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14 COVER STORY DAWN AFTER THE STORM When visitors and transplants feel more at home than natives of the land.

Cover photo by Ellie Manny

6 DEMOCRACY

IN CRISIS

18 FREE SPEECH

8 THE NEW WEST

22 CINEMA

10 THE BUZZ

30 SATIRE

20 MUSIC BOX

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By Meteorologist Jim Woodmencey This week officially begins what used to be called the “off-season” in Jackson Hole.

Seems as if the “off” part has been shrinking the last several years. Mid-April is also fondly referred to as the start of the “mid season”, which can run all the way through mid-May. Since most of the snow in the valley has already vanished, perhaps we will enjoy a shorter season of mud. And, if we are lucky, we will all get a little more time off, and the town to ourselves this spring.

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April started out relatively cool, with overnight lows at or below the freezing mark the first 11 days. Average low temperatures this week are creeping up into the mid20’s. Average overnight low temps don’t get into the above freezing category for another month in town. Let’s just hope we don’t experience any record lows this week, which dipped down to 4-degrees below zero on April 13th, 1933.

Average high temperatures this week are in the mid-50’s, which sound pretty good after a high temperature of only 35-degrees in Jackson this past Sunday. We should easily reach our average highs this week, before we flop back to a little cooler temps for this weekend and early next week. Record high temperatures this week look untouchable, it made it up to 75-degrees in town back on April 12th, 1934. That record was tied again sixty years later on April 18th, 1994.

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THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.14 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 2.7 inches (1963) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 4 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 24 inches (1967)

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FROM OUR READERS Don’t Tear Us Apart Family. I’m sure that when I say that word everybody can agree that family comes first before anything.

So why is your family more important than mine? My family is more than half illegal immigrants. Illegal in this country, yes, but they deserve to be here just as much as any American citizen.

Waking up before the sun and preparing themselves to work in it all day long. For me, personally, with everything that’s been going on with immigration raids, I’m terrified for my mom and my brother. Terrified that one of these days I’m gonna wake up and my mom and my brother won’t be there.

My mom is my family’s rock. If we need anything she will get it or find a way. She is someone who we all need.

Her big beautiful heart opens its love to everyone. She has always been someone who helps people in need. Why would they want to send someone back like that?

My brother is the oldest of the three and without him my life wouldn’t be the way it is. He has never ever lost faith in me or my little brother, always striving for us to do better, finding ways to make it better for us. He is the smartest person I know. He has worked so hard to do the things he’s done. He’s had to work twice as hard as anyone just because he wasn’t from this country.

In reality, though, they made this their country, they are your neighbors, friends, co-workers, they are part of this community and my family. I will do whatever it takes to protect them. I have to try, we have to try. They deserve it. My family deserves to be kept together just as much as anyone else’s.

– The daughter and sister of “illegal” immigrants

Cue the Camping Conundrum Dear elected officials and town manager, My April letter is becoming a ritual in which I admonish you for refusing to take action on the worker camping problem, which predictably commences each June and persists throughout the summer.

Indeed, spring is here, bears and wildlife are out, grass is growing and trees are budding. And so, the annual mutterings and musings among you have begun anew about the problem of workforce camping that you face every year.

Historically these mutterings will continue until June when, like clockwork, Stanford or McLaurin, or some others, will officially throw their hands up

protesting, “Oh, darn! It’s too late to do anything!” and then you will all go back into hibernation for 10 months doing nothing whatsoever during that time.

And so here we are again. You’ve all perfected sad looks of consternation and heartfelt words of hope, but nothing happens. Seriously, this is getting stupid.

We can agree on a few things: letting this problem persist is unsafe for the campers, it is outside law enforcement range, it is unsanitary to a disgusting extent, it’s bad for wildlife and the environment and it pushes out recreational campers. Not to mention it is just plain wrong to do nothing about it.

Wrong politically. Wrong ethically. And wrong practically.

Also we can agree that the town and county are jointly a $100 million-dollara-year organization that has over 500 employees, with over 50 departments and literally dozens of boards and commissions. You can get bike bridges over rivers, you can hire “eclipse organizers,” you have “retreats,” you can overspend on countless projects.

But you seem unable to do a single thing about this nor will you even try. You have never committed a single resource or dollar to this annual issue.

Yet, extraordinarily, the taxpayers have their tax dollars go to promoting tourism, which creates jobs, which exacerbates the issue.

So let’s agree it’s not for lack of ability or resources that you do not even try. I am curious as to what about this issue escapes you.

Last year the mayor lost her seat in what can only be termed a stunning defeat.

There are many reasons, but the inability to focus simultaneously on shortterm and long-term solutions was one reason. Another reason was wind-direction verification obsession and lack of firm convictions. I implore you to not make the same mistakes, but instead, do something concrete about this. And no, folks, car camping isn’t the answer. Show at least a modicum of humanity.

And please find a solution with alacrity. The community depends on you—it’s why they elected you.

It’s time for Jackson to be the community we fancy we are. As the saying goes: lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.

– Tim Rieser

We will let private speculators construct buildings with sizeable number of units and we are not going to hamper them by putting any deed restrictions.

We believe that developers are an integral part of the solution.

We retain no control over the rentals charges or do we want to have. We will not enquire with bankers if deed restrictions affect loans as the investors proclaim.

We say we care about the working people but our actions demonstrate the opposite. We throw the towel Following the above we can ask ourselves: If the council will show this amount of leniency towards any true affordable projects, if giving up on any type of funding without exploring fully federal, state and bond issuances is recognizing how powerless the council is, then the housing crisis has no end in sight.

– Yves Desgouttes

On the PJH article “Free Speech: Living the Dream vs. Reality”

Great article! I too have felt a dark and light side to living here...I think my second time (after being away for three years and grad school) has been better because I have opened my heart beyond outdoor sports to seek a bigger experience. Many curious and wonderful characters are here and they are not all racing up Glory! I have mad respect for someone who shows up for Black Lives Matter on our Town Square and speaks truth and passion.

– Matt Stech

I have struggled with my relationship to this place since moving here 26 years ago because I fell in love, not with Jackson but my husband. At first I leapt into all the outdoors sports but realized with time that was not my true persona. I have found a balance and a more artistic community but it has taken time and a commitment to being honest to who I am—a girl who would much rather wear a dress, read a book and amble in the woods then down hill ski.

– Shannon Troxler Thal

What Can We Afford?

Here is the town council’s reasoning: We don’t have any funds to sponsor affordable housing. We know that to resolve the housing problem we would need over one billion dollars, a goal, too big to contemplate.

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Theater of War Propaganda, contemporary art, and our reality show president.

BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

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ot far from the White House, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in D.C., Yayoi Kusama’s blockbuster retrospective show “Infinity Mirrors” has been attracting insane crowds that stand in line, eager for the 20-second stretches of disorientation inside Kusama’s infinity rooms.

The rooms use facing mirrors, hanging lights and polka dots to create vistas of infinite regress. As art, it is perhaps underwhelming—an empty spectacle with no real depth, offering upon long inspection nothing unseen in a glance.

But as I stood in “The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,” I snapped a picture and realized it was far more compelling on my screen than in life, the perfect art for the age of the selfie.

On my phone, I saw myself in a Blade Runner-like world of “attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion” as the lights created towering psychedelic spires surrounded by replicates of myself. It was impossible to tell which one was real, because none of them were. They were all reflections on the screen.

I felt the same sense of vertigo a few days earlier at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing into Russian active measures—or propaganda—intended to use the refracting mirrors of the internet to disrupt our election.

“What’s hard to distinguish sometimes is did the Russians put it out first, or did Trump say it and the Russians amplify it,” Clint Watts told reporters after his testimony on Trump’s embrace of propaganda conspiracies. Watts is of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. “He actually repeats propaganda put out by

RT or Russian sources and, vice versa, they parrot him.”

Reflections reflecting reflections again and again so that nothing is true.

This shouldn’t be surprising. Russia’s propaganda strategy was designed and perfected by Vladislav Surkov, who brought postmodern theory to the Kremlin, creating and managing Russian political reality like performance art. When he was sanctioned for his role in the invasion of eastern Ukraine, which he largely orchestrated, he said he didn’t mind. “The only things that interest me in the U.S. are Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. I don’t need a visa to access their work. I lose nothing.”

In Peter Pomerantsev’s Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, he writes that “Surkov’s genius has been … to marry authoritarianism and modern art, to use the language of rights and representation to validate tyranny, to recut and paste democratic capitalism until it means the reverse of its original purpose.”

Pomerantsev says that Surkov turned Russian politics into a reality show.

Then, as if in a new kind of arms race, we elect a real reality show star as president.

Be wary of propaganda I wrote the above just before I heard that Trump bombed a Syrian airbase after pictures of gassed children in that country changed the president’s mind about intervention there. He explained the strike to the nation in a statement recorded at his country club.

Our country is making one of the most serious decisions possible, and yet, locked in our mirror rooms of constant conspiracy, we have no way to know what is actually happening. We don’t know whether Trump is trying to show that he is independent of the Kremlin or whether this is another one of Putin’s ploys as he manipulates Trump. Trump himself has told us not to trust the intelligence community, and no one has any reason to trust Trump.

In “Without Sky,” a pseudonymous short story generally attributed to Surkov and set after the “fifth world war,” he describes the “the first non-linear war,” a war “of all against all.”

“A few provinces would join one

side,” he writes. “A few others a different one. One town or generation or gender would join yet another. Then they could switch sides, sometimes mid-battle.

Their aims were quite different. Most understood the war to be part of a process. Not necessarily its most important part.”

This sounds precisely like the situation we are getting into—Assad, ISIS, Russia, American-backed rebels, Iran, and now Trump’s Tomahawks. All sides shifting. Whatever else the aims of this attack, the spectacle and confusion are good for Trump and Putin. And bad for the Syrian people who will continue to die. Those who escape will be denied entry into the U.S. as refugees.

“We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two U.S. Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean,” said NBC’s noted fabulist Brian Williams. “I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.’”

Surkov couldn’t have scripted it better. It is so disorienting, but it all feels somehow familiar.

I was 18 the night we launched into the Gulf War in 1991. Those missile launches were prompted in part by the PR firm Hill & Knowlton, which collaborated with one of the chairs of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus to present fabricated testimony to the caucus about atrocities committed by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait. But we were all mesmerized by the night-vision green missiles flying through doors in

an aesthetic later adopted by the Paris Hilton sex tape. In 2003, we went back to Iraq on the basis of another massive PR campaign.

Perhaps the best way now to know if something is propaganda is when they say it is not. Marco Rubio—who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, by the way—went on CNN to praise Trump and call the attack “an important decisive step ... not a message.”

But a step toward what? Do we want to take out Assad? At this moment, nobody knows. But people are lining up behind Trump. He will realize war, the ultimate image enhancer, is good for him.

“Trump became president of the United States [last night],” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said the next morning.

It’s like we’re all trapped in one of Kusama’s infinity rooms, waiting for the missile to burst through the door.

But we don’t know where the door is. We have lost all orientation. PJH

Baynard Woods is editor at large for Baltimore City Paper. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

He is the author of the book Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy, focusing on ethics and tyranny, and became a reporter in an attempt to live like Socrates.

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Gadget Break-Up Do we have the will to disconnect?

BY TODD WILKINSON @BigArtNature

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hose ingenious marvels of technology we carry in our hands—the deceivingly addictive screens of Huxleyan soma that literally, according to scientists, are rewiring our brains and altering the way we behave; the gadgets so many can’t live without or put down, that accompany us everywhere, in order to confirm we exist.

How are cellphones disrupting the outdoor experience and becoming a bane to those who wish to unplug? I offer today two seemingly disparate data points that invite reflection.

To begin, imagine this: You have reached a backcountry hideaway few others know about. You’ve pulled out the phone, posed for the requisite selfie and then posted it to Instagram along with a geotag.

For a place you once held dear as special and secret, the result of your action is you’ve just provided GPS coordinates—therefore the location, to all of your friends and, if they share your picture, all of their friends, too.

How many sanctuaries have been despoiled by loose lips or guide books? And how could this seemingly benign little feature of Instagram accelerate the loss of more?

Maybe you read the recent story at Outside magazine online? Christopher Solomon’s excellent piece begins: “The great outdoors is all over social media.

On Instagram, the hashtag #nature has been used more than 20 million times. Attach a geotag to your photo of last weekend’s campsite, and your followers can tramp to the exact same spot.”

Solomon interviewed Ben Lawhon, education director at the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, who said, “Most people do not wake up and say, ‘How can I harm the earth today?’ What it boils down to is a lack of awareness, a lack of knowledge.”

Hard to argue, but what’s the solution?

Should there be cellphone free wildlands? I’ve been doing some spring hiking in the Bridger Mountains near Bozeman, Montana, and each morning encountered the same group of mountain bikers with wireless ear buds, the sounds of muffled heavy metal so loud I could almost feel the guitar riffs as they passed.

When I offered salutations, one pointed to his helmet and waved his hand, indicating he couldn’t hear a word I was saying. (It could just as easily been trail

runners or equestrians because I’ve seen both with headphones.)

If one desires a workout accompanied by an artificial soundtrack, why does it have to happen in a wildland? What’s the point of cruising a national forest trail if you’re unaware of the singing meadowlarks or the perilous crashing sounds of a large mammal hidden in the brush only a few feet away?

Now, data point No. 2: The Masters Golf Tournament.

A few years back, the folks at Augusta National Golf Course, where The Masters is played, pre-emptively implemented a ban on cellphones, deeming them disrespectful nuisances and distractions.

Despite protests, the rules have remained firm: “Cellphones, beepers and other electronic devices are strictly prohibited on the grounds at all times. Cameras are strictly prohibited on Tournament days (Thursday through Sunday) but allowed on practice rounds days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday).

Anyone violating this policy will be subject to removal from the grounds and the permanent loss of credentials (tickets).”

Analogous to a poaching offense, some offenders have been permanently banned from ever being able to get tickets again.

“Is an experience in nature all about us, or does it involve giving oursleves over to a place on its elemental terms?”

Is drawing lines in the sand (trap) really such a bad thing? “I just don’t think [allowing cellphones] is appropriate,” said tournament chairman Billy Payne.

“The noise is an irritation to, not only the players, the dialing, the conversation, it’s a distraction. And that’s the way we have chosen to deal with it.”

Libertarians might argue that one person’s right to have their cellphone ring or take a selfie at a golf tournament, theater, church, or in the wilderness shouldn’t be abridged by those who find it offensive.

Is an experience in nature all about us, or does it involve giving ourselves over to a place on its elemental terms? If we don’t chronicle ourselves standing on the mountain, does it mean we weren’t there? If we we don’t mug for the viewfinder holding a fish in our hands and post it on Facebook, does it mean the trip to the river wasn’t “successful” or that our memory of the catch and, more importantly, quiet time on the water, wasn’t good enough?

Getting away from it all clearly doesn’t mean the same as it used to. PJH

Todd Wilkinson has been writing his award-winning New West column for nearly 30 years. It appears weekly in Planet Jackson Hole. He is author of the recent award-winning book, Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek, An Intimate Portrait of 399, the Most Famous Grizzly of Greater Yellowstone featuring 150 collectible photographs by Jackson Hole’s Thomas Mangelsen only available at mangelsen.com/grizzly.

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Sliding into the Future As temperatures rise, is the valley destined for more landslides?

BY SHANNON SOLLITT @ShannonSollitt

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he landslide that bulged and cracked Highway 191 at milepost 133.8 was nearly impossible to predict. But a likely prediction into the future is that the valley could be seeing more landslides as the Earth’s temperature continues to rise.

Water world An unusually high amount of precipitation and moisture in the ground caused the landslide. The snowpack this winter was 168 percent higher than normal, explained Stephanie Harsha, communications director for Wyoming Department of Transportation.

Climate experts are quick to observe that no one incident can be attributed to climate change, but they can look at patterns and deviations.

Jeff Lukas, a climate specialist at the University of Colorado, said that this year has indeed been unusually wet.

Compared to any other year in history with complete precipitation records, this year’s winter since the beginning of October has the highest precipitation on record.

What does that mean for landslides?

The simple answer is the more moisture on the ground, the less stable the slope.

More moisture begets more landslides.

Scientists cannot yet say definitively whether this year’s precipitation and subsequent landslide activity are directly caused by climate change.

But climate change and landslides are indeed closely related, and there is research to illustrate this.

“That climate changes affect the stability of natural and engineered slopes and have consequences on landslides is … undisputable,” reads a study by Stefano Luigi Gariano and Fausto Guzzett of the University of Perugia in Italy.

Their research explains how climate change directly impacts rates of precipitation, which in turn impacts slope

stability. “Direct climate impacts influence parameters that directly control landslide occurrence, like a change in rainfall regime,” the study reads.

High-altitude mountainous regions are even more susceptible to the shifting climate. Biologist Corinna Riginos from the Teton Research Institute says that the rapid snowmelt this spring is “consistent with a warming climate.”

Such hasty snowmelt and permafrost thawing in high elevations result in “a reduction in the shear strength of soil and rock masses … increasing the frequency of rock slope failures.”

Scientific jargon aside, the takeaway is this: climate change affects precipitation rates and moisture affects slope stability. If this winter is the new normal, it follows that each spring will see more landslides, and bigger landslides.

“This time of year is always busy,” said Mark Falk, chief geologist for Wyoming Department of Transportation. But he also admitted that there isn’t much WYDOT can do to anticipate such events, except monitor the slides they already know exist. “We just pretty much have to take things as they come … as far as new [landslides], we can’t predict that. We just have to react.”

Falk says that WYDOT has never seen slide activity in that area before.

His team can’t monitor slide activity until they know where to look.

The winter of our discontent Landslides are common natural phenomena in Wyoming. According to the Wyoming State Geological Survey, parts of Wyoming—Teton and Sublette Counties among them—have the highest landslide densities in the United States. A single incident, then, is neither surprising nor particularly concerning.

Three years ago almost to the day, the Budge Drive landslide devastated a Jackson home and a newly constructed Walgreens. The slide also blocked access to a neighborhood of around 60 people. Reparations are still underway—Walgreens just handed over its land and $1 million to the Town of Jackson to finish demolition and land stabilization.

The 191 slide, though comparatively benign, is one in a series of natural phenomena that made this winter particularly eventful. Recall: February’s “snowpocalypse” that downed power lines and closed all three of Jackson’s main arteries. That same storm, or series of storms, contributed to the snowpack

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that is now causing landslides in places they have never occurred before.

These destructive incidents are hard to predict on their own, Riginos said.

But, she noted, “there are some things that are easier to anticipate.” What is certain is that weather will be more variable, less predictable, and more extreme.

“We can predict with higher confidence that spring is happening earlier, warmer temps are happening earlier,” she said. So peak snowmelt will also happen earlier. While the exact outcomes of such weather are unpredictable, Riginos says that having “good infrastructure” and open communication are key to adapting to a shifting climate.

Mitigation and policy Harsha says that after this winter, crews were on high alert throughout the state. While they could not have seen this slide coming, she says she is not surprised. Landslide movement is often triggered by “saturated slope conditions,” Falk explained, which result from excessive moisture on the ground. This winter’s excessively high snowpack combined with spring’s early onset and rapid snowmelt created the perfect landslide cocktail.

“We got well above-average snowpack in that whole area,” Falk explained.

“Once it started to melt and the water had a chance to go into the ground, we ended up with saturated slope conditions. That’s how most landslides are triggered, this year was just kind of extreme given the snowpack.”

Damage from this particular slide is nothing too serious, Harsha said, but she is certain it won’t be the last one.

“Lots of snow means a lot of water …

Once the snow really starts to melt, we’re going to see even more of this.”

Gariano and Guzzett offer some general mitigation efforts and adaptation solutions in their report. They conclude that such effort must include a combination of “structural” or “hard” measures—physical barriers, walls, drainages, etc.—and “non-structural” measures, which include education and policy change.

WYDOT is quick to respond with structural measures, but non-structural measures are beyond its scope. Policy change happens slowly, and as Teton County Commissioner Mark Newcomb told PJH back in February, is tied up in resources the county simply doesn’t have.

WYDOT also acts alone in its mitigation efforts. The Wyoming Geological Survey monitors landslides across the state, but WYDOT is the first and often only agency to respond when slides affect travel, Falk said. “As a department, we’re trying to be vigilant, checking on every report of something new,” he said. Falk runs a department of 21 geologists monitoring and responding to activity across the state. “We’re prepared to do whatever we need to do.”

Highway 191 is still open—there are no landslide closures anywhere in the state right now, Falk said. For now, the area is patched and passable.

Geologists have installed a pipe in the ground to monitor activity, and haven’t noticed any new movement since last week, but will continue to monitor the area as they investigate possible mitigation. Falk and Harsha both hope for a milder, cooler spring ahead, but they are prepared for anything. PJH

THE BUZZ 2 Chronic Fears In order to manage the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, wildlife advocates say protect the wolves, stop feeding the elk.

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elsewhere in North America without artificial feeding. Science shows that it does not maintain healthy animals.”

The biggest impediment to “ending the feed ground paradigm,” Dorsey says, is humans. Hayden acknowledges the public fear that without supplemental food, elk will starve in the winter. But he says that in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem there is enough winter habitat to support up to 7,000 elk.

MacKay says Game and Fish is working hard to come up with more nuanced solutions to stopping the spread of the disease, like vaccines and increased monitoring. This is the first winter that Game and Fish hired additional technicians to study CWD in the Jackson and Pinedale areas. No one has come up with one idea that will “definitely work,” he said, but they’re going to keep trying. “We’re working hard to learn more,” he said. “We’re engaged more in looking at these solutions. It’s going to be a multi-state effort, ultimately.”

Should CWD reach Jackson, Dorsey says it’s hard to understate the impact it will have on the town’s tourist economy. “The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem stands to lose the very foundation of our economy, which is the abundant wildlife we have in this region that is world-renowned, that attracts millions of people every year.”

CWD is also ugly. A cousin of Mad Cow disease, it causes animals to literally waste away.

“Our regional economy is certainly based on wildlife and their habitat,” Dorsey said.

“It’s up to us to come together and help make these challenging decisions, because our future economy and our obligations to those who value wildlife in the future is at stake.” PJH

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The problem with supplemental feeding is that such large congregations of elk are breeding grounds for disease. Hayden compared it to flying on an airplane during flu season: “Those who didn’t have the flu, are probably gonna get it,” he said. “It’s the same idea.”

The disease spreads through nose-to-nose contact, and through infected soil and vegetation. Right now, Hayden said the prevalence rate of CWD in the Rocky Mountain herd is around 7 percent. That, he says, is manageable. “That herd is thriving,” he said. It is also wild.

Dorsey estimates that the state of Wyoming feeds more than 20,000 elk a year, and spends millions of dollars doing so. “No other state has to pay the artificial winter feeding like Wyoming does,” he said.

But feeding grounds also have their merits, noted Renny MacKay, Wyoming Game and Fish communications director. Without them, there would be a “huge amount of conflict—elk in people’s yards in Jackson, on ranches, there’s all sorts of conflict there.”

And co-mingling of elk and livestock is more than just inconvenient. It’s dangerous. Feeding grounds prevent the transmission of another disease, Brucellosis, which is dangerous to cattle and humans who consume dairy and meat There are 23 feed grounds in the state of Wyoming, the National Elk Refuge among them. Rather than eradicating winter feeding all at once, Dorsey and Hayden suggest phasing out supplemental food. The National Elk Refuge provides supplemental food for an average of 70 days a year, but is working towards a herd size of 5,000 to avoid overcrowding. Still, Dorsey says, the ultimate goal should be complete eradication. “Elk evolved for thousands of years without artificial feeding, and they exist in abundant populations

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hronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has not yet hit Jackson Hole, but it’s close.

“It’s inevitable that it will be found in deer and elk and possibly moose in the Jackson Hole area before long,” said Lloyd Dorsey, conservation director for Sierra Club’s Wyoming chapter.

The disease, which is incurable and 100 percent fatal to elk, deer and moose, was reported in a single mule deer in Sublette County in February. If it reaches Jackson Hole, it could spell disaster for local elk populations, and in turn the valley’s economy. Solutions for trying to keep it at bay, however, are tied up in politics. “[Wildlife] management in this state is driven by politics more than by science,” said Roger Hayden, executive director of Wyoming Wildlife Advocates. “I keep advocating for things that hardly ever happen.”

Hayden and Dorsey both agree that managing the spread of CWD requires two things: phasing out artificial feeding of elk herds, and a healthy predator population, specifically of wolves, to keep elk populations in check.

Wolves, Hayden said, can sense things invisible to humans—like disease. “[Wolves] have a knack for detecting disease and seeing it when humans can’t.

They’re one of the best tools in the toolbox to address CWD.” Dorsey added: “Predators are very important in order to have healthy prey populations, and healthy wildlife, and healthy ecosystems. Wherever there are abundant populations of deer and elk, those populations need to have predators in order to remain healthy.”

Of course, maintaining healthy wolf populations has long been a political battle in Wyoming. Just last month, a federal appeals court ruled to delist Wyoming’s gray wolves from protection under the federal Endangered Species Act, making it permissible for Wyomingites to shoot the animals on site.

But Dorsey says that people need not look far back to find success stories of healthy wolf populations.

Wyoming now houses 400 of the nation’s approximately 5,500 wolves. “We have shown in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that we’re capable of making some of those difficult choices, and begin to conserve populations of apex predators that have been wiped out across the continent in past generations,” he said.

Wolves are a threat to livestock, argue citizens who fought so hard to delist them. But so are elk, Hayden says. Much of the reason artificial feeding programs exist across the state is to keep elk populations from cozying up with livestock and eating their food.

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Recently, in Dubai (the largest city in the United Arab Emirates), Dubai Civil Defense started using water jetpacks that lift firefighters off the ground to hover in advantageous positions as they work the hoses.

Also, using jet skis, rescuers can avoid traffic altogether by using the city’s rivers to arrive at fires (and, if close enough to a waterway, can pump water without hydrants). Even more spectacularly, as early as this summer, Dubai will authorize already tested one-person, Jetsons-type drones for ordinary travel in the city. The Ehang 184 model flies about 30 minutes on an electrical charge, carrying up to 220 pounds at about 60 mph.

Latest Human Rights

Convicted murderer Philip Smith (a veteran criminal serving life for killing the father of a boy Smith had been sexually abusing) escaped from prison in New Zealand with the help of a disguise that included a toupee for his bald head—before being caught.

Prison officials confiscated the toupee, but Smith said a shiny head behind bars made him feel “belittled, degraded and humiliated” and sued for the right to keep the toupee. (In March, in a rare case in which a litigant succeeds as his own lawyer, Smith prevailed in Auckland’s High Court.)

attracted only to certain colors rather than the awesomeness of the towering flourish.

Spectacular Errors!

In March, jurors in Norfolk, Va., found Allen Cochran, 49, not guilty of attempted shoplifting, but he was nowhere to be seen when the verdict was announced. Apparently predicting doom (since he had also been charged with fleeing court during a previous case), he once again skipped out. The jury then re-retired to the jury room, found him guilty on the earlier count and sentenced him to the five-year maximum. (Because of time already served, he could have walked away legally if he hadn’t walked away illegally.) n In March, Ghanian soccer player Mohammed

Anas earned a “man of the match” award (after his two goals led the Free State Stars to a 2-2 draw), but botched the acceptance speech by thanking both his wife and his girlfriend. Reportedly, Anas “stumbled for a second” until he could correct himself. “I’m so sorry,” he attempted to clarify. “My wife! I love you so much from my heart.”

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de Souza signed a two-year contract to play for Brazil’s Boa Esporte club while he awaits the outcome of his appealed conviction for the 2010 murder of his girlfriend. (He had also fed her body to his dogs.) He had been sentenced to 22 years in prison, but was released by a judge after seven, based on the judge’s exasperation at the years-long delays in appeals in Brazil’s sluggish legal system.

It turns out that Layne Hardin’s sperm is worth only $1,900—and not the $870,000 a jury had awarded him after finding that former girlfriend Tobie Devall had, without Hardin’s permission, obtained a vial of it without authorization and inseminated herself to produce her son, now age 6. Initially Hardin tried to gain partial custody of the boy, but Devall continually rebuffed him, provoking the lawsuit (which also named the sperm bank Texas Andrology a defendant) and the challenge in Houston’s First Court of Appeal.

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n In March, star soccer goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes

The Cleveland (Ohio) Street Department still had not (at press time) identified the man, but somehow he, dressed as a road worker, had wandered stealthily along Franklin Boulevard during March and removed more than 20 standard “35 mph” speed limit signs— replacing all with official-looking “25 mph” signs that he presumably financed himself. Residents along those two miles of Franklin have long complained, but the city kept rejecting pleas for a lowered limit.

Mating Strategies

The Apenheul primate park in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, is engaged in a four-year experiment, offering female orangutans an iPad loaded with photos of male orangutans now housed at zoos around the world, with the females able to express interest or disinterest (similar to swiping right or left on the human dating app Tinder). Researchers admit results have been mixed, that some males have to be returned home, and once, a female handed the iPad with a potential suitor showing, merely crushed the tablet. (Apps are not quite to the point of offering animals the ability to digitally smell each other.) n Peacocks are “well known” (so they say) to flash

their erect, sometimes 6-foot-high rack of colorful tail feathers to attract mating opportunities.

However, as researchers in Texas recently found, the display might not be important. Body cameras placed on peahens at eye level—to learn how they check out strutting males—revealed that the females gazed mostly at the lowest level of feathers, as if

An astonished woman unnamed in news reports called police in Coleshill, England, in February to report that a car exactly like her silver Ford Kuga was parked at Melbicks garden center—with the very same license plate as hers. Police figured out that a silver Ford Kuga had been stolen nearby in 2016, and to disguise that it was stolen, the thief had looked for an identical, not-stolen Ford Kuga and then replicated its license plate, allowing the thief to drive the stolen car without suspicion.

Least Competent Criminals

Thieves once again attempted a fruitless smash-andgrab of an ATM at Mike and Reggie’s Beverages in Maple Heights, Ohio, in March—despite the owner’s having left the ATM’s door wide open with a sign reading “ATM emptied nightly.” Police are investigating. n Boca Raton, Fla., jeweler “Bobby” Yampolsky said

he was suspicious that the customer who asked to examine diamonds worth $6 million carried no tools of the examination trade. After the lady made several obvious attempts to distract Yampolsky, he ended the charade by locking her in his vault and calling the police, who arrested her after discovering she had a package of fake diamonds in her purse that she likely intended to switch.

Thanks this week to Jim Weber, Caroline Lawler, Bob Stewart, Chuck Hamilton and the News of the Weird Board of Editorial Advisors.

On May 2nd, 2017, there will be three locations open for voting from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Election Day. Please note: ONLY THE FOLLOWING THREE VOTE CENTERS WILL BE OPEN ON ELECTION DAY: TETON COUNTY LIBRARY 125 Virginian Ln, Jackson, WY, TETON COUNTY/ JACKSON RECREATION CENTER 155 E. Gill Ave., Jackson, WY, and the OLD WILSON SCHOOLHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER 5655 Main St., Wilson, WY. You may vote at any of these locations, regardless of where you live in Teton County.

If these locations are not convenient, you may vote at the absentee polling site in the County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow St., Jackson, Wyoming, or request that a ballot be sent to you. All absentee ballots must be received by 7:00 p.m. on May 2nd, 2017. The absentee polling site will not be open on Election Day for voting.

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r t e h t e st f A n o r w a When visitors and transplants feel more at home than natives of the land.

Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the flagship Indian boarding school in the U.S. from 1879 through 1918.

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isty Dawn grew up on the Wind River Indian Reservation (WRIR) in Crowheart, Wyoming.

On one side, her ancestors are healers, on the other, chiefs.

The reservation is the only in the country shared by two tribes, the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho. Misty is a member of the former. “I feel very proud and lucky because my people fought so hard to be here,” she said. “They took baths in the river in the middle of winter—I come from a very strong background.”

Misty moved from WRIR to Jackson Hole in summer 2016 with two friends from the reservation, both have since died. First, Jeffrey overdosed. Then, Misty said, “Lyle committed suicide from a broken heart.” She thinks about them all the time, and the life they wanted to build together.

Now Misty is trying to heal in Jackson. But she’s emerging from a pain not just her own—the wounds are personal and ancestral. Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between the two. Misty is always thinking about how to help those on the reservation, how to re-incorporate indigenous culture, tradition, and resilience into the places where they’ve been forgotten.

For her, “Wyoming is home, no matter where I go, no matter what I do.” Yet sometimes she’s treated like a stranger on the land that is in her blood. At a recent party in Jackson Hole, people went around the room saying where they were from. When Misty declared the valley her homeland someone scoffed and demanded to know where she was really from. “I’m from here,” she insisted. “My ancestors are from here … our people use to come [to this valley] every year.”

Knowing the narratives of Native people like Misty contain immeasurable value, particularly after Standing Rock and the NoDAPL movement stirred the American consciousness to this country’s ongoing

battle to strip away Native rights. That Misty is a native of Wyoming yet finds herself feeling like an outsider in places like Jackson Hole is an uncomfortable truth symptomatic of a larger American problem.

Being ‘too Indian-like’

When she describes her life, Misty is always telling two stories; her own, and that of her people. Every school she went to, every place she’s lived, exists in duality. Take, for example, Sherman Indian High School, the boarding school she attended in Riverside, California.

First, she tells its history: “It was established in 1902 to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream society, to teach them English, cut their hair. They took them away from their families and homelands at a young age. We got to go to the graveyard of the little kids who died of broken hearts. Their parents never got to see them again.”

Second, she describes her own experience: “I loved it. It’s different now. We go there to get away from the reservation.”

At Sherman Indian, she went to Disneyland, to live tapings of shows like Sister, Sister, and ran crosscountry so she could travel through California. “It got me out of the reservation,” she said, “and I got to see a lot of different things.”

In contrast, at her middle school in Pavillion, WY, she was one of four Native American students. “We got treated a little differently,” she said.

But at Sherman Indian, Misty found solidarity and pride. “We became a family. I got to see the cultures of many different tribes, to see their ceremonies and hear their language and songs. I think that’s what makes me a strong person, hearing the history of each tribe ... to hear their fight. Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, I went to school with people who were from these

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warriors. I’m from Sacajawea.”

After graduating, Misty attended Fort Lewis College, which was also once an Indian boarding school. Now, Native students receive free tuition.

Sherman Indian and Fort Lewis were two of about 100 Indian boarding schools that sprang up across the country starting in 1870. The goal of these boarding schools was to colonize from the inside and out, to hollow out the lives and land of those whose existence was a threat to white settlers’ vision for the land. They attempted to shame people into silence. The impact of that silencing continues today.

A 2008 NPR report describes how the schools stripped students of their heritage; their names were changed, their religious practices condemned, and they were forbidden from speaking their native languages.

In 1887, the annual report of the Indian Affairs Commission stated: “It is believed that teaching an Indian youth his own barbarous dialect is a positive detriment to him.” Students were often beaten, denied food, and forced into heavy labor, all in the name of “civilization.”

An Army officer, Richard Pratt, founded the first boarding school. “A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one,” he said. “In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

These attitudes lasted long into the 20th century.

Lucy Toledo, a Navajo tribe member, attended Misty’s high school, Sherman Indian, in 1950. She told NPR, “It wasn’t really about education.” She didn’t learn basic math or grammar. Instead, the curriculum focused on skills such as carpentry for the boys and housekeeping for the girls. The schools attempted to kill the Indian, but save the worker.

John Washakie, the great grandson of Chief

Washakie, the iconic Eastern Shoshone leader, is now a member of the Shoshone Business Council. In a 2014 interview with Wyoming Public Media he said that the attempts to degrade and shame Native cultural heritage had long lasting impacts. “For at least the first half of this century, Indian parents shied away from teaching their children any of our cultural traditions to protect them from abuse by their white teachers. The government-run reservation schools tended to punish anyone who was too ‘Indian-like.’”

Misty’s mother, Gloria St.Clair, also grew up on WRIR and knows the consequences of being “too Indian.” She is one of the few remaining people who still speak her native language. Only about 60 or 70 people speak it fluently, and the language is dying with them, Gloria said. “Because I was an orphan, I was raised by my grandparents, and they taught me to speak it.”

However, her school attempted to reverse what her grandparents had taught her. “When I went to school in first grade I got in trouble because I could only speak my native language. They made me feel bad. It made me feel like I was unworthy to the white man, like I wasn’t worthy of education, like I wasn’t going to get anywhere … I was always singled out, had to sit alone.”

Gloria’s voice breaks when she describes her first day of first grade: “My sister walked me in the school, she was holding my hand. And then my teacher took my hand.” The hand off symbolized a huge shift in her life, the day that she felt emotions she didn’t even have words for as a young child. “She made me feel ashamed of who I was. I didn’t even know that, I was just five years old. But it’s something I still carry. I don’t feel good enough. I feel good around my people, but not with people from the outside. I think that’s what a lot of Indians feel. Like I’m not supposed to be here, I’m not supposed to be Indian, wipe off the brown.”

Counteracting that feeling of shame takes resilience, Gloria said. “You have to be real strong— emotionally, physically, spiritually.” Even though everything she learned taught Gloria she should not be proud of who she is, it is her culture and traditions that helped her survive—traditions that live on despite mainstream rejection. “Our ceremonies, the sundance, the sweat, it makes us proud of who we are. These give us purpose and identity as a people.”

children disappeared and one man was killed. However, word spread that Indians had killed white settlers in Jackson Hole and papers as far as New York published the story. According to the Sublette County Journal, one sensational headline in a New York newspaper read: “All Residents of Jackson Hole, Wyoming Massacred.”

The story added to the demonization of Native Americans, and set the groundwork for a 1896 Supreme Court ruling that forbade Native Americans from hunting in the valley as well as Yellowstone National Park.

‘Prisoners in our own country’

Today Misty laments the evidence of Native Americans that has been wiped away from Jackson Hole. “Native Americans are missing from this town,” she said. “This was our ancestral land and now there’s nothing that shows that. People don’t know what Native Americans are or that we’re here. They don’t even know there’s a reservation in Wyoming. They don’t know there’s something missing.”

For her, this absence registers as pain. “A lot of things still hurt when I think about the past,” she said.

Indeed, pain weaves through Misty’s narrative, the pain of grappling with a home that is irrevocably hers, even as others refuse to acknowledge that belonging.

There are a lot of ways to understand Misty’s home. WRIR was formed as a result of decades of conflict, massacre, negotiation, and broken promises.

According to a 1992 article in National Wildlife, the creation of the Wind River Reservation was negotiated for years. Federal officials allowed the Eastern Shoshone to choose the land for the reservation as a “reward” for the aid that the tribe provided various white expeditions, including that of Lewis and Clark.

The Eastern Shoshone chose 44 million acres of land to

be its future home and the government guaranteed it would belong to the tribe. But just five years later, U.S. authorities seized the majority of the land, reducing the reservation to about 2.2 million acres.

Meanwhile, the Northern Arapaho had been placed on a 122,000-acre reservation spanning Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming. Officials told the tribes it would belong to them “as long as the grass should grow.” Seven years later, the promise was rescinded as white settlers moved west and demanded land.

The Northern Arapaho became nomads, frequently without food, often in conflict with white settlements.

As Gloria puts it, “They cheated us. When they signed those treaties, none of them spoke English.”

To understand the reservation, Misty also points to the Bear River and Sand Creek massacres, two violent events that pushed two tribes who still struggle to coexist onto the Wind River Indian Reservation. The Bear River massacre forced the Eastern Shoshone into Wyoming, and sped up the negotiation process for the reservation as it became evident to Native leaders that they desperately needed safe land to settle.

According to the Indian Country Media Network, the 1863 massacre resulted in the deaths of 450 Shoshone near present day Preston, Idaho.

The massacre stemmed from decades of conflict.

Northwestern Shoshone elder Mae Parry wrote that they “were starting to feel like prisoners in our own country. Many began to feel like trapped animals who would have to fight for their lives to the end.”

The day of the battle, Army Colonel Patrick Edward Conner descended with the intent of eliminating Shoshone from the area. As Parry noted: “It was their intention from the very beginning to kill every living person and destroy the Indian camp from the face of the earth.”

Bear River lives on in memory. Gloria has notes

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Much of the West rings with the absence of those who once lived, hunted, and tended its land. In Jackson Hole, Native culture is virtually invisible, save for shops filled with traditional jewelry and art. While boarding schools were founded to eradicate Native culture, white settlers in the Jackson Hole area were finding ways to push indigenous people from the land.

The valley served as seasonal camping, hunting, and sacred ceremonial grounds for the Shoshone, Crow, Blackfoot, Bannock, and Gros Ventre tribes for millennia. Over time these tribes were splintered, moving onto reservations across the Rocky Mountain West.

By 1868, the Eastern Shoshone had moved to the Wind River Reservation, but its treaty with the American government promised the tribe the right to hunt in the valley “so long as peace subsists.”

According to the Sublette County Journal, Native peoples’ survival depended on being able to hunt in Jackson. As Shoshone Indian agent Captain Ray wrote, “Ration for Indians on this reservation … is not sufficient to ward off pangs of hunger … they will resort to desperate measures before they go hungry.”

However, white settlers were not welcoming to Indian families that passed through, according to a WyoHistory article.

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taken by a survivor of the attack, a little boy at the time. The boy told his story, he said the river ran red with blood. Gloria summarized it: “His grandmother covered him and said keep your eyes closed no matter what happens. No matter what you hear. Act dead. No matter what. But you know, kids are curious. So he opened his eyes, and a soldier walked up and pointed a gun at his head. He closed his eyes right again, and then he heard the soldier walk away. That’s how he survived.”

The survivors of the massacre would move to the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho as well as the Wind River Reservation.

One year after the Bear River massacre, more than 600 men from the Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry attacked a village of about 1,000 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Sand Creek, Colorado, torturing and killing more than 100 people, mostly women and children.

In an interview with the Smithsonian, Colorado state historian William Convery said, “For many years, the story of Sand Creek was told as a triumph of civilization and a founding victory of Colorado.”

Today, it is being acknowledged as one of the worst atrocities ever committed against Native Americans.

There has been controversy in this reclamation.

Convery says some veterans and donors complained when an exhibit on Colorado History included Sand Creek. “They worried we’d portray the state and the military in a bad light,” he said.

In the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, there is a description of the days leading up to the battle.

Some white soldiers were reluctant to attack, but their commander, John M. Chivington, was outraged at their reticence, screaming, “Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians. ... Kill and scalp all, big and little.”

The massacre was one of many events that pushed the Northern Arapaho into northern Wyoming, where they eventually arrived at WRIR in 1878.

“They asked our chief if they could stay for one winter. They stayed forever,” Misty said. In 2016, there were about 11,000 Northern Arapaho and 5,000 Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

Endless cycles

Multiple layers of conflict continue to define the reservation, both between the two tribes and between the indigenous population and surrounding white areas. “The white people in the surrounding area, we don’t have a great relationship,” Misty said. “Some of them are intimidated by the reservation. They are scared to drive through it. They think someone is going to rob them or hurt them. But we are a very loving people.”

Gloria laments the isolation of the reservation, too.

“Non-Indians don’t learn about the reservation. They

say they’re scared. But they don’t have to be afraid— they can just come in here, be friends with us and learn about us, and be a community together.”

Although Gloria speaks to the desire to be respected and understood by non-Native people, in practice, it can be a challenge to bridge the gap.

As a non-Native person, Jeremy Pague has experienced some of the challenges that arise while advocating for Native issues. He is the director of The Coyotl Group, which provides opportunities for Native youth to connect with the land around them, whether through gardening their backyard or learning to ski. Solstice, for example, is a program the nonprofit designed to bring indigenous youth to Jackson for a week to learn to ski and snowboard. The program also includes conversations and activities around leadership, ceremony, and peacemaking. The group has worked with youth from the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Wind River reservations.

Some people on the reservations are justifiably reserved about working with people from the outside.

As Pague noted, “If you think about the history of Native Americans, they’ve been persecuted time and time again.” People come to the reservation with project ideas, and easily accessible grant money, but “there’s really no oversight, so people on the reservation are being asked to trust without really knowing who they are.”

In addition, outsiders may have access to more money than those from a reservation. Given the level of poverty many experience, this alone can lead to conflict. Pague acknowledges there is a history of non-Native people romanticizing Native culture.

“It’s attractive to learn Indian ways, to participate in ceremonies.” But, it is most important, and more difficult, for outsiders to know their place, and know how they can contribute most effectively.

For outsiders, understanding the problems on the reservation is an important exercise. Addiction and suicide plague Wind River. “We have kids as young as 17 dying of cirrhosis,” Misty said. “It’s really terrible.

It’s because there’s nothing to do there. It’s hard for someone to have the drive to get out, to have ambition.”

There are not many jobs, she says, and even if there are, many people don’t have transportation.

As Arapaho Councilman Crawford White explained in an interview with National Wildlife, “A lot of white people think that we just don’t want to work. What they don’t realize is that this is our homeland we inherited from our fathers and which we will pass on to our sons and daughters. The white man placed us here and told us to survive, change our traditional lives as hunters and become farmers. But then he took away much of our water, so white settlers could feed their crops. Now there are not enough jobs for everyone. So we are to give up our land and leave the reservation?

For people who have lived here all their lives, that is not

an easy thing to do.”

For many on WRIR, it is a struggle to meet basic needs. According to a 2016 Wyoming Public Media report, the median household income on the reservation is $16,000, well below the state average of $54,000. It is sometimes difficult to define what a “household” means, though. A recent Guardian article reported that the 11,000 members of the Northern Arapaho tribe on WRIR share just 230 homes. More than 55 percent of those tribal members are considered homeless.

This collective struggle has led to periods of intense pain. In 1985, for example, there was a dramatic increase in suicide primarily among young men. In just two months that year, there were nine deaths by suicide and 88 attempts. The reservation’s suicide rate was about 28 times the national average, according to a study by UC Denver. In attempting to understand the epidemic, elders in the reservation noted “high unemployment, negative attitudes toward American Indian people in surrounding non-Indian communities, and loss of attention to tribal ceremonies and traditions … as having contributed to feelings of hopelessness and helplessness within the community at large.”

Suicide on the reservation has dramatically decreased since then. However, it’s still twice the national average. Elk Sage is the coordinator of the Meth/Suicide Prevention Initiative for the Arapaho tribe. In a 2014 WyoFile article, she pointed to long embedded pain that demands attention. The traumas are multigenerational, Sage said, some coming from the repression of native culture and connectivity during the period of Indian boarding schools: “If we don’t acknowledge them and try to heal from them, they develop a life of themselves. … we have kids on the reservation who are angry and they don’t even know why they are angry.”

Gloria is now a case manager for Eastern Shoshone Recovery. She sees people dependent on alcohol because they’re seeking escape from daily life. Part of her job, she says, is to “bring our culture back to ourselves,” to use tradition as a way to heal. She’s heard it said that alcoholism might be the result of carrying all the trauma of generations. Her hope is that people can let go of that hurt: “Let it out and let it go. Tell the creator, I want this to go.”

‘Stuff like that doesn’t happen for Indian kids’

Hopelessness on the reservation is something Misty has witnessed, and that has become all the more evident now that she lives in Jackson Hole. She can’t help but notice the contrast between the opportunities afforded children in the valley and those on Wind River. “As a little kid growing up there, you don’t get out of the house. People are living in poverty, they just need something to look forward to or something to do.”

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Misty moved to Jackson with best friends, Jeffrey Day and Lyle Ute. Misty, and the men, a couple, had

give you shivers down your spine, goosebumps.”

Next year, Misty wants to bring tribal members from the Wind River Indian Reservation to perform.

In the future, Misty says she wants to help her people and to bring Native culture back to Jackson, to reclaim the land that was once sacred to them. She’s inspired by the Doug Coombs foundation, which brings kids from the reservation one day out of the year to ski.

“It should be more, though. One day is not enough.”

She sees many opportunities to build a relationship between the reservation and Jackson, to honor the long legacy of the Eastern Shoshone in this region. For example, she points to the J-1 visa program that brings people from all over the world to Jackson to work.

“There’s people on the reservation who need work.

They don’t have to go so far,” she said.

Misty feels she’s going through a transformation, and she wants the same for others. She continues to hold the memory of her friends close. “I’m up here doing great and they’re both gone,” she said. “I want to show that it is possible for our people to get out and have a chance to have a life.”

She says she finds strength in the resilience and culture of the Eastern Shoshone, despite all efforts to diminish their power and presence. “We have always had our culture and our ceremonies to get us through the struggles, to keep us strong.”

Misty’s mother agrees. When Gloria remembers her painful experience as a young student, she thinks of those who were sent to boarding schools, all those who suffered before her. “Our traditions were all we had through all the things that happened, the boarding school, genocide, buffalo being killed. But we’re still here. My ancestors lived through all of that so we could walk on this earth.” PJH

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Mountains as medicine

dreams for a new future. Their move ended in tragedy.

Though Misty had housing through her job, her friends stayed at the Good Samaritan Mission while they attempted to find a place to live. One night, they missed curfew and were kicked out. With nowhere else to go, they slept in Misty’s car. In the mornings, they slept in and were often late to pick up Misty for work.

“It just wasn’t working out,” Misty said. “I ended up taking them home against their will. I didn’t want to, but I needed things to work out in Jackson.”

Both men died shortly after she dropped them off on the reservation. First, Jeffrey: “He was walking to work and had a seizure from overdosing on pills. He fell in the river and drowned,” Misty said. Lyle, brokenhearted, committed suicide not long after Jeffrey’s death.

“Our goal was to get a place together, to make a life, but the housing situation is terrible. So we went home, and they both died.”

The land in Jackson feels like a tonic to her grief.

Most days, Misty wakes up early and takes the gondola to her job at Piste and Rendezvous restaurants at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. She watches the clouds cloak the lower mountain, the sun spread through the valley. “I’m healing myself. … going up there and seeing that every day, it’s magical at the top of the mountain.

I feel really bad about my friends. I’m starting to feel better finally … it’s beautiful and I feel like I’m living again.”

Although Jackson has been a place of healing for Misty, it’s not devoid of pain. She felt the familiar twinge when she watched a parade downtown. “They had fake Indians with fake leather doing fake war cries.

I felt bad … I want to have my people here, on their horses, in fully beaded regalia, like my dad, he has long hair. If you saw a fully dressed male in a parade it would

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Though there’s plenty of snow and mountains, people aren’t taught to ski. “When I go to the resort and people ask if I ski or snowboard and I say ‘no,’ they ask why I’m working here,” Misty said.

When people ask those questions, she wants to tell them that what they take for granted is incredibly difficult for others: “There isn’t opportunity. It takes longer for us to do the things we want,” she said. Misty, for example, has always wanted to be a musician.

“Everyone is born with a heat in them and mine is music … I always wanted to play the piano and guitar but it never happened growing up. That stuff doesn’t happen for Indian kids. I’m doing everything late. I do feel a little sad. I know I’m capable of a lot more.”

Before moving to Jackson, Misty was the executive secretary to the Eastern Shoshone Business Council where she says she practically helped run the tribe.

In 2009, members of the Eastern Shoshone, including Misty, traveled to Washington, D.C. to perform a traditional dance for former President Obama’s first inauguration. They were the only indigenous group to perform. Misty flew, but others drove across the country in a van full of eagle feathers for the performance, as the feathers are too sacred to fly on a plane. Misty also participated in negotiations regarding the oil and gas leases on the reservation, and met Senators John Barrasso and John McCain along with leaders from Wind River.

Still, even as an active participant on the reservation she didn’t see a future for herself there.

Leaving the reservation, she said, felt a little like saving her own life.

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Ms. Appropriate Grassroots campaign will subscribe Wyoming lawmakers to a feminist education.

BY MEG DALY @MegDaly1

A

fter attending the Women’s March in Washington D.C. in January, Pinedale artist Isabel Rucker was determined not to let her momentum wane.

A longtime community organizer, Rucker turned her sights from the national to the state level. “I’ve been looking at state level legislation and how we have the lowest number of women in any state legislature,” Rucker said. “I feel like our lawmakers are lacking knowledge about women’s issues.”

According to the nonprofit Wyoming Women Rise, women in Wyoming make up only 11 percent of state senators and state representatives combined, the lowest representation in the nation. The male dominated legislature is tone deaf to women’s issues, women’s advocates say. When Rucker contacted her two district representatives, both who happen to be men, to ask what they were doing for women in the state, they each answered: “I don’t know.”

“I was shocked,” Rucker said. “If I had asked what they planned to do for ranching or for energy, they would have had a laundry list response.”

So Rucker teamed up with other Wyoming women she met through the Women’s March and started a nonpartisan, grassroots campaign to better educate Wyoming lawmakers about women’s issues.

The campaign, “Ms. magazine for Wyoming,” will raise $3,000 to subscribe every member of the legislature to two years of Ms. magazine, the iconic feminist publication reporting exclusively on issues of importance to women.

The crowdfunding campaign is hosted on GoFundMe. com and accepts donations of any amount. As of press time, the campaign had raised $2,175. Rucker said that any additional money raised above the $3,000 goal would be reinvested in the campaign, or donated to another women’s organization.

In addition to donating, Wyoming residents are encouraged to sign a letter of intent that will be mailed to each Wyoming legislator explaining the subscription.

The letter begins: “We write as a group of Wyoming women interested in starting a conversation about equality in the state. To begin, we are sending you a two-year subscription to Ms. magazine.

The magazine will provide you with an important perspective on the issues faced by women in the nation and state today. We are concerned that Wyoming legislators have too often ignored women. We ask you to write and support better legislation to improve the lives of half our population, half of your constituents.”

One issue the campaign organizers want addressed is Wyoming’s pernicious wage gap, the worst in the nation.

Wyoming women make a mere $.64 to a man’s dollar, $.16 below the national average, which is still a full $.20 below what men earn. How will Wyoming make itself attractive to women workers if it doesn’t live up to its “Equality State” name, Rucker asked.

“The governor is asking for suggestions for a 20-year roadmap for Wyoming and there is a lot of concern for the state’s economy,” Rucker said. “Women can help our economy. Of the population entering the workforce nationwide, women are earning the most college degrees and adding high value to their communities.”

Rucker invited Wyoming Women Rise founder Samantha Case to be part of the Ms. for Wyoming campaign. Wyoming Women Rise is raising awareness about low female representation in public office in Wyoming and to train and encourage women to run for office. Case gladly offered her support based on the similarities she saw between her organization and the magazine campaign. “I hope the campaign will begin a more in-depth discussion on women’s issues in the state,” Case said.

In addition to Rucker and Case, the Ms. magazine for Wyoming campaign includes several more organizers from across the state. Co-organizer Rachel Martinez, a higher education advocate based in Cheyenne, said the campaign is about more than just sending out magazine subscriptions.

“This is the beginning of conscious conversations we will have with our elected officials,” she said.

Martinez wants lawmakers to listen to many sides of issues. “The actual voices and experiences of Wyoming residents are critical right now,” she said. “Let’s get women to the table when we are talking about reproductive rights, healthcare and education. We have to have a seat at the table to make a difference.”

Native rights advocate and Wind River Reservation resident Cherokee Brown joined the campaign in order to elevate the importance of women’s voices and perspectives.

“Women are a silent majority,” she said. “It’s time our voices were heard. We want better pay, better jobs, and better education. We want to be equal.”

Brown was born and raised on the Wind River Reservation.

She moved to Lawrence, Kansas, at the end of the 1990s, and returned in 2014. She said she was shocked to see how few advancements had been made for Native people compared to the relative parity she found in Lawrence. “When I came home it seemed the same as when I left. The healthcare, the education … we need more equality.”

Brown says lawmakers must understand Native issues as not separate from Wyoming issues. The same principle holds true when it comes to women’s issues, she says. “We need our lawmakers to help us. Our problems are their problems, because we all live together. Something that affects us is going to affect them.”

To learn more about the Ms. magazine for Wyoming campaign, check gofundme.com/msmagforwyo. PJH

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n Jackson Hole Community Band 2017 Rehearsals 7:00pm, Center for the Arts, $10.00, 307-200-9463 n The Met: Live in HD 7:00pm, The Center Theater, $12.00 - $20.00, 307-733-1128 n Salsa Night 9:00pm, The Rose, Free, 307733-1500

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8:00am, Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) 9:00am, CWC-Jackson, $1,995.00, 307-733-7425 n Portrait Drawing 9:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $10.00, 307733-6379 n Grant Writing Workshop 9:00am, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, $20.00, 307-739-1026 n Friday Tastings 4:00pm, The Liquor Store of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7334466 n FREE Friday Tasting at Jackson Whole Grocer 4:00pm, Jackson Whole Grocer & Cafe, Free, 307-733-0450 n Swagger 4:00pm, The Trap Bar & Grill, Free, 307-353-2300 n Pam Drews Phillips Plays Jazz 7:00pm, The Granary at Spring Creek Ranch, Free, 307-7338833 n Art Opening: The Settlers of Jackson by Ryan Stolp 7:00pm, Pink Garter Theatre, Free, 307-733-1500 n Free Public Stargazing 7:30pm, Center for the Arts, Free, 844-996-7827 n Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers 7:30pm, Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n The Laff Staff 8:00pm, The Black Box Theater, $10.00, 307-733-4900

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

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MAY 2, 2017

SPET ELECTION

VOTER REGISTRATION NOTICE

On Tuesday, April 18th, 2017 voter registration for the Special SPET Election will close. If you are not registered to vote by 5:00 pm April 18th, you may only register while voting at the absentee polling site, or on Election Day at any Vote Center. Additionally, no political party changes can be made after April 18th, unless you appear in person and vote by absentee or take an absentee ballot home. Political parties can be changed on Election Day at any Vote Center.

The absentee polling site is located in the basement of the Teton County Administration Building at 200 S. Willow Street, and will be open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, through May 1st, 2017.

Please contact the County Clerk’s office for Vote Center locations on Election Day, or for any information regarding the Special SPET Election.

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MUSIC BOX Final Hurrahs Lazy Eyes rocks Targhee for closing day, Gary Small & the Coyote Brothers migrate from Sheridan.

BY AARON DAVIS @ScreenDoorPorch

T

he best part about closing weekend shenanigans is that it happens twice—JHMR last weekend, and Grand Targhee this Sunday. The weekend at Targhee’s Trap Bar will feature Celtic Americana band Swagger on Friday, and an epic closing party with basement rock band Lazy Eyes on Sunday. The Teton Adaptive Fundraiser and race is on Saturday.

“We love Targhee and the onslaught of closing day costumes. The Trap is a great intimate setting with more of a village atmosphere,” said Lazy Eyes guitarist/vocalist Steve Whitney. “There’s seven of us and it’s about split between those of us that live in Teton Valley and Jackson, so we get that hometown feel on both sides.”

Lazy Eyes formed in 2008 with the informal notion to just get together and play music. The love of mountains and a bond over similar tastes in music became the foundation for the large ensemble, which earned silver for Best Cover Band in the 2017 Best of Jackson Hole readers’ poll. From classic rock to punk, hiphop, blues, and metal, the band has an “avalanche of sound” with an upbeat mentality.

“We really look for the high-energy songs with good vocals and catchy tempos,” Whitney said. “That’s what people gravitate towards. We learned a bunch of new stuff last fall and I feel like it’s evolving right now.

We all have other jobs and just do it for fun. It ebbs and flows with the seasons, playing less in the summer and more in the fall and winter. There’s no pressure

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to get gigs for money, and none of us live together or really hang out outside of the band, so it’s really fun to get together and catch up on a personal level and then connect through the music.” Lazy Eyes, 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 16 at The Trap Bar, Grand Targhee Resort, free. GrandTarghee.com.

Park City, Utah-based Swagger, named after a Flogging Molly album, has been touring the region for over a decade and has released three albums over the years—Trouble on the Green (2008), The Grave (2010), and America Land (2013). Led by Rick Butler (vocals, mandolin, guitar & octave mandolin) along with Dennis Harrington (fiddle, vocals), Manny Slack (bass), Mark Mottonen (drums and Celtic percussion), and Andrew Marshall (guitar, mandolin, octave

Mandolin, vocals), the band has made Targhee a regular late-season stop over the last several years.

Swagger, 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 14 in The Trap Bar at Grand Targhee Resort, free.

Sheridan Coyotes stampede into valley

Purveyors of Santana-esque boogie music spread across rock ‘n’ roll, blues and surf, Sheridan-based Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers will return to the Wort for a two-night run. Small is a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, whose reservation resides in remote Southeast Montana to the east of the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Small lived in Portland, Oregon, for years before returning to Wyoming to care for his father many years ago. While in Portland, he released

WEDNESDAY Vinyl Night (The Rose) FRIDAY Swagger (Trap Bar), Gary Small & the Coyote Brothers (Silver Dollar), Pam Drews Phillips Trio (The Granary), SATURDAY Gary Small & the Coyote Brothers (Silver Dollar) SUNDAY Lazy Eyes (Trap Bar), Stagecoach Band (Stagecoach Bar), Open Mic (Pinky G’s)

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one of his personal favorites, Wild Indians (2002).

“I’ve always wanted to get back into the Wild Indians format. It’s a very Bob Marley, Santana, and War kind of vibe, lots of musical parts going on,” Small told PowWows. “In 2010, we had a Wild Indians reunion concert and did a one time concert at the WYO Theater. I flew some of my main guys in from Portland to do it. I’m still getting compliments about that show. Since then I bought my own recording gear and we have a beautiful studio to record in, out in the country. It’s a great environment to make music, nothing elaborate, just standard recording tools. But now we have all the studio time in the world.”

Small has been nominated for and won a handful of Native American Music Awards (Nammy) over the

years, including Best World Music for his 2013 album Hostiles & Renegades, Songwriter of the Year, and Best Male Vocalist. The Coyote Brothers won the Wyoming International Blues Challenge in 2013 and 2014, traveling to Memphis to represent the state. Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers, 7:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15 at the Silver Dollar Bar, free.

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Aaron Davis is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, member of Screen Door Porch and Boondocks, audio engineer at Three Hearted Studio, founder/host of Songwriter’s Alley, and co-founder of The WYOmericana Caravan.

n Library Saturdays: Mini Music & Movement 10:15am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Intro to 3D Modeling 11:00am, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $140.00 $168.00, 307-733-6379 n Meet, Make & Elevate 11:30am, Elevated Grounds, Free, 804-380-6728 n 5th Annual Pond Skim 12:00pm, Grand Targhee Resort, $10.00, 800-TARGHEE n START Facility Tour - SPET Q&A 12:00pm, START Facility, Free

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SUNDAY, APRIL 16

n Winter Closing Day 9:00am, Grand Targhee Resort, 800-TARGHEE n Easter Brunch 10:00am, Branding Iron Grill, $26.00, 800-TARGHEE

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n Studio Sampler 3:45pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $264.00 $316.00, 307-733-6379 n Intermediate Stained Glass - Design With Light 5:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $230.00 $276.00, 307-733-6379 n Hootenanny 6:00pm, Dornan’s, Free, 307733-2415 n Community Presentation on Alcohol Disorders 6:00pm, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-3908

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Kid Stuff A child performance anchors the satisfying family drama of Gifted.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW @scottrenshaw

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f you’re going to make a movie with a cute kid, you’re going to make it easy for a lot of people to love your movie.

You’re also going to make it easy for a lot of people to hate it.

Film history is packed with precociously adorable children who made a splash with audiences, from Shirley Temple and Jackie Cooper to Drew Barrymore and Macaulay Culkin, and they’ve proven a reliable way to give viewers—as the kids say these days—all the feels. But the moppet-based movie is also fraught with peril. What if “cute” crosses the line into “irritating?” What if the story builds so much around the youngster that it’s hard to find anything for grown-ups? By making a young character preternaturally adult-like, are you avoiding the work of figuring out what a kid is really like?

Gifted, directed by Marc Webb from a script by Tom Flynn, manages to dodge most of the pitfalls, largely by finding the right kid for the job.

Mckenna Grace plays Mary Adler, a 7-year-old math prodigy raised by her uncle, Frank (Chris Evans), since Mary’s mother—herself a brilliant mathematician—committed suicide when Mary was an infant. Frank wants to find a way for Mary to be a normal kid, sending her to school for the first time in first grade, but Mary struggles to fit in with her chronological peers. And when Frank’s mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) appears, meeting her granddaughter for the first time and insisting that she get the advanced tutoring to nurture her gifts, it appears that Frank might have to fight even harder to keep her in that “normal” life.

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If there’s a major sticking point in Gifted, it’s in the character of Evelyn, and her role as the film’s primary antagonist. A haughty academia-trained Brit who disdains the life chosen by Frank—he repairs boat engines in South Florida—she feels like a daytime soap-opera version of the manipulative doyenne, with her acidic asides about Frank’s working-class living conditions.

There’s some potentially intriguing psychology tangled up in the character, whose own aspirations in scholarship were sidetracked by family life, which could have made for a great thorny dynamic between Frank and Evelyn.

Instead, Flynn’s script seems mostly interested in making a melodramatic villain whose awfulness is exaggerated even by the way she treats pets.

It’s fortunate, then, that Evans is around to provide a more earthbound balance in that relationship. The erstwhile Captain America deserves more credit for the soulfulness of his acting, and Gifted gives him opportunities to wrestle with Frank’s uncertainty over whether he can do right by Mary.

Frank’s relationship with Mary’s first grade teacher (Jenny Slate) may be of the purely functional variety, but there’s an easy chemistry between them that makes it more of a shame when Slate all but disappears from the film at around the half-way mark. Evans, however, continues to provide the steadying

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influence that keeps gifted feeling real, even as the narrative comes to focus on a courtroom custody battle with all of the accompanying “and isn’t it true!” moments.

The real star here, however, is Mckenna Grace, who does everything right with a role that’s not an easy sell.

Mary could come off as obnoxiously un-kid-like, particularly in the early scenes where she struggles to fit into her new classroom, and Webb does play a couple of these moments for broad punch lines. But Grace brings a radiant no-front-teeth smile to the performance, and sharp comedic timing. There’s just as much conviction in her giddy reaction to visiting a hospital maternity ward as there is in her wrenching despair at the prospect of being taken away from Frank.

Flynn’s script isn’t prepared to dig into the potential life consequences of being curried for “specialness,” and Webb’s use of jittery hand-held camerawork aims for a street-level grit that’s just not there in the material. As a family drama, however, Gifted delivers satisfying emotional payoff. PJH GIFTED BBB Chris Evans Mckenna Grace Lindsay Duncan Rated PG-13

(500) Days of Summer (2009) Joseph Gordon-Levitt Zoey Deschanel Rated PG-13

Snowpiercer (2013) Chris Evans Jamie Bell Rated R

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n Toddler Time 11:05am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-6379 n Bubble Play 11:30am, Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Photography Open Studio 12:30pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Free, 307-7336379 n Listen Local Live at Lotus Happy Hours 4:00pm, Lotus Organic Restaurant, Free, n REFIT® 5:15pm, First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Information Session for homeownership at the Grove with Habitat for Humanity 6:00pm, Hansen Hall at St. John’s Episcopal, Free, 307734-0828 ext 104 n Intermediate Throwing 6:00pm, Art Association of Jackson Hole, $154.00 $184.00, 307-733-6379

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BEER, WINE & SPIRITS

Cocktails & Mocktails Easter libations to make your bunny hop.

BY TED SCHEFFLER @Critic1

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n recent years Easter has become a popular brunch holiday. Given that Easter is also synonymous with spring, we should look towards lighter, fresh-tasting libations for the holiday. Here are some great cocktails and mocktails that are terrific for springtime sipping—at Easter or anytime.

The holiday often involves egg hunts and kids, so let’s not leave out those who are not yet of legal drinking age. To make a Blackberry Lemon Mocktail, begin by mashing 1/2 cup fresh blackberries with 1/4 cup sugar in a small sauce pan to break the berries down into small pieces. Add 1 cup water

and 1/2 cup lemonade (pre-made is fine) and bring to a simmer. Cook over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes.

Strain the liquid into a container and add the juice of 1 lemon. Refrigerate; once the fruit liquid has cooled, divide it into four glasses filled with ice cubes.

Top each glass with club soda or seltzer and mix. Garnish with lemon slices, mint leaves and whole blackberries.

I really like this simple—and almost healthy—Buzzed Bunny Easter Cocktail from a food and drink web site called Giggles, Gobbles & Gulps.

Into a cocktail shaker with ice, grate 1 small piece of fresh ginger root. Add 1 ounce sweetened pineapple juice, 3 ounces fresh carrot juice, the juice from 1/2 lemon, and 1 1/2 ounces gin (try Beehive Distilling Jack Rabbit Gin).

Shake vigorously and strain over ice into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a mint sprig and lemon slice.

Each bottle of St-Germain is individually numbered and reflects the year (or “vintage”) that the elderflower blossoms used to make it were picked in the French Alps. This gorgeous-tasting liqueur is one of my absolute favorites. A

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IMBIBE very simple but delicious drink for your Easter outing is the Left Bank Martini.

Into a cocktail shaker with ice, pour 1 1/2 shots gin, 1 shot St-Germain and 1 shot Sauvignon Blanc wine. Shake, strain into a chilled martini glass, garnish with a lime zest twist and make a toast to your good taste.

Another of my favorite springtime sippers comes courtesy of the folks at Tommy Bahama Rum. It’s called a Velvet Rosa, and it’s as tasty and gorgeous as it sounds. Pour the following into a cocktail shaker with ice: 2/3 Tommy Bahama White Sand Rum (or your favorite white rum), 1/3 peach schnapps and 1 part cranberry juice. Shake and strain into a chilled Champagne flute. Top off the drink with Champagne, Prosecco, Cava or other sparkling wine.

This Cucumber and Mint “Fauxjito” is a refreshing, non-alcoholic take on the

mojito. In a cocktail shaker, muddle together 6 thin slices of English cucumber with 6 large mint leaves. Once muddled, add 2 ounces fresh lime juice and 1/2 an ounce agave nectar; fill with ice and shake well. Strain into an icefilled Collins glass, add 4 ounces club soda, stir and garnish with a cucumber slice and sprig of mint.

Here is a very easy, pleasing Champagne Punch recipe that you could modify to suit your tastes. In a punch bowl, pour 1 bottle chilled sparkling wine like Champagne, Cava, Prosecco, etc. (or use fruit-flavored sparkling wine). Slowly (so it doesn’t fizz up too much) stir in 3 cups cold ginger ale and 2 tbsp orange liqueur (such as Triple Sec). Garnish with fresh basil leaves and a couple of handfuls of frozen cranberries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or a combination. Add some ice to the bowl and serve. PJH

Local is a modern American steakhouse and bar located on Jackson’s historic town square.

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Featuring dining destinations from buffets and rooms with a view to mom and pop joints, chic cuisine and some of our dining critic’s faves!

ASIAN & CHINESE TETON THAI

Serving the world’s most exciting cuisine.

Teton Thai offers a splendid array of flavors: sweet, hot, sour, salt and bitter. All balanced and blended perfectly, satisfying the most discriminating palate. Open daily. 7432 Granite Loop Road in Teton Village, (307) 733-0022 and in Driggs, (208) 787-8424, tetonthai.com.

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Breakfast 7:30am-10am. Coffee & pastry 10am-11:30am. Lunch 11:30am-3pm. Aprés 3pm-5:30pm. Dinner 6pm-9pm. For reservations at the Bistro or Alpenrose, call 307-733-3242.

THE BLUE LION

A Jackson Hole favorite for 38 years. Join us in the charming atmosphere of a historic home.

Ask a local about our rack of lamb. Serving fresh fish, elk, poultry, steaks, and vegetarian entrées. Live acoustic guitar music most nights. Closed for the off-season. Re-opening May 10th. Reservations recommended, walkins welcome. 160 N. Millward, (307) 733-3912, bluelionrestaurant.com

CAFE GENEVIEVE

Serving inspired home cooked classics in a historic log cabin. Enjoy brunch daily at 8 a.m., Dinner Tues-Sat 5 p.m. and Happy Hour TuesSat 3-5:30 p.m. featuring $5 glasses of wine, $5 specialty drinks, $3 bottled beer. 135 E. Broadway, (307) 732-1910, genevievejh.com.

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Enjoy all the perks of fine dining, minus the dress code at Eleanor’s, serving rich, saucy dishes in a warm and friendly setting. Its bar alone is an attraction, thanks to reasonably priced drinks and a loyal crowd. Come get a belly-full of our two-time gold medal wings.

Open at 11 a.m. daily. 832 W. Broadway, (307) 733-7901.

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Home of Melvin Brewing Co. Freshly remodeled offering modern Thai cuisine in a relaxed setting. New tap system with 20 craft beers. New $8 wine list and extensive bottled beer menu. Open daily for dinner at 5pm.

Downtown at 75 East Pearl Street. View our tap list at thaijh.com/brews. 307-733-0005.

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specialty cuts of locally-ranched meats and wild game alongside fresh seafood, shellfish, house-ground burgers, and seasonally-inspired food. We offer an extensive wine list and an abundance of locally-sourced products.

Offering a casual and vibrant bar atmosphere with 12 beers on tap as well as a relaxed dining room, Local is the perfect spot to grab a burger for lunch or to have drinks and dinner with friends. Lunch Mon-Sat 11:30am. Dinner Nightly 5:30pm. 55 North Cache, (307) 201-1717, localjh. com.

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MANGY MOOSE

Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally fresh food at reasonable prices, is a always a fun place to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel right at home and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit. Teton Village, (307) 733-4913, mangymoose.com.

MOE’S BBQ

Opened in Jackson Hole by Tom Fay and David Fogg, Moe’s Original Bar B Que features a Southern Soul Food Revival. Moe’s Original Bar B Que offers award-winning Alabama-style pulled pork, ribs, wings, turkey and chicken smoked over hardwood served with two unique sauces in addition to Catfish and a Shrimp MoeBoy sandwich. Additionally, a daily rotation of traditional Southern sides and tasty desserts are served fresh daily from recipes passed down for generations. With a kitchen that stays open late, the restaurant features a menu that fits any budget. While the setting is family-friendly, there is a full premium bar offering a lively bar scene complete with HDTVs for sports fans, music, shuffle board and other games upstairs. Large party takeout orders and full service catering with delivery for any size group for parties, business lunches, reunions, weddings and other special events is also be available.

MILLION DOLLAR COWBOY STEAKHOUSE

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965

LOCAL & DOMESTIC STEAKS SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK @ 5:30 TILL 10 JHCOWBOYSTEAKHOUSE.COM 307-733-4790

Serving organic, freshly-made world cuisine while catering to all eating styles. Endless organic and natural meat, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. Offering super smoothies, fresh extracted juices, espresso and tea. Full bar and house-infused botanical spirits. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner starting at 8am daily.

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Mangy Moose Restaurant, with locally sourced, seasonally FRESH FOOD at reasonable prices, is a always a FUN PLACE to go with family or friends for a unique dining experience. The personable staff will make you feel RIGHT AT HOME and the funky western decor will keep you entertained throughout your entire visit.

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Jackson’s first Speakeasy Steakhouse. The Million Dollar Cowboy Steakhouse is a hidden gem located below the world famous Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. Our menu offers guests the best in American steakhouse cuisine. Top quality chops and steaks sourced from local farms, imported Japanese Wagyu beef, and house-cured meats and sausages. Accentuated with a variety of thoughtful side dishes, innovative appetizers, creative vegetarian items, and decadent desserts, a meal at this landmark location is sure to be a memorable one. Reservations are highly recommended.

SNAKE RIVER BREWERY & RESTAURANT

America’s most award-winning microbrewery is serving lunch and dinner. Take in the atmosphere while enjoying wood-fired pizzas, pastas, burgers, sandwiches, soups, salads and

desserts. $9 lunch menu. Happy hour 4 to 6 p.m., including tasty hot wings. The freshest beer in the valley, right from the source! Free WiFi. Open 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. 265 S. Millward. (307) 739-2337, snakeriverbrewing. com.

TRIO

Owned and operated by Chefs with a passion for good food, Trio is located right off the Town square in downtown Jackson. Featuring a variety of cuisines in a relaxed atmosphere, Trio is famous for its wood-oven pizzas, specialty cocktails and waffle fries with bleu cheese fondue. Dinner nightly at 5:30 p.m. Reservations. (307) 734-8038 or bistrotrio.com.

ITALIAN CALICO

A Jackson Hole favorite since 1965, the Calico continues to be one of the most popular restaurants in the Valley. The Calico offers the right combination of really good food, (much of which is grown in our own gardens in the summer), friendly staff; a reasonably priced menu and a large selection of wine. Our bar scene is eclectic with a welcoming vibe. Open nightly at 5 p.m. 2560 Moose Wilson Rd., (307) 733-2460.

MEXICAN EL ABUELITO

Serving authentic Mexican cuisine and appetizers in a unique Mexican atmosphere. Home of the original Jumbo Margarita. Featuring a full bar with a large selection of authentic Mexican beers. Lunch served weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Nightly dinner specials. Open seven days, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. 385 W. Broadway, (307) 733-1207.

PIZZA DOMINO’S PIZZA

Hot and delicious delivered to your door. Handtossed, deep dish, crunchy thin, Brooklyn style and artisan pizzas; bread bowl pastas, and oven baked sandwiches; chicken wings, cheesy breads and desserts. Delivery. 520 S. Hwy. 89 in Kmart Plaza, (307) 733-0330.

PINKY G’S

The locals favorite! Voted Best Pizza in Jackson Hole 2012-2016. Seek out this hidden gem under the Pink Garter Theatre for NY pizza by the slice, salads, strombolis, calzones and many appetizers to choose from. Try the $7 ‘Triple S’ lunch special. Happy hours 10 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Sun.- Thu. Text PINK to 71441 for discounts.

Delivery and take-out. Open daily 11a.m. to 2 a.m. 50 W. Broadway, (307) 734-PINK.

PIZZERIA CALDERA

Jackson Hole’s only dedicated stone-hearth oven pizzeria, serving Napolitana-style pies

using the freshest ingredients in traditional and creative combinations. Five local micro-brews on tap, a great selection of red and white wines by the glass and bottle, and one of the best views of the Town Square from our upstairs deck. Daily lunch special includes slice, salad or soup, any two for $8. Happy hour: half off drinks by the glass from 4 - 6 daily. Dine in or carry out. Or order online at PizzeriaCaldera.com, or download our app for iOS or Android. Open from 11am - 9:30pm daily at 20 West Broadway.

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L.A.TIMES “ACTION FIGURES” By C.C. Burnikel

SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 2017

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Lara’s love Nicolas taking a swing?

Big 112-Down Painter of dancers Lacking variety Silkscreen aid Computer with a Magic Keyboard 88 Disc golf obstacle 89 Dürer, e.g.

91 They, in Cognac 92 One typing a’s and z’s 94 Used a bench, say 97 Certain triathlete 99 French sponge cake 102 Linguine sauce 104 Squalid 106 Singer Al making a strike?

109 Spanish pronoun 111 Provide a bank floor plan for, say 113 Eurasian border river 114 Alpha __ 115 Nathan at quarterback?

118 Inconsequential 119 Exiled Roman poet 120 Clashing with, with “of” 121 Sheds 122 Florist’s creation 123 State of disarray 124 “Spider-Man” actress 125 Shoelace protector

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Following remark?

Place for shady transactions Had Subway fare Physics Nobelist of 1938 Tango move London’s Virgin __ Records Turf disputes “Billions” network, briefly Muscle-bone connector “16 and Pregnant” spin-off King known for his wealth “Lord, is __?”: Matthew Big primate One of 18 on a disc golf course Like sundials __ nectar: sugar substitute Wrinkly fruits Major snag Broadway matchmaker Speed deterrent Sister brand of Nilla Wine list heading Bank deposit See 80-Across Scott Eastwood, to Clint “Today” alternative, for short

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1 Accomplishments 2 2002 skating gold medalist Hughes 3 Sally having fun?

4 Cuthbert of “24” 5 Editor Talese with her own Doubleday imprint 6 Stylish 7 Amen Corner golf course, familiarly 8 Benchmark: Abbr.

9 Pageant sparkler 10 Pooh’s mopey pal 11 “Silent Spring” subj.

12 Canines with corded coats 13 Flier 14 Con man’s expression 15 Spicy steamed Mexican food 16 “He Was Despised,” in Handel’s “Messiah” 17 Strip gas 18 Suss (out) 24 In one piece 30 Grassy expanse 31 Amtrak stop: Abbr.

33 “__ Schoolchildren”: Tracy Kidder book 35 Unreleased 38 Google Maps lines: Abbr.

40 Varnish component 42 Tofurky protein source 43 Newsman Koppel 44 Debacle 45 Engaged 47 Hexa- halved 49 Express sympathy (with) 50 Needing to be saved?

53 Ottawa-born songwriter Paul 55 “View of Toledo” painter 56 Yours, in Cognac 57 Romaine bit 59 Tonic ingredient 60 Layered lunches 62 Golf course rental 63 Soapbox user 65 Lucille on a trampoline?

66 Pass good in 28 countries 67 Tailgating fixtures 69 Degs. for writers 70 Something flashed by a catcher 72 The Eagles’ “__ Eyes” 75 Prayer supports

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Pond flower Navel type Selectively remove Butterlike topping Doris during a workout?

Maker of Regenerist skin care products 26 ’Vette roof option 27 Claims 28 Greenwich Village sch.

29 Director Oliver working on pizza dough?

32 Cymbals with a pedal 34 Tire for emergencies 36 Perfect Sleepers, e.g.

37 Yoga class greeting 39 Place for a bud?

41 Deepest, as feelings 44 Tiny bit 46 Many a pizza slice 48 Subj. for Janet Yellen 51 Diaper cream additive 52 Labor day deliveries 54 Quisling’s crime 57 1688 coffeehouse founder Edward better known in the insurance world 58 Cause of some lines 59 Comical Samantha busy stitching?

61 Look for 62 Masterful move 64 Ski resort sight 65 Avoid, as an issue 68 Some battered rings 70 Mumbai mister 71 Baker’s gluten-free choice 73 JFK : New York :: __ : Chicago 74 Singer Laine 76 Troubles

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Snow White and the Seven Chakras

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ave you ever thought about the deeper spiritual meaning in the fairy tales we enjoyed as kids and continue to share with our children and grandchildren? These enduring stories are not only fantasies where good prevails. They were intentionally encoded with esoteric teachings and symbols guiding our evolution to higher states of consciousness.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has always been one of my favorites. Here’s a look into some of this story’s metaphysical teachings.

The Wicked Queen: The danger of living from ego The Wicked Queen represents the ego driven aspect of our human psyche. When that aspect dominates us to an extreme, it demands to be the center of attention, needs to always be right, always the most, the best, the most powerful and the only one in power. This state of consciousness does not want to change, and blocks access to higher states of consciousness, happiness and evolution.

She (this part of us) will do anything—distort, deny, lie about, even kill the light of love, beauty and truth in anyone she encounters in order to preserve her complete dominance and run the show. We are warned that living exclusively from this self-absorbed part of the psyche can only lead to jealousy, insecurity, intolerance, anger, resentment, revenge, constant fear there’s someone better, and other expressions of power over others and discontent.

The Seven Dwarfs: Our seven chakras Ancient wisdom traditions give the number seven important spiritual significance. One of these sacred sevens refers to the seven chakras, first described as psychic centers of consciousness in the 8,000-year-old Upanishad texts of India.

The chakras are small, wheel shaped energy centers (dwarfs), which exist within a more refined subtle energy body that overlays our dense physical body. The chakras create an interface between our physical selves and the greater cosmos. Mastery of the first six chakras stimulates the 7th chakra, which correlates to the pineal gland, and results in a raising of consciousness and access to pure awareness.

The Seven Dwarfs/chakras are there to help Snow White evolve. They work all day in the mines underground

and out of sight, like the chakras, which are not visible to our physical sight. They are mining gems to bring to the surface. The gems are treasures within us when we align our chakras, connect to the wisdom in our souls, and to the intelligence of the greater cosmos.

Snow White: How to transcend ego Young Snow White represents the light of our true selves. She is loving, knows all life is sacred and intelligent, can communicate with the birds and the animals and vice versa. She is well on her way as a spiritual being having a fulfilling human experience. And she has a big dilemma. The Wicked Queen (the ego aspect of the human psyche) is after her to extinguish her light.

The girl finds shelter in nature, which has no ego, and with the seven dwarfs, who are eager to support her.

In that loving setting she can integrate her own seven chakras, learn to maintain her higher frequency and therefore transcend the battle with ego. Right when all of her chakras are aligned and she’s about to emerge into the world securely reconnected with her higher self, one last aspect of the dark queen knocks on Snow White’s door for a last temptation.

It’s the ego again, disguised as a poor old woman, with a final attempt to seduce Snow White. Failing to discern the ruse, she takes a bite of the apple poisoned with the lower frequencies of fear-based ego consciousness (we all can be seduced by the ego). She falls into a coma— a.k.a. forgets her true self—and is therefore unconscious spiritually.

Love reawakens Snow White to the pure light of her higher self. Her heart reignited, she can live her earthly life from the higher frequencies of her soul, where the negative energies can no longer influence her. We are advised that embodying the light is what also creates an internal state of bliss, the happily ever after, a state of being the ego can never attain.

For the general reader, there had to be a prince. The truth is no one needs anyone or anything external to become spiritually awake. The desire to be fully conscious, the willingness to clear any internal obstacles to love, and the choice to live through an open heart are all an inside job. We all benefit from support, and we are our own princes and princesses.

Follow this teaching The challenge for all of us, right now and once and for all, is to retire from the ego driven life. Embody the light, the higher intelligence, the wisdom and unconditional love in our hearts and souls and live it. The time is now.

PJH

Carol Mann is a longtime Jackson resident, radio personality, former Grand Targhee Resort owner, author, and clairvoyant. Got a Cosmic Question? Email carol@yourcosmiccafe.com

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West Bankers Want Equal Rights

BY CLYDE THORNHILL

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he recent success of a Day Without An Immigrant protest as well as the popularity of the Jackson Hole Women’s March has inspired other activists to take to the streets. Last week West Bankers for Equality marched in Teton Pines.

While the problems of immigrants, the handicapped and the disenfranchised dominate fake news cycles, the difficulties of the upper classes remain largely unreported. This is a reason West Bankers distrust the media. In Teton Pines marchers carrying Prada handbags paraded between Sudachi and Elevated Grounds. This reporter interviewed a marcher who had struggled to provide her family with the most basic of sanitation needs.

“The automatic toilet seat lifter broke in the master suite,” she said. “For three days my husband and I had to use the guest toilet. Thank goodness our children were back at college; if we had a house full of guests we would have had to lift the lid manually!

“Finally,” she continued, “after three days a plumber shows up as if he could care less that we were having an emergency! Then it takes four days to get a part in! All the while my husband and I had to use the guest toilet except when the nannie, cook, or maid are here to lift the toilet seat for us. It was a major crisis and nobody cared. Well, I am tired of being silent and walked all over!

It’s time for West Bankers to stand up and be counted!”

Architects, interior designers, highend furniture and accessory stores, and realtors marched shoulder to shoulder offering support to clients who they claim have often been the subject of discrimination.

One protester dressed in a Vineyard Vines salt water washed shirt claimed discrimination from the county planning department. “I bought a lot with the intent of building a charming ski chateau for the Christmas week we spend in Jackson every year. But I was told 17,000 square feet was too big for county regulations! How can a cottage be too big? It’s not like it’s just for me; my two children sometimes join us.

How can they be expected to stay in a house without their own wings with butler quarters and a theater room? It’s racist!”

Another marcher, dressed in a J. Press sweater, said the compressor on his wine cooler went out right after dinner. “Do you think I could get an electrician to fix it? No one showed up until the next day. Do these people know the meaning of calamity? I thought this was supposed to be the last of the Old West! Several bottles of 2008 Domaine Lef laive Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 1er Cru and 2007 Sassicaia suffered through the night at room temperature and uncontrolled humidity!”

One marcher was upset about her property. “When I brought my legacy property, I was told it was unparalleled, unique, exceptional, and one of a kind.

But in last week’s News&Guide I found ads for 20 unparalleled properties, 15 unique properties, 30 exceptional properties and 12 one of a kind properties. I want my money back!” PJH

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Before visiting Sicily for the first time, American poet Billy Collins learned to speak Italian. In his poem “By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa,” he describes how the new language is changing his perspective. If he were thinking in English, he might say that the gin he’s drinking while sitting alone in the evening light “has softened my mood.” But the newly Italianized part of his mind would prefer to say that the gin “has allowed my thoughts to traverse my brain with greater gentleness” and “has extended permission to my mind to feel a friendship with the vast sky.” Your assignment in the coming week, Aries, is to Italianize your view of the world. Infuse your thoughts with expansive lyricism and voluptuous relaxation. If you’re Italian, celebrate and amplify your Italianness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) It’s closing time. You have finished toiling in the shadow of an old sacred cow. You’ve climaxed your relationship with ill-fitting ideas that you borrowed from mediocre and inappropriate teachers once upon a time. And you can finally give up your quest for a supposed Holy Grail that never actually existed in the first place. It’s time to move on to the next chapter of your life story, Taurus!

You have been authorized to graduate from any influence, attachment and attraction that wouldn’t serve your greater good in the future. Does this mean you’ll soon be ready to embrace more freedom than you have in years?

I’m betting on it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The heaviest butterfly on the planet is the female Queen Victorian Birdwing. It tips the scales at two grams. The female Queen Alexandra Birdwing is the butterfly with the longest wingspan: over 12 inches. These two creatures remind me of you these days. Like them, you’re freakishly beautiful. You’re a marvelous and somewhat vertiginous spectacle. The tasks you’re working on are graceful and elegant, yet also big and weighty. Because of your intensity, you might not look flight-worthy, but you’re actually quite aerodynamic. In fact, your sorties are dazzling and influential. Though your acrobatic zigzags seem improbable, they’re effective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Picasso had mixed feelings about his fellow painter Marc Chagall, who was born under the sign of Cancer. “I’m not crazy about his roosters and donkeys and flying violinists, and all the folklore,” Picasso said, referring to the subject matter of Chagall’s compositions. But he also felt that Chagall was one of the only painters “who understands what color really is,” adding, “There’s never been anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has.” I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be the recipient of mixed messages like these. Praise and disapproval might come your way. Recognition and neglect.

Kudos and apathy. Please don’t dwell on the criticism and downplay the applause. In fact, do the reverse!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) For over a century, the Ringsaker Lutheran Church in Buxton, North Dakota hosted rites of passage, including 362 baptisms, 50 marriages and 97 funerals. It closed in 2002, a victim of the area’s shrinking population. I invite you to consider the possibility that this can serve as a useful metaphor for you, Libra. Is there a place that has been a sanctuary for you, but has begun to lose its magic? Is there a traditional power spot from which the power has been ebbing? Has a holy refuge evolved into a mundane hang-out? If so, mourn for a while, then go in search of a vibrant replacement.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Most people throw away lemon rinds, walnut shells and pomegranate skins. But some resourceful types find uses for these apparent wastes. Lemon rind can serve as a deodorizer, cleaner and skin tonic, as well as a zesty ingredient in recipes. Ground-up walnut shells work well in facial scrubs and pet bedding. When made into a powder, pomegranate peels have a variety of applications for skin care. I suggest you look for metaphorically similar things, Scorpio. You’re typically inclined to dismiss the surfaces and discard the packaging and ignore the outer layers, but I urge you to consider the possibility that right now they might have value.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You’re growing too fast, but that’s fine as long as you don’t make people around you feel they’re moving too slowly.

You know too much, but that won’t be a problem as long as you don’t act snooty. And you’re almost too attractive for your own good, but that won’t hurt you as long as you overflow with spontaneous generosity. What I’m trying to convey, Sagittarius, is that your excesses are likely to be more beautiful than chaotic, more fertile than confusing.

And that should provide you with plenty of slack when dealing with cautious folks who are a bit rattled by your lust for life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Until recently, scientists believed the number of trees on the planet was about 400 billion. But research published in the journal Nature says that’s wrong. There are actually three trillion trees on Earth—almost eight times more than was previously thought. In a similar way, I suspect you have also underestimated certain resources that are personally available to you, Capricorn. Now is a good time to correct your undervaluation. Summon the audacity to recognize the potential abundance you have at your disposal. Then make plans to tap into it with a greater sense of purpose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

a magic mountain in your imagination—and deliver the spicy monologue that has been marinating within you. It would be great if you could gather a sympathetic audience for your revelations, but that’s not mandatory to achieve the necessary catharsis. You simply need to be gazing at the big picture as you declare your big, ripe truths.

Are you ready for a riddle that’s more enjoyable than the kind you’re used to? I’m not sure if you are. You might be too jaded to embrace this unusual gift. You could assume it’s another one of the crazy-making cosmic jokes that have sometimes tormented you in the past. But I hope that doesn’t happen. I hope you’ll welcome the riddle in the liberating spirit in which it’s offered. If you do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as it teases you in ways you didn’t know you wanted to be teased. You’ll feel a delightful itch or a soothing burn in your secret self, like a funny-bone feeling that titillates your immortal soul. P.S.: To take full advantage of the blessed riddle, you might have to expand your understanding of what’s good for you.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) If you were a snake, it would be a fine time to molt your skin. If you were a river, it would be a perfect moment to overflow your banks in a spring flood. If you were an office worker, it would be an excellent phase to trade in your claustrophobic cubicle for a spacious new niche.

In other words, Virgo, you’re primed to outgrow at least one of your containers. The boundaries you knew you would have to transgress someday are finally ready to be transgressed. Even now, your attention span is expanding and your imagination is stretching.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

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The poet John Keats identified a quality he called “negative capability.” He defined it as the power to calmly accept “uncertainties, mysteries and doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

I would extend the meaning to include three other things not to be irritably reached for: artificial clarity, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is the title of an old gospel premature resolution and simplistic answers. Now is song, and now it’s the metaphorical theme of your horo- an excellent time to learn more about this fine art, scope. I advise you to climb a tall peak—even if it’s just Aquarius.

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