The United States public is very well versed in the Euro-centric Thanksgiving and all the traditional attendant values it conjures up. What is not at all well understood is how indigenous people view this same event. If you look up on the Internet some of the Native American descriptive terms for the same event, you would find genocide, haunting, grieving, red holocaust, etc. Native Americans feel a special kind of guilt, a learned hopelessness, a loss of identity, a separate

After yet another successful boot camp out at the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, MT, we can't help but stop and think about what an incredible experience it was. Not a single person who was there came back home the same person. But as Lavar Burton in Reading Rainbow used to say, "You don't have to take my word for it..." Going to Bootcamp was an amazing experience and I would highly recommend making the trip and sharing your love there. Something about the experience chang