Intertribal Life Newspaper -

People ask me the strangest questions.

Why don’t you live in a teepee? Why don’t you make a pair of moccasins for me? Why don’t you know how to cook a buffalo? Why don’t you know some secret herbs and plants to cure my arthritis? Why aren’t you rich from all the Indian casino money?

When I say I live in a house, I don’t make moccasins for people, I don’t know how to cook a whole buffalo and I don’t know any herbs to cure arthritis and I’ve never received a penny of casino money, they are shocked and say...

“But you’re an Indian...!” People who are not Indigenous expect a lot from Natives.

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