Chipco Preserve

Maeve Kiley The Cruelest Month  The 20th-century author & poet, T.S. Elliot, famously stated in the opening lines of The Waste Land , “April is the cruelest month.” The paradoxical reversal of a hopeful spring is framed as “painful” because it forces memory and passion to emerge from the numbness of winter. With April labeled the “Month of Spring,” it is now important to prepare for the new season.  Earth Month 2026 In a digital age so focused on centering its captors’ lives around...

Maeve Kiley   Dr. Susan La Fleche Picotte, the first Native American woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. Photo courtesy of The National Library of Medicine. Early Life Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was born Susan La Flesche on June 17, 1865, on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska. She was the youngest child of E-sta-mah-za “Iron Eyes” (Joseph) La Flesche, the last formal chief of the Omaha Tribe, and his wife, Hin-nu-ags-nun “The One Woman” (Mary) Gale La Flesche. Chief Iron Eyes was...

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