Non-Native Americans have lived for generations with a terrible handicap when it comes to understanding the first inhabitants of the land we are all walking on today. Hampered by biased and inaccurate cultural myths and poor or utterly incorrect public school education, our vague beliefs about the story of Indian Country have obscured the truth [...]

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How happy I am to have met my major sewing goal of 2009 – sewing 2 warm, organic winter coats for my husband and myself. This was a big project, but not beyond the capabilities of anyone who knows how to use a sewing machine. Coats are one of those items of clothing you may [...]

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I am so frustrated, sitting down to write this article. I am so ashamed. How can people live their whole lives in California, go to school, read newspapers and many books, interact with their neighbors and yet remain so comfortably ignorant of the true history of this state that they are doomed to repeat the [...]

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