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Feeling Racism

I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself.

(10/26/2009)

Lessons from Banking in Indian Country

In the final months of 2008, as I watched some of America’s largest financial institutions teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, and some of the financial giants fail, I thought of my own experience on the Board of Directors of the American National Bank and how sorely lacking we were in knowledge and experience in the highly competitive and volatile world of banking and financing.

(10/19/2009)

The Mad Dog Solution

The first person I ever heard identify dependency as a root cause of much of the problems of Indian Country was a man we knew as Robert "Mad Dog" McLaughlin.

(9/12/2009)

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