From 2013-2014, during the coldest winter of the past century, a coalition of tribal citizens, environmentalists and neighbors occupied treaty protected lands in the Penokee Hills of northern Wisconsin. Their act of civil disobedience successfully halted a multinational mineral corporation’s plan for mountaintop removal in the Lake Superior watershed. Vander Puy describes their story of … Continue reading Surviving the Windigo: How Vulnerability Strengthened Community Against All Odds