<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-43db34c3-7fff-58ad-9eec-b9d5748a550f"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tribal Sovereignty & Land</span></i></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In recent weeks, we've focused on land theft and the ways it has been used as a violent tool of oppression by colonizers against Native peoples. Over the past two installments of the reading group, we learned about the Morrill Act and King Philip's War, which both involved violent dispossession and land theft from Indigenous communities. This week, we're focusing on tribal sovereignty and continuing to learn about the Native peoples whose land we are on in the area surrounding Yale-Myers Forest. In the coming weeks, we'll learn about legal mechanisms for land theft in the centuries after King Philip's War, situating them within the context of tribal sovereignty and self-determination.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 1: What is tribal sovereignty?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tribal sovereignty is a critical aspect of understanding the history and present of Indigenous peoples in North America. This week, we're highlighting several resources we've been learning from about this crucial topic. Put simply, tribal sovereignty is the inherent right of a tribal Nation to govern itself and to determine its own future. The United States operates with three types of sovereigns - federal, state, and tribal governments. In </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indian Country Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Shaawano Chad Uran points out that a power inherent in a sovereign nation is conducting relationships with other sovereign nations:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Tribes have sovereignty that is obviously older than the US Constitution. Tribes had their own form of government, and many had legal codes written into their own documents, their own stories, their own practices, and their own memories. Tribal sovereignty is derived from the people, the land, and their relationships; tribal sovereignty was not a gift from any external government."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Professor Breaks Down Sovereignty and Explains its Significance" by Shaawano Chad Uran, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indian Country Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, January 2014</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/professor-breaks-down-sovereignty-and-explains-its-significance-B8tl2DAAREa05ACzie58hw" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/professor-breaks-down-sovereignty-and-explains-its-significance-B8tl2DAAREa05ACzie58hw</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To further understand tribal sovereignty, we're listening to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui's "Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond" podcast. The two-part episodes we're highlighting today are a recording of a 2010 panel on tribal sovereignty held at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. In her introduction to the panel, Kauanui stresses that tribal sovereignty and governance are issues separate from civil rights, and cautions against conflating race and Indigeneity. Too often, she says, "the question of tribal sovereignty is misread through a twisted notion of racial equality that denies both colonialism and racial oppression and domination."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Let's start with Part I, in which panelists John Echohawk (co-founder and Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund) and J. Cedric Woods (Director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies at UMass Boston) offer legal and cultural context for understanding tribal sovereignty. Echohawk, who describes modeling the Native American Rights Fund after the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1970, further explains the distinction between civil rights and tribal sovereignty: "even though we got our start in the civil rights movement, we were not about equality, we were about treaty rights." Woods closes out the episode by discussing the particular challenges that eastern tribes face in defending and asserting their inherent sovereignty, given the region's long history of occupation. Although political and legal sovereignty are most talked about, he says, economic and cultural sovereignty are just as important. Culture is a process, not a set of actions, and cultural sovereignty can be seen in the ways that communities work to reclaim their native languages, take control of how their children are educated, and maintain connections to traditional lands, among other examples.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond" Podcast, hosted by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Episode 5, 2010: Tribal Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights, Part I: Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.indigenouspolitics.com/2010-2/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.indigenouspolitics.com/2010-2/</span></a></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 2: Tribal Sovereignty, Governance, & Land: the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To begin to understand tribal governance in the context of sovereignty, we'll start by listening to Part II of the "Indigenous Politics" podcast panel we began above. This episode features three panelists intimately involved in navigating issues of tribal sovereignty: Betsy Conway, then an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and subsequently its General Counsel; James T. Jackson, then Tribal Council Treasurer for the Mashantucket Pequot; and the late Jackson T. King, Jr., who was then the General Counsel for the Mashantucket Pequot. An overarching theme here is the lack of knowledge about tribal sovereignty on the part of state and federal judges, and other non-Native government officials.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To better understand the stories and information presented in the podcast, we're also reading through the website of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which is one of two federally recognized tribes in Connecticut. The Tribe gained recognition in 1983 as a result of a land claims case started in 1976, which sought to return land to the Tribe that had been illegally sold by the state of Connecticut in 1856. Federal and state recognition is an important topic that we'll focus on more in the coming weeks, but for now we encourage you to notice the inherent relationships between sovereignty and land. Outright land theft is one way for a colonial state to attack Indigenous sovereignty, but seemingly smaller actions also have large impacts. In the podcast, James T. Jackson describes the damage done when Mashantucket was assigned the same zip code as another jurisdiction (the town of Ledyard, CT) in 1963. It wasn't granted its own zip code until 2002, and the effects are still felt today -- a process that Jackson likens to recovering from identity theft. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond" Podcast, hosted by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. Episode 6, 2010: Tribal Sovereignty and Indigenous Rights, Part II: Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.indigenouspolitics.com/2010-2/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.indigenouspolitics.com/2010-2/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation website</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.mptn-nsn.gov/Default.aspx" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.mptn-nsn.gov/Default.aspx</span></a></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 3: Upholding and strengthening tribal sovereignty</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What role does land play in tribal sovereignty? How can remedying land theft uphold sovereignty? This summer, we saw examples of Native peoples in the United States asserting their sovereignty and pushing back against the settler state. In particular, there have been two major wins, which you might be familiar with, that can provide some context. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe were victorious in their lawsuit against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The court found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to ensure that there was an environmental impact review for the pipeline and therefore ordered the pipeline to be shut down and emptied. Read more about the long-time grassroots level fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline here: </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Celebrating a Win for the Sovereignty of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes" on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indigenous Environmental Network</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.ienearth.org/celebrating-a-win-for-the-sovereignty-of-the-standing-rock-and-cheyenne-river-sioux-tribes/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.ienearth.org/celebrating-a-win-for-the-sovereignty-of-the-standing-rock-and-cheyenne-river-sioux-tribes/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The second recent case is the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma is indeed reservation land, specifically that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation remained such even after Oklahoma became a state. This means that only tribal and federal courts have jurisdiction on this land in Oklahoma. As Justice Neil Gorsuch states in the majority opinion:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation for purposes of federal criminal law. Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The ruling is especially powerful because the Muscogee people were promised a reservation on the other end of the Trail of Tears. In fact, this ruling may also extend to all of what are known as the Five Tribes - the Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Nations - who were forcibly removed from their homelands in the U.S. South and walked the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Read more about this ruling here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Supreme Court ruling 'reaffirmed' sovereignty" by Kolby Kickingwoman for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Indian Country Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, July 9, 2020.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/supreme-court-ruling-reaffirmed-sovereignty-4KQXSMEtlUW4lpBGSw6pzA" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/supreme-court-ruling-reaffirmed-sovereignty-4KQXSMEtlUW4lpBGSw6pzA</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"How the Supreme Court upended a century of federal Indian law" by Graham Lee Brewer & Cary Aspinwall for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">High Country News</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, August 4, 2020.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-justice-how-the-supreme-court-upended-a-century-of-federal-indian-law" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-justice-how-the-supreme-court-upended-a-century-of-federal-indian-law</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These are just two critical moments that have been making news headlines. However, these moments are part of much greater Indigenous movements as tribes continue to call for honoring Indigenous sovereignty and for the return of their lands. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"Land Back" is a Native movement for upholding and strengthening sovereignty via the return of land to tribal nations. It calls for North American lands to be returned to Native peoples, who have lived on and stewarded the land since long before colonization, violent dispossession, and the formation of the settler state. To begin to understand what this process can look like, we've been learning from this informative lesson by Corinne Rice and Andrew Perera: </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Corinne Rice @misscorinne86 instagram posts: "Land Back: A Guide to Returning Stolen Land to Your Indigenous Community"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 1: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJgUcWl_Uu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJgUcWl_Uu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 2: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJgexIFhqy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJgexIFhqy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part 3: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJgnxalWm9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJgnxalWm9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-667380ca-7fff-bd28-8352-adba3ea3f57b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks so much for following along this week! Have thoughts, comments, or reflections you’d like to share? Are there resources you feel we should have included? We hope you’ll send an email our way: </span><a href="mailto:yale-forests-reading-group@mailman.yale.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">yale-forests-reading-group@mailman.yale.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or check us out on Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/yaleschoolforests/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.instagram.com/yaleschoolforests/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Let us know if you would like us to consider sharing your comment with the whole group! If you would be more comfortable sharing thoughts and feedback with us anonymously, please do so here: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/4tPajvuuB6vpC9mGA" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://forms.gle/4tPajvuuB6vpC9mGA</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Think a friend might enjoy subscribing? They can subscribe and learn more at our info page: </span><a href="https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-forests-reading-group" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-forests-reading-group</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. You can find past posts in our archives: </span><a href="https://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/yale-forests-reading-group/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail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