Chesie's Journal: Wondering Why
This week I received this inquiry: “There have been 5 officer involved shootings in Fremont County in the last 3 years. Wondering why RPM...
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Chesie Lee
- Sep 12
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Is Never Again Possible?
Three years after the killing of Andy Antelope by Riverton Police Officer James Donahue, the community still asks unanswered questions. A...
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Chesie Lee
- Sep 12
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: We Ask the Wrong Questions
Last Monday the Wyoming Legislature’s Select Committee on Tribal Relations met in Riverton. At these meetings is an opportunity for...
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Chesie Lee
- Aug 30
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: From the 1963 Dream to 2022 Reality
Today, August 28th, marks the 59th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream” speech . I was there; the second time to be...
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Chesie Lee
- Aug 24
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Can A Backdoor Approach Help?
Riverton Peace Mission board members met with the new Riverton City Administrator Kyle Butterfield, Mayor Richard Gard, and Councilman...
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Chesie Lee
- Aug 15
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Fines and Institutional Racism
Although I have fought racism for 60 years beginning when I was in high school from 1959-1963, I still struggle with grasping...
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Chesie Lee
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Courageous Voices: Anyone Listening?
At yesterday’s Open Mic at the Riverton Peace Rally, we heard several tribal members share their stories about the violence Native...
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Chesie Lee
- Aug 1
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: A Sunday in July 2015
On Sunday, July 17, 2015, I attended the Riverton United Methodist Church. My life was changed. It was a come to Jesus’ experience,...
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Chesie Lee
- Jul 25
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Free at Last!
Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela of “Free at last” echo as Anderson Antelope, Jr., was released yesterday from...
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Chesie Lee
- Jul 19
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Bordertown Blues
Protecting private property is more important than police accountability in Riverton, Wyoming... At the last Riverton City Council...
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Chesie Lee
- Mar 29, 2021
- 3 min
Knowledge - Four Parts
First, an opportunity for a book study discussion on Zoom is this Wednesday, March 31, 6 pm to 7 pm, on An Indigenous Peoples’ History of...
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Chesie Lee
- Mar 21, 2021
- 2 min
Decolonizing Ourselves
“Historically and to the present, we remain obsessed with solving the Indian problem, even as we deflect attention from the settler...
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Chesie Lee
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
Persistent Pursuit for Justice
One of the top ten songs from the 1960’s civil rights protest era that keeps playing in my head these days is, “Ain’t Gonna Be Nobody...
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Chesie Lee
- Dec 27, 2020
- 3 min
"Jesus and the Disinherited"- A Way Forward
My bookshelf had become in much disarray and so I have begun going through books to get rid of those that I no longer want to make room...
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