Dr. Crystal Lee stopped by New York City today to share Navajo history, culture, and family stories. Lee, a public health postdoc at UCLA, is also the founder of a nonprofit organization that offers mentoring to young Native students, and she regularly advocates for Native youth and young women at the United Nations. She prefers […]
No reward for good behavior
The anniversary of Executive Order 9066 (1942), February 19, drew extra attention this year because of No. 45’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Since US legislators, executives, and judges are determined to reopen so many of the 20th Century’s civil rights debates, it makes sense to take a new look at the laws, rules, […]
When the Pilgrims Met the Borg (Stueart)
My friend Jerome Stueart recently shared his 2010 story “When the Pilgrims Met the Borg: Faith, Perfection, and the Assimilated Pilgrim.” It’s a fantastic mash-up of colonial America and the Star Trek universe, written in the voice and style of Plymouth colony’s William Bradford. My faith, it scares me. Its efficient, courageous march across the […]