Here's the deal, people: crows are amazing. I could write a long review here, spewing my love for them, despite their loud caws outside my window at six-thirty on a Saturday morning. I could tell you all about their complex family and group dynamics, how they mate for life (even though the female...
All the other accolades that, over the years, we have claimed for our own species have eventually had to be shared, first with the higher primates and now with the “feathered apes” of the genus Corvus. Not only has Man the Toolmaker been forced to make room on his pedestal for orangutans and chim...
LAKOTA ELDER BLACK ELK, Black Elk Speaks, 1932 By the time I’d settled my score with Wolf Willow, a couple of years had passed, and life and work had been moving along, ordered and full of purpose. Then, as another winter closed down around us and just as I was preparing to write the last chapter...