Thus far, June has proven to be a bad month. There has been one death after another. My friends father died last week, a girl I went to school with committed suicide, another friends father died, and now my brother in laws mother died yesterday. Last year this time my best friend’s father died. I am in shock. The only thing I don’t share in common with everyone else I have been into contact with about…

All the people dressing up as Native Americans for Halloween

(poca-hotness) has me thinking about native beliefs and how Christianity has

affected our culture. I'm Alaskan Native (Tlingit, Haida) and our culture and

language has been suppressed for years. When the missionaries came the Natives

were told that their dances and totem poles were evil and because Natives

were dying of disease they started to believe them. Natives were not even

allowed to speak their…