Based on a true story of medical science vs. Native American beliefs, Laufer's play creates a too-simplistic binary picture of the issues, though the production is worth seeing for its excellent staging and acting.
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Book Review: ‘The New Trail of Tears’ by Naomi Schaefer Riley
'The New Trail of Tears' by Naomi Schaefer Riley is a stark reminder of those communities not featured on our nightly news or mentioned in most national politics.
Read More »Movie Review: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’ with Leonardo DiCaprio
Mysticism and grueling violence make strange bedfellows in Iñárritu’s well-crafted but ultimately empty wilderness journey.
Read More »Thanksgiving – Being Thankful Today and Everyday
If you are gathering with one or one hundred people today, you definitely have something for which to be grateful.
Read More »Columbus Day – Talking to Kids About the Explorer
We can see Columbus as either a daring explorer who set out like a 15th century Captain Kirk to go “where no man had gone before,” or we can see him as an inept navigator who grossly underestimated the size of the earth and the distance across the ocean.
Read More »‘New York Post’ Jacoby Ellsbury Headline Offensive
I believe the newspaper and its chairman Rupert Murdoch owe Ellsbury and the Native American community a sincere and public apology.
Read More »Book Review: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious History Of Native People In North America by Thomas King
A history that's not going to be everyone's liking as it runs contrary to most people's idea of Indians.
Read More »TV Review: Reel Injun on PBS
A history of the depiction of Native Americans on the big screen.
Read More »Book Review: Inside America’s Concentration Camps: Two Centuries Of Internment And Torture by James L. Dickerson
A troubling look at some of the darker aspects of American history.
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