“The Animals Are Going Crazy!”

Steve Russell
7 min readNov 20, 2019
Republicans Who Don’t Believe in Climate Change Looking for Water. From Pixabay.

Years before An Inconvenient Truth, the Internet sounded the alarm for those of us who talk to Inuit or Athabascan Indians.

Animals, they said, were turning up in the wrong places or at the wrong times or failing to turn up at all. For people who still practice subsistence hunting, such things are hard not to notice. Later…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)