This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasn’t come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.| Hard Crackers
18th November 2021 | During the last five years, we have seen major social and political upheavals across the United States and Canada. Yet beneath the surface of tumultuous| Minim