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Below is Whisper #39 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. It is delicate to not be Indian and yet write about Indian Country. Only Indians should speak for Indians is…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #38 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. What do you do while you are at Pine Ridge? This is a question I often receive back home in…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #37 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. During the COVID-19 pandemic I once heard someone rhetorically ask, What if we are the virus? It was a hypothetical question….
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #36 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I remember how I felt the first time I realized that genocide was part of the American story. It was…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #35 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I have read and heard that the American Dream is dead. With this pronouncement comes the suggestion that it was…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #34 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Time is more than just an opportunity to be productive. This understanding is a gift I brought home with me…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #33 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once helped the Oglala Sioux Tribe build a home in a reservation community near the Nebraska border. Our company…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #32 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. If you read a news report summarizing the challenges at Pine Ridge you might well conclude that the situation is…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #31 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. In an uncertain world filled with chaos, diversity, and strife, isolationism has its advocates. If I retreat, perhaps I can…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #30 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I have a valued friend by the name of Gabrielli LaChiara. She is a healer who recovered from a potentially…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #29 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Confronting our authentic feelings about a past injustice is an important early step toward healing, but for enduring change to…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #28 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Pain and trauma have been inextricably linked to the human experience. Setbacks and losses are universal. Everyone will be wounded….
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #27 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. The highest aspiration for mankind should be freedom for all. But freedom is elusive, tricky to define, and surprisingly hard…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #25 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I have been at Pine Ridge many times in late October. Halloween gatherings are organized in most communities across the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #23 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. For centuries empires grew by amassing power into the center. “All roads lead to Rome,” as the ancient saying goes….
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #22 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. “The world did not become round only at the point when it was acceptable to say it was round.” —Jan…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #21 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. There is no one single nation or tribe that has cornered the market on great people. Great people are abundant…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #20 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. In my early days at Hancock Lumber we had sweatshirts with our logo on them that read “Our People Make…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #19 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once attended a powwow in honor of Tamokoce Te’Hila at the Prairie Wind Casino. Billy Mills, as he is…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #18 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. When I entered the world of business thirty years ago, “staying in your lane” was considered an expected practice for…
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