Between the Crickets and Coyotes is a project examining what America looks like today and how that physical reality contradicts the written and unwritten histories of land transfer across 500 years. These histories are expressed through the etymology of place names, the Native American nations whose land the United States occupies, and the racial and ethnic makeup of these towns and cities today. America’s diversity of name origins (Dutch, Iroquois, Spanish, Apache, English) can be used as a tool for revealing the violence and cultural erasure that are products of white settler-colonialism.