We Are the People
By: Damian Webster Are we Indian? Are we Native American? Are we Indigenous? First Nations? American Indian? When I tell my daughters who they are, I don't tell them they're 'Indian.' In fact, I tell them they're not Indian. They're Ögwe'ö:weh, Nimi'ipuu, and Dakota. I've heard Ögwe'ö:weh translated as "first people" or "real people" and in [...]read more
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