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cilla4progress

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18. I was fortunate to work on Indian reservations

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 11:55 PM

Oct 2014

for 4 years, providing a free service through legal aid to tribal members to write wills, so they could pass their land (and personal property), as they wished, not as the law provided.

Today my co-workers scoffed at the notion that some are choosing to observe National Indigenous Day, instead of Columbus Day. I have to wonder how much they know about Columbus, and his actions in the "new world."

Thank you, Howard Zinn, for educating me.

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