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He mentions the significance of some artifacts, which include “arrowheads and pieces of arrowhead that my father found and collected. He passed away three-ish years ago, so this is one of the things I took away from him. This cloth and the braided sweetgrass and this clam shell were given to me by a Native American elder in Minnesota when I went to her university to do some work with her. This was dyed in a traditional Native American fashion by burying it in the snow with dyes.”

The decorated, lofty bookshelves serve as another focal point of the room, one Jim says he is especially grateful for as a defining element of his office. “The books here are all on leadership, higher education, which is what I do research on,” Wohlpart says.

Jim shows his own environmental philosophy writings and journals his work has been published in. He tells a tale of how perseverance and belief allowed him to publish a book that took a decade to complete.

“I have always imagined what is possible on the horizon and worked really hard to get there,” Wohlpart says. “So the book ‘Walking in the Land of Many Gods’ took me ten years to write … I didn’t have to write a

story by Katherine Camarata/ The Observer

photos by Yohanes Goodell

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