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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
BEAVERS to the Rescue
A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.
Rebecca Jim
Apr 73 min read
JUSTICE
“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." –Marcus Aurelius
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
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Tommy Bear
With summer, my Dad would often quote the poem one of his classmates wrote when they were very young children. The poem was not about the...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 4, 20223 min read
Be Brave
In the privacy of your car there is a thing you can do. Drive down Main Street, like usual, but when you are alone in your car, slow down,...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 21, 20224 min read
The Game
There are lots of comparisons to life itself being a "game." But the greatest example I am aware of is played in our area and was being...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 17, 20223 min read
Dams Can Be Removed
"There are places you will remember"... are words from a song you may remember. But the places you remember, yours and mine, may differ...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 5, 20223 min read
Think WATERSHEDS
We can get our head around the Tar Creek watershed, we know those ephemeral streams who catch up to her and add their flows to her...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 31, 20223 min read
Bales of Hay
Since I became LEAD Agency's Tar Creekkeeper, recognized by the Waterkeeper Alliance for being her best advocate, I have struggled to get...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 24, 20223 min read
Ground Glass
I recycle my glass. It hasn't been easy since the place in Vinita folded and quit taking any. We have all hoped Red Cedar or the City of...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 17, 20223 min read
A Real Summer
It has begun. A real summer. Like the ones we remember, those hot and drier days that barely cool even deep in the night. These are the...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 17, 20223 min read
Exposome
It isn’t a place or a brand new museum. You don’t go there to explore. Perhaps you might think of it as a way to explain us. Who we are,...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 17, 20223 min read
Actively Speaking
As an environmental activist, my life has focus on air, water and soil. Each are gifts from the Creator. All elements we need for...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 26, 20223 min read
Raw Feelings
When we prick our finger, when we scrape our knee, when we experience a bump in the night and see our bruise in the morning. The evidence...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 18, 20224 min read
Page and Rage Rhyme
There are take aways. There are impressions. There are moments. There was silence. The anticipated rage wasn't there. The implication is...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 18, 20223 min read
True Loves
The book I hadn't written had a chapter that ended only yesterday. Themed as a love story, compiled by the chapters of couples who lived...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 6, 20224 min read
Town Hall
The ground is saturated and the gardens lay waiting to dry out and be what they were planned to be. Maybe we all hope to be what we were...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 6, 20224 min read
Baby Emmett Salkil
Several years ago when my son first went into law, he practiced with Henry Ware in a firm they called Indian Country Lawyers, taking...
Rebecca Jim
May 15, 20224 min read
A Sense of Grace
It is a short walk, an historic walk across Harvard Square with the red brick dormitories saved for Freshmen which must each year ground...
Rebecca Jim
May 8, 20223 min read
Home Grown
We raise our own. Tar Creek has been part of Nick Shepherd's life since before he could legally drive a car. He competed in high school...
Rebecca Jim
May 8, 20223 min read
A Sense of Grace
It is a short walk, an historic walk across Harvard Square with the red brick dormitories saved for Freshmen which must each year ground...
Rebecca Jim
May 8, 20223 min read
Refugee
We have our own well known refugee and she is actually connected to two World Wars. The lead and zinc mined out just north of us we all...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 27, 20224 min read
Valued Home
I never been to Spain ... but I been to Oklahoma ~ Three Dog Night I have never been to Columbia either, so when the Tulsa Global...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 15, 20223 min read
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