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Rowan Lynam

Rowan Lynam is a genderqueer journalist and poet living in Charleston, SC. You can view their work at www.rowanlynam.com.
Posted on October 5, 2018 October 8, 2018

Where The Sacred Grows On The Water

Rowan Lynam
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Rowan Lynam
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climate-change, minnesota, native-americans, native-land, ojibwe, spirituality
close up of logs burning at night

In an unused conference room at the Bad River reservation lodge, Rose passed a Styrofoam cup of coffee from one weathered hand to the other, and told me about a prophecy that has guided the Ojibwe for hundreds of years. He told the story of the Seventh Fire. Read more

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