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Badgerfiles: On Badgers and Emergences

9 Jan 2026 | Badgers, Indigenous Literature, Indigenous Studies

[Originally posted 13 January 2015] Among the Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest, the solitary North American species of badger, Taxidea taxus, is a primordial friend and ally; indeed, as Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko observes, it was a she-badger who made possible the migration…

Badgerfiles: What is a Badger?

2 Jan 2026 | Badgers, History, Indigenous Studies

[Originally posted 28 November 2014] What is a badger? A simple question, but not such a simple answer, as the category of “badger” is actually quite a malleable and dynamic one. Historically, and across many cultures throughout the world, badgers have long been considered a smallish type of bear,…

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Badgerfiles: On Badgers and Emergences

Badgerfiles: What is a Badger?

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