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Spring 2019

Shaking hands with the past

Artist and Washington State University alumnus Nathan Orosco of Gresham, Oregon, says the process of making art is an art in itself. From sculpting clays to melting bronze, “you’re collaborating with raw materials," to speak of his social, political, and cultural “anxieties,” as he calls them. » More ...

Spring 2018

Living the fighting spirit

Hunting and rodeoing, playing football and singing in the school choir. For Charles Hudson ’84, growing up in the ’60s and ’70s on the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation in rural North Dakota also meant listening to stories from his Hidatsa mother and white rancher father. One of them was about a huge flood — and it wasn’t a myth.

Six years before Hudson was born, construction of the Garrison Dam submerged 550,000 acres of Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara (the Three Affiliated Tribes) land, resulting in Lake Sakakawea and forcing hundreds of families to flee, including Hudson’s. The tragedy only inspired his parents to triumph over it.

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