Intertribal Life Newspaper -

My father didn't want me-he told me so. He made me feel unloved and worthless. Later in my teen years, things got worse: More chaos...my dad's angry, drunken rampages. I spent so many nights huddled in the corner of my room, in the dark, in tears. Then on September 1, 2013, my dad put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. He killed himself; abandoning my mother, brothers, and I, and hurtling us into a world of hurt and uncertainty.