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The mysterious affair of the disappearing aitch

America is a wonderful land. When I first landed on these shores, what struck me most was the purity of the colors everywhere. After the well worn, used up looks of the many Indian cities I'd lived in and traveled through, the shining aseptic primary...

Community mapping: to make your own neighbourhood

A few days ago at the University of California, Berkeley, I attended a small meeting of people from different disciplines discussing an initiative that helps indigenous American tribes ( or American Indians) map their own lands and landscapes. Much that...

I buy, therefore I am

When a few crazed and desperate men flew deadly airplanes into the towering skyscrapers all those years ago, it was like they'd delivered a bare-knuckled punch to America's solar plexus. For days, it seemed as if the entire country could hardly...