Betsy Froiland
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Q&A: A Family History of Indigenous Land Displacement | The Daily Yonder (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. Writing a memoir was not in the plan for Jill Swenson. Originally trained in journalism, Swenson figured she would stick to her trade when it came to writing the hist
ICE Seeks “Zombie Prison" in Rural Minnesota | The Daily Yonder (opens the original)
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An empty 1,600-bed private prison has sat idly on land that was once a soybean field in rural Appleton, Minnesota since the prison failed and, as a result, tanked the town’s economy in 2010. Now, ICE is seeking to reinhabit the bones of Prairie Correctional Facility (PCF) and use it as a new detention facility, according to a federal contract released on June 4. ICE is coordinating the effort with CoreCivic, the same private prison company that oversaw the operation and failure of PCF. Appleton
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