mean to Say Anthropocene?\u201d panel, Anthropocene Consortium Series, The Evergreen State College, starts at 06:30 (2\/3\/16).<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em><\/a>Introduction<\/a>\u201d video of presentation to Indigenous Climate Justice Symposium<\/a>, The Evergreen State College Longhouse (11\/6\/15).<\/p>\n

\u201cWinona LaDuke interviews Zolt\u00e1n Grossman on Unlikely Alliances<\/a>,\u201d KKWE Niijii Radio, White Earth, Minn. (7\/2\/14).<\/p>\n

\u201cMaori Opposition to Fossil Fuel Development in Aotearoa New Zealand<\/a>,\u201d presentation to Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2015).<\/p>\n

\u201cNative Resistance to the Fossil Fuel Industry in the Pacific Northwest<\/a>,\u201d presentation to Association of American Geographers and Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2014).<\/p>\n

Testimony<\/a> video to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources hearing on GTAC’s proposed Penokees iron mine, Hurley WI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis<\/a>,\u201d video of TEDx talk at The Evergreen State College (4\/16\/12).<\/p>\n

\u201cRich Tribes, Rich Jews: Comparing the New Anti-Indianism to Historic Anti-Semitism<\/a>,\u201d presentation to the Association of American Geographers (2005).<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Who’s the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim?\u2019:<\/a> Intersections between Indigenous and Immigrant Geographies<\/a>,\u201d presentation to Association of American Geographers and Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2010).<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Nisqually to Iraq: Placemaking and Reclaiming Space at Fort Lewis<\/a>,\u201d presentation to the Association of American Geographers (2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cRemoval Reversed: Native\/Non-Native Joint Management of Reclaimed Lands<\/a>,\u201d presentation to the Association of American Geographers (2003).<\/p>\n

Other presentations<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Evergreen Projects<\/h2>\n

Removing Barriers: Restoring Salmon Watersheds through Tribal Alliances,<\/em>\u00a0<\/a> 132-page book<\/a> produced by students of \u201cConceptualizing Place: Pacific Northwest Native Art and Geographies\u201d (2021).<\/p>\n

Indigenous Climate Justice Symposiums<\/a> (2015 & 2017)<\/p>\n

Fossil Fuel Connections website<\/a> (Resource Rebels students, 2016).<\/p>\n

Economic Options in Grays Harbor<\/em> report <\/a>(Resource Rebels students, 2016); Evergreen Magazine<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Class visits to Aotearoa New Zealand reports (Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim, 2011<\/a>, 2015<\/a>, 2018<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Nisqually Watershed Podcasts<\/a> (Conceptualizing Native Place students, 2009).<\/p>\n

Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Project<\/a> (2006-?).<\/p>\n

Class syllabi and readings<\/a><\/h2>\n

Community Service Work & Awards<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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