From the Grass Roots

The town of Neligh enjoys a significant place in Nebraska’s collective consciousness, and not just because recent years have brought national and even international media attention to Art and Helen Tanderups’ farm, the sight of Bold Nebraska’s Harvest the Hope concert and a series of crop art protest installations by artist-activist John Quigley. The picturesque farming community of 1,500 residents, located on the north bank of the meandering Elkhorn River, is also home to a well-known marker that precedes the Keystone fight by over a century: the grave site of White Buffalo Girl. In 1877 U.S. government agents removed the