White Settlement

The scientific findings of Suzanne Simard that trees are linked into vast underground networks inform Powers’ novel about white settlement of the American continent.

"I think it's to our detriment that we have not been able to really adhere to the deep-time, vibrant history that came before white settlement."

In December 2019, a man shot and killed two people during a church service at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth.

The White Settlement church formed a volunteer security team in response to that law.

Long before white settlement and Lewis and Clark tramped through the area now known as Missoula, the Séliš and Qĺispé buffalo hunters gathered in the place where the Blackfoot and the Clark Fork Rivers meet to plan and reconnoiter, and to tell stories of their dangerous hunts.