Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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Charles Fillmore, Educator (1948) |
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