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Lorraine is a writer covering science, history, and anything else that piques her curiosity. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Hakai Magazine, Passblue, Slate and others. Her first narrative nonfiction book, The Last Voyageurs (Pegasus Books/2016) was a finalist for the Chicago Book of the Year Award. In addition to working as a journalist, Lorraine is a sailor, Francophone, native of the Great Lakes region, sword fighter, animal-lover, and fiction writer.
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Harvard University's Peabody Museum was one of many museums that once used pesticides on Native American cultural objects.

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Museums Once Coated Native Cultural Objects in Toxic Pesticides

Before you can decolonize a museum collection, you may need to decontaminate it.

By Lorraine Boissoneault
According to the origin story of the Tseshaht people, retold by the archaeologist Denis St. Claire, “Kwatyaat was the creator of the world we can see around us. He had a son called Kapkimyis, and in this story Kapkimyis is here with a shaman. Standing here, they cut with a mussel shell knife the thigh of Kapkimyis. The blood was scooped up and blown into. One version says the first woman emerges, the other says the first man...."

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A First Nation, a Fight for Ancestral Lands, and an Unlikely Alliance

The Tseshaht people are working with archaeologists to write a new chapter in a fraught history.

By Lorraine Boissoneault
Andrea Kramer, of the Chicago Botanic Garden, pollinating "cabbage on a stick."

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Could a Gene Bank Save Endangered Plants From Extinction?

A "plant studbook" might help botanic gardens bring rare breeds back from the brink.

By Lorraine Boissoneault

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