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By Peter Huff of Compulsive Reader. This remarkable spiritual memoir tells the story of how one woman learned the cost of authenticity in an age of incessant empire. With an appealing blend of gentle grace and formidable soul-force...

By Karrie Carlson of Daily Journal Media. Believing in a cause and joining the fight can be two very different things. Activist and author Karen Van Fossan...

By C. S. Hagen of The Forum. Before the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protests began in 2016, Karen Van Fossan felt lonely, but she didn’t know why. Before the controversy Van Fossan, a Unitarian Universalist minister living in Fargo, had a longing for an experience of wholeness in the human community.

By April Baumgarten of The Forum. Ryan Netterville claims a Cass County cemetery caretaker damaged his brother's cross. A county leader denied that, saying the cross violated Springvale Cemetery policy...

By Hami Arain of KVRR TV. A little over a year after Shane Netterville was killed by a Fargo police officer, a dispute at a Fargo cemetery is keeping his family from honoring him how they want. Ryan Netterville created this memorial to honor his brother, Shane. “I just figured he deserves something nice especially since it just wasn’t like he just died. He was murdered.”...

By C.S. Hagen of The Forum. More than 30 people gathered at Shane Netterville’s grave at Springvale Cemetery on Saturday, June 8, the one-year anniversary of his death. He was fatally shot by a Fargo police officer on June 8, 2022...

By C.S. Hagen of The Forum. Eighteen speakers took to the stand during the Fargo School Board's public comment period on Tuesday, May 23, to voice both support and opposition regarding Superintendent Rupak Gandhi's recent comments regarding the district's stance on a new transgender law...

By Cathy Lynn Grossman of Publisher's Weekly. Spiritual perspectives on climate change, sustainable living, and food insecurity are drawing attention from religion publishers. Upcoming books address the spiritual significance of the food we eat, the water we rely on, and our responses to issues such as the struggles of Indigenous peoples to protect their sacred lands...

By Vanessa Jugarap and Karen Van Fossan in the High Plains Reader. “Honestly, with this whole thing and how everything’s gone on, I feel like I died that day, too,” said Ryan Netterville, older brother of Shane Netterville, a 28-year-old Indigenous man who was shot and killed by Fargo Police Officer Adam O’Brien last summer. Ryan created a special tribute piece, which now joins the North Dakota Human Rights Arts Festival circuit, to honor his brother and keep a spotlight on the July 8, 2022 shooting...

By Ryan Netterville with Karen Van Fossan in the Northern Mirror. At age 28, Shane Netterville was shot and killed by a Fargo Police Officer, just a few weeks before his birthday. Following the shooting this past summer, his brother Ryan Netterville created this artwork in Shane’s honor...

By Elaine McArdle of UU World. Rattler is an Oglala Lakota Tribal member who spent three years in federal prison for charges related to protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, and he wants you to know one thing: he would go back to prison in a heartbeat. “It was worth it because it was the right thing to do,” said Rattler...

By C.S. Hagen of The Forum. "A more than 500-year-old declaration that paved the way for widespread colonization outside Europe will be the center of a daylong conference in Fargo..."

By Karen Van Fossan in The Forum. "I signed up to be an election judge this year, after learning that election workers in 2020 had turned away New Americans as well as U.S.-born citizens who they believed to be New Americans..."