Lauren (Bison Nerd) Markewicz

Author Erin Kinsella Interviews Me About My Bison Book youtube.com/watch?feature=… historyboots.wordpress.com/2019/12/14/aut…

Beyond wearing orange: How to meaningfully mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation globalnews.ca/news/9957743/n…

Letitia John died at a residential school. Her identity was lost until now: cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

First Nations have new weapon in traditional land disputes with Sask. government — maps cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

Celebrating Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk: google.com/doodles/celebr…

oh hey it’s him from the sign

It’s 2023 – and women are still being told to cut their art down to size theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

'We were anything but primitive': How Indigenous-led archaeology is challenging colonial preconceptions : cbc.ca/radio/unreserv…

Bison bone found in Prince Albert, Sask., area points to human life there more than 8,000 years ago cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

I was drawn in by some intriguing photos from the 1940s of Canada Geese being released and looking very undignified, and a research dive turned up so much more!

Jack Miner’s Bird Sanctuary and the Early History of Bird Banding in Canada historyboots.wordpress.com/2023/03/18/jac…

Two whale species have recently been spotted using a strange feeding technique that hasn’t been reported for centuries, but matches accounts in medieval texts. iflscience.com/new-whale-beha…

An Evening of Wolf Encounters toomanysparrows.wordpress.com/2023/03/06/an-…

This week, over 900 households in Sweetwater, Texas are getting handwritten letters from kids asking them to help stop the slaughter at their town's annual rattlesnake roundup. I was struck by this quote, which is 100% spot on. 1/6

A Guide to Prince Albert National Park in Winter - hikebiketravel.com/guide-to-princ… via @hikebiketravel (And I'm in this article!)

When my sister saw these wolf videos she sent me this :

I'd followed up the wolf howl program with a stargazing program, and despite the night being fairly (but not entirely) overcast, the aurora still made an appearance!

While double-checking some locations for a Wolf Howl program yesterday afternoon, what should I espy, but a pack of wolves on the lake? (We heard them later on during the program - we howled and they howled back.)

This week I came across what I assume is the first #yegheritage inventory prepared by the City of Edmonton, in August 1982. It identified 37 heritage buildings in #yegdt for retention. What's happened to them in the 41 years since?