Link Roundup

Usually, my posts have a theme, and I guess this one does too. The theme is "stuff that made me think."

Whenever I read something I think is particularly interesting, I copy the link to a file. Today seemed a good day to share them with you. Most--but not all--of them are about IEFA or Montana, past or present. Hopefully, there's something here that makes you think too.

"Montana's Grand Prairie Experiment," Montana Free Press, February 20, 2020.

Women. Then Selena Disappeared.’ New York Times, January 20, 2020. (Lesson plan includes links to articles.)

Coal plants are closing across the West. Here are the companies sticking with coal," Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2020

"A Student Found an Ancient Canadian Village That's 10,000 Years Older than the Pyramids," Archaeology World, August 16, 2019

"Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It," Smithsonian Magazine, November 2016

"The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere: How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana, became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain," The Verge, November 14, 2019

"Rich Treats: Stories of Food from Eastern Montana," an online exhibit from the Montana Historical Society

"Mexico mammoths: Human-built woolly mammoth traps found in Tultepec," BBC, November 7, 2019 (they are approximately 15,000 years old!)

"Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World)," Open Culture, April 25, 2019

"A once-powerful Montana mining town warily awaits final cleanup of its toxic past," Washington Post, February 9, 2020

"Hamilton researchers join coronavirus fight," Montana Standard, February 6, 2020. (Learn a little bit about the history of the Rocky Mountain Labs.)

"Bill aims to address Native American voter disenfranchisement," Durango Herald, February 11, 2020, and "‘What’s old is new again’: Advocates say tribal voting hurdles remain," February 12, 2020.