A Postmortem Portrait

May 21

Hey Nature Nerds! This week Megan talks about some proposed new menstruation legislation in Spain and Jen tells us the story of Olive Oatman! Thanks to listener Tracy Simpson from Minnesota for this story recommendation!

Organization to Support: www.honorspiritmountain.org

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The proposed Avi Kwa Ame (Ah-VEE kwa-meh) National Monument spans nearly 450,000 acres of public land in Southern Nevada contains some of the most visually stunning, biologically diverse, and culturally significant lands in the entire Mojave Desert.

The entire area is considered sacred by ten Yuman speaking tribes as well as the Hopi and Chemehuevi Paiute. Energy developers recently tried to build a large, 30,000-acre wind farm in the heart of this dramatic landscape and newly proposed project has heightened efforts to protect the region. Such development would forever scar these valuable lands and degrade their world-class habitat and nationally recognized cultural resources.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oatman

https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/olive-oatman

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/indian-captives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lehmann

https://www.paperdue.com/essay/mohave-vs-western-society-gender-norms-189918

https://www.nps.gov/moja/learn/historyculture/mojave-tribe.htm

https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/abduction-olive-oatman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohave_people

http://mojavedesert.net/mojave-indians/us-02.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90167904/lorenzo-dow-oatman

https://whatinsider.com/olive-oatman-biography-abduction-daughter-death/