Bathsheba Demuth

RIVERS IN TIME, RIVERS IN WORDS - Freeflow Institute An experiential deep dive into the history + evolving narrative of the Yukon

In case you’re free in July and want to spend a week on the Yukon…

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'We’re in God’s hands now': A dispatch from Western Alaska Hundreds have left their homes. Many may never go back.

“We don’t know where we’re going, or where we’re going to live. Or if we’ll ever go back home,” Darrell John from Kipnuk, in a great piece in the Northern Journal on western Alaska’s typhoon aftermath—

www.northernjournal.com/were-in-gods...

Western Alaska Communities Unite to Establish Disaster Response Fund Following Recent Storms  - Alaska Community Foundation In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska’s western coast, local …

This links to orgs on the ground coordinating support:

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YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Mule Power Unpacking empires and diaspora in Mexico and the United States.

“what happens if we also reconnect with the mule? What can mules teach us about the black history of land and violence in the United States?”

A terrific piece of #envhist on mules, labor, and how “empire doesn’t always win” from @roguechieftan.bsky.social

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

I was just reading about this! Infuriating.

This year I wrote a book about how Columbus colonized the Caribbean in 1492 - not what is now the US mainland.

My book DARK LABORATORY celebrates Kalinago survivance and the African agrarian x aquatic traditions people like my ancestors, who were enslaved, brought to the region.

I love watching this roll out into the world!

Wonderful wonderful news!!!!!! Congratulations

This was such fun! Thank you for that invite.

I’m very lucky to work with Myles, and am so excited to hear him talk about his amazing new book in a few weeks!

Thank you Liesbeth! I hope you enjoy the book

Thank you Cathryn!!

Jeepers the bad just keeps compounding. This is awful

RE:PUBLIC INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM FOR PUBLIC LANDS.

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

Oh this is good!!!

@cetracey.bsky.social I’ve just read a few pages bit they sing

@lancerichardson.bsky.social I’m entranced!!

Book covers of Lance Richardson’s True Nature and Caroline Tracey’s Salt Lakes

Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.

Alaska Natives fight for right to fish salmon, manage Yukon River Before government intervention, Native stewardship maintained salmon stocks, providing physical and spiritual nourishment

“The Yukon River has a right to feed its own animals & its land.”

Alaska Natives are fighting for the right to manage the Yukon River & save the remaining salmon stocks for future generations, before their way of life dies off with the salmon, Alyssa Choiniere reports.

Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River | Alaska Beacon Alaska Native communities along the Yukon River are fighting for the right to manage the river and save the remaining salmon stocks for future generations, before their way of life dies off with the…

Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River, reports Alyssa Chioniere for @prismreports.org via @alaskabeacon.com

Truly. It’s not even popular in many parts of Alaska (going beyond the father pat opposition from “environmentalists and Alaska Natives” in this article). And it doesn’t mention that Ambler Metals is not exactly an Alaskan company— Canada is as usual with mining all over this.

Where the Dogs Run | Bathsheba Demuth The best days to work a salmon net are dry and bright. Bankside willows tilt from summer green to autumn gold. Light wind, no longer warm, riffles the

I guarantee that you're not going to do anything better today than to carefully read this essay on dogs, salmon, and mushing (which, like all good essays, is really an inquiry into existence) by @brdemuth.bsky.social in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Extraordinary. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Thank you Daegan— this means so much coming from you! An amazing note to see after a few weeks offline

And thanks for sharing this essay— I’m so glad it resonated with you

The only thing worse than writing is not? That’s all I’ve come up with!

Oh the joys of teaching together we’re all mine 💕💕

Ahhh I love this view Tania!!

Thank you Kim!

I was so overcome I went on a moose hunt about 100 miles from anywhere, especially the internet, the week mine came out. But yours is gorgeous!!!