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Thirty Years Ago?
Thirty years ago. 2 Miami High School students accompanied me to Rhode Island to the National Service-Learning Conference. Students had been involved with Service-Learning since the day Nancy Scott with Cherokee Nation had brought the concept and funding for the work they would do a couple of years earlier.
For over ten years students were involved either directly with the Cherokee Volunteer Society (open to all) or in their classrooms applying what they were learning as the

Rebecca Jim
5 days ago3 min read


Advocacy Groups Host Free Screenings of Nuclear Waste Documentary ‘To Use a Mountain’ in Parsons and Kansas City
Community advocacy organizations in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are teaming up to host free public screenings of the award-winning documentary, “To Use a Mountain,” in order to highlight the growing push for nuclear energy throughout the Tri-State region.
The documentary will be screened at 7:30pm on Saturday, July 11 at the Municipal Theater, 112 S. 17th St. in Parsons, Kan. and at 7pm on Sunday, July 12 at the Stray Cat Film Center, 1662 Broadway Blvd. in Kansas City,

Kim Barker
Jul 74 min read


Made the List
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
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Thirty Years Ago?
Thirty years ago. 2 Miami High School students accompanied me to Rhode Island to the National Service-Learning Conference. Students had been involved with Service-Learning since the day Nancy Scott with Cherokee Nation had brought the concept and funding for the work they would do a couple of years earlier.
For over ten years students were involved either directly with the Cherokee Volunteer Society (open to all) or in their classrooms applying what they were learning as the

Rebecca Jim
5 days ago3 min read


Live painting, open mic night and artist reception slated Tuesday during Tar Creek Conference
A live-painting session with Oklahoma painters, as well as an open mic night and artist reception featuring works from poets, musicians, artists and photographers, will be available to the public on Tuesday, October 8, during the 27th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference.
A live-painting session with artists Ashley Jayne and Chris Mantle will take place during the day on Tuesday. The dynamic duo painted a colorful bison during last year’s conference, and their work

Kim Barker
Oct 4, 20253 min read


We Start as Water
No other words would have been appropriate for starting the 25th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference. The words begin the poem by...

Rebecca Jim
Oct 18, 20233 min read


Be There for Tar Creek
For over 25 years children have been creating Tar Creek Fish. What? Yes, on one side was a wounded, perhaps sick or deformed, oddly...

Rebecca Jim
Sep 27, 20233 min read


Wednesday Morning
Together we have thought and pondered. We have tuned up our voices. And practiced believing our lives matter. There have been alignments...

Rebecca Jim
Oct 16, 20224 min read


Every Seat Was Filled
Hope and Restoration resounded in Richard Zane Smith's words: "Draw our minds together as one so we can work together and give thanks to...

Rebecca Jim
Oct 16, 20223 min read
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