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Indian Country & health care reform

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Our system ties health care to our jobs There is much talk about the recession reaching bottom. The economy at a turning point. Again. The proof, at least this time, was the drop in the national unemployment rate to 10 percent. But that data point doesn’t really reflect the jobs picture in this country. Here [...]

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Learning to ignore the hate mongers

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In the more than 30 years I have been writing I have found that there are those who will launch vicious attacks upon me and most of the attacks are from people with a personal, political axe to grind. If I responded every time someone wrote or said something about me, I would be spending [...]

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Opening the dialogue on America’s dirty secret

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There seems to be a consensus among several tribal elders that there is trauma impacting Native Americans as the residue of the boarding school era. They believe that anyone speaking publicly about the sexual abuse of Indian children at Indian mission and Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools better have thick skins because they will [...]

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