Alex-jon Earl

On October 6th, 2014, something monumental happened in Seattle--no, I’m not talking about the Seahawks win (though more on that in a moment), I’m...

So much of what we as urban Indians do is stymied by study and data. In the 19th Century it was the Indian Agents and...

An enduring myth of modern indigeneity is the notion that we are locked into our homelands, venturing out only once in a while to...

At 4:15pm on August 30, 2010, an officer responded to the life’s work of one Native man in the worst of all possible ways. Since...

  I’m not a religious man by any stretch of the imagination but I do think and I do see inspiration in words like those...

  Of all the recent regional policy discussions to fall behind the couch in urbanist circles perhaps the most important is on the topic of...

Portland’s newest car-free bridge will be named “Tilikum Crossing”, and it’s by no accident or quirky Portlandia-style convention. Prior to the settlement of the Pacific Northwest, before...