Chesie's Journal: Smallpox, Diabetes and Thanksgiving
I was asked what the Riverton Peace Mission is doing for Native American Heritage Month. My initial reaction was that for RPM, every...
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Chesie Lee
- Nov 14
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Native Americans Are Not Transients
Last week I wrote about how Indian Removal continues today in different forms. Today, I write about a Native American, age 52, being...
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Chesie Lee
- Nov 7
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Indian Removal Continues Today
I am in a book club studying The 1619 Project. This last week we read about The Indian Removal Act (signed into law by Andrew Jackson in...
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Chesie Lee
- Nov 4
- 2 min
Taking the Trouble to Vote
Last Friday I voted in Wyoming’s General Elections. I took advantage of the Early Voting opportunity, so that I can be available to give...
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Chesie Lee
- Oct 29
- 2 min
Week’s Highlights Give Me Hope
The Riverton Peace Mission was super engaged this past week. On Monday we met with Riverton city officials again challenging leaders to...
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Chesie Lee
- Oct 19
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: On Our Way to the Polls
Thursday evening, I was tired but pushed myself to attend a candidate forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters (LWV) at the library...
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Chesie Lee
- Oct 7
- 2 min
Three Books, Three Perspectives
I am asked, “What do Natives want?” A good question for white Americans as we struggle seeking to undue the harm caused by colonization....
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Chesie Lee
- Oct 7
- 2 min
Chesie's Journal: Standing Together
This past week was amazing, illustrating that by standing together we are stronger. Our standing together gives me hope for a community...
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Chesie Lee
- Sep 21
- 2 min
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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