Articles by Maria Peralta-Arellano

Across the nation, college activists have joined high-profile campus protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war. UWM students set up their encampment at the corner of Kenwood and Downer avenues. Maria Arellano reports.

As a 4th generation fisherman and starting his fishing career at 15 during the summers with his father, Chris Wright would work on the fishing boats while on break from school. Eventually going to college, Wright kept the tradition of fishing in the summers to support himself.  Wright now runs three fishing boats, one of […]

NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts — Captain Alan Curtis is not a fragile man. He speaks with a strong raspy voice that always has a quick-witted response to what life throws at him. With a strong build created from years of serving in the scallop industry, Curtis gives valuable knowledge of what working in the fishing industry […]

Knuckleheads is one of the last few remaining fishermen’s bars found close to the New Bedford harbor. Working men and women can be found eating and catching up with one another, often still in their work clothes and boots, fresh off the boats they fish on.   This was just the case for Benjamin Tweedie and […]

LAC DU FLAMBEAU, Wisconsin — Dennis Pearson stood on the edge of a frozen lake, dressed in black and yellow snow gear and a snowmobile to match. He chose a spot in the middle between his house, located about a mile away, and a neighbor’s house, who houses multiple cars of non-tribal residences that are […]

From articles discussing the walleye wars to modern day coverage of water protectors, Native Americans and the media have often had struggles of equal representation, context and attention in native communities and the news that exists around them. The intricate relationship between Indigenous communities and media outlets has run a course that has sowed distrust, […]

Kristen Faith Green is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Green is earning her degree with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in English. Green opens up about her college experience and how COVID has affected her social habits and how she sees the student community on campus Maria: Would you like […]