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Stories of repair, and the work behind it.
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Latest · Reparative StrategyWhat Buddhism Can Teach AIThe traditions named the roots of harm long before we built machines that run on them. The root is the belief that we are separate, and the way out is the one they already mapped.September 2026 · 5 min readRepatriationThe Ivi Tupuna Come Home: Rapa Nui's Ancestors Return After 143 YearsIn 2026, after 143 years in a Sydney museum, the ancestral remains of seventeen Rapa Nui people began the journey back to their island. Their descendants never stopped asking.September 2026 · 4 min readReparationsEvanston Paid Reparations. In 2026, the Federal Government Sued to Stop It.Evanston, Illinois built the first city reparations program in the country and has paid more than $7 million for housing discrimination it once wrote into law. This year the Justice Department moved to end it. What happens next is the real test.September 2026 · 4 min read
The Return · Four times a year
A letter each season on what came home.
RematriationThe Altar They Tried to Trademark: Día de los Muertos and the OfrendaEvery fall, Mexican families build an altar to welcome the dead home for a night. In 2013 Disney tried to trademark the holiday's name. The people who keep the tradition had something to say about that.October 2026 · 4 min readRematriationCaoineadh: The Irish Cry the Church Tried to SilenceThe Irish once sang their grief aloud over the body, one woman keening a whole room's sorrow into a single voice. The Church spent centuries suppressing it. At the fall turn of the year, people are bringing it back.October 2026 · 4 min readRematriationThe Despacho and the Law That Tried to Erase ItIn the Andes, gratitude takes a physical form: a bundle given back to the earth in return for what she provides. Spain spent a century trying to stamp it out. This is a tradition I honor here, not one I will teach.October 2026 · 3 min readSovereigntyThe Beans That Outlasted the Theft of a River: Ramona Farms and O'odham Food SovereigntyThe Akimel O'odham fed the Arizona desert for centuries, until settlers took their river and starved them. This fall, a family farm on the Gila River is growing the same beans and corn again, and selling them to your kitchen.October 2026 · 4 min readSovereigntyInspired Natives, Not Native-Inspired: How Eighth Generation Took the Blanket BackFor a century, non-Native companies sold “Native-inspired” blankets and kept the money. Eighth Generation, owned by the Nooksack artist Louie Gong, flipped it. As the cold comes in, it is the difference between the real thing and the knockoff.October 2026 · 4 min readLand BackThe Klamath Runs Again: What Land Back Looks Like When It Actually WorksIn 2025 the Yurok Tribe got 47,000 acres of the Klamath back. A year after the dams came down, the salmon returned to spawn above them for the first time in a century. This is what repair looks like when you can stand beside it.September 2026 · 5 min readRematriationThe Rice They Were Brought Here to Grow: Rollen Chalmers and Carolina GoldCarolina Gold rice built the wealth of the Lowcountry on the stolen knowledge of enslaved West Africans, then nearly disappeared. This fall's harvest comes from a Black farmer growing it again, on his own terms.October 2026 · 4 min read
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