Spring 2025 It’s 1954, years into the Cold War when the demand for uranium erupts across the country. Twin brothers, Jim and John LeBret, are exploring their Spokane Reservation land when they make a rousing discovery: uranium–and a lot of it–in their homeland. Excitement bubbles through the community as signed …
Spring 2025 In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as a dominant nuclear power in the world. Eager to assert and refine its atomic capabilities to compete with other nations, the U.S. expanded its research on nuclear weapons. However, this ambition did an enormous amount of …
Spring 2025 What do you think of when you think of a wasteland? How would you treat land that has been deemed a wasteland? What if those living in said “wasteland” do not view these lands as such—in fact quite the opposite? And what can happen when these contrasting worldviews …
Fall 2021 This project uses poetry and primary source documents to tell the story of the Castle Bravo Nuclear Test in the Marshall Islands. Structured around excerpts from oral interviews, newspaper articles, press conferences, and congressional logs, I have created loose poems that weave together conflicting historical narratives. My goal …
Fall 2021 600 yards. 600 yards between tribal members and cancer, acute radiation sickness, skin burns, or cardiovascular disease and more, when an accident eventually occurs (National Cancer Institute 2011; Environmental Protection Agency n.d.). That’s all that sits between tribal homes in the Prairie Island Indian Community and the highly …
Fall 2021 The Fish Wars The Fish Wars were a series of protests by Indigenous tribes of western Washington during the 1960s and 70s. These protests concerned the lack of protection of their fishing rights and unfair treatment from non-Native fishers. The beginning of the Fish Wars reaches back to …
Fall 2020 The Marshall Islands, located in the northern Pacific Ocean, first became a primary target of Japanese and US occupation during World War II, when both sides sought an outpost west of Hawai’i but east of Asia. The US military eventually succeeded in driving out Japanese troops and taking …
Fall 2020 Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner is a writer and performer of Marshall Island ancestry. Kijiner was born in the Marshall Islands and was raised in Hawaii, and she currently lives in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands. Kijiner’s work specializes in storytelling, performance, and poetry. She has used her creative practice …
