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Show Your News MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005 PAGEA12 hooge's heroes Well I didn't have much background in this, although I had a humanities background so I could write very well. Since I could write well I found out that I could do this consulting too. So I started doing this business while she was in school. One of our clients was this tiny little junior college in South-Eastern Montana. They called us up one day, we were getting pretty sick of Chicago, and they said would you like to come out and work for the college as staff members; we couldn't wait! It was the best thing that ever happened to us. We lived in a trailer, and Spotlight on David Wilson up getting married; they say you can never meet anyone Senior News Writer nice in a bar, well it's probt is understood that you Hanna - How did you get the ably still true for her, but not never fully grasp a per- opportunity to live in a tribal for me. So, she was in sociology and she had this business son's perspective until you community? where she was doing various "walk a mile in their shoes." Doing what that common David - I was actually a kinds of consulting, grants, phrase suggests is an interest- Latin teacher, believe it or contracts, survey research for ing opportunity not everyone not. [Some colleagues and I] Indian tribes and organizagets. However, one professor would always go for happy tions. Then she got a scholarof history and avid supporter hour at this bar and one Friday ship to go to the University of of the multicultural depart- afternoon I met this beautiful Chicago, where she couldn't ment did. David Wilson spent woman there. Well, we ended carry on this business. time in a place most of us will never venture into. 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It was great. We spent several years living on the northern Cheyenne reservation. We were administrators and teachers at the tribal community college. It's called Chief Dullknife College. Even since coming down here our home is still in Montana; that is where our hearts are and that is probably where I will go when Sederburgfiresme. David - A lot of people at UVSC think of me as the faculty member who does activities with students. That didn't start here. About two months after we moved to the reservation, we weren't teaching, we were just administrators; some of the Indian students there came up to me and they asked me to be in their haunted house. I wanted to get to know them, so I said sure. So I showed up that night and it was so weird. We had just moved to this reservation and I was thinking I would be doing all of this cool Indian stuff, but instead I become a participant in a haunted house. I said, "What do I do here?" and they gave me this huge, I mean huge, pumpkin that they had hollowed out, I had to be the pumpkin head of the haunted house. That was my first real public exposure to the northern Cheyenne tribe, I mean these are the people who beat Custard, they killed Custard and then they put a pumpkin on my head. It was embarrassing, although since then we have done other things that would probably be my most memorable. Hanna - If you could sum up your experiences and tell what you learned to the students and faculty at UVSC, what would you say? -ZJL S oddtoyour after mail-in rebate RCWilley -David Wilson Hanna - Tell me one of your most memorable experiences while being there. BEFORE CLASS, BETWEEN CLASSES, AFTER CLASS, & SOMETIMES DURING ClASS F "A lot of people at UVSC think of me as the faculty member who does activities with students. fAppEutoia-dnh ( 0 1 taamt ded p»tha» SW.W an) op. Bait Iratall enfc Optional fwtoim, rnmkk, tiB & cmtoi m k orn cbotged exlia David - This is what I want and I am going to say it directly to you. I want you to take lots of sociology and political science [courses] and I want you to become a reporter, okay? I want you to understand that even though Indians are less than one percent of the population, they are still a very important part of the population. There are really important issues out in Indian country that no one else knows about because Indians tend to be invisible to the rest of the world. Let me give you an example. For many, many years Indians were not allowed to manage their own money. The government had trust accounts for them, and the government was the trustee. It turned out several years ago that these funds had been grossly mismanaged; that the government had lost literally billions of dollars that belong to Indian people. And we wonder why they are poor. They are not poor because they are lazy or because they are incompetent or anythingthey are poor because they had money and the government simply lost it. They can't even find where it is now. They are poor because when we dream up welfare reforms, for instance, it's a nice idea everybody who applies for welfare has to be looking for a job, but when you live in a community where there are no jobs, are we going to deny them a safety net? Maybe we need people like you, Hanna, to visit these reservations and write about it so that the public can understand what it is like from their perspective. Why don't they just move to cities? Well, they do move to cities and when they apply for jobs they don't get them because there is such a thing as racial discrimination. I know people who have applied for jobs and their potential employer has laughed at them and called them a "prairie nigger." It happens and it has happened here in Utah Valley too. With more and more scholars and journalists who are willing to look at other voices, other sides of some of these arguments, maybe we can educate the public and make people understand that Indians are people and they have the exact same concerns as everyone else. The problem is we have these stereotypes and caricatures that we impose on Indians and other minorities and we don't have enough people who are willing to ask the questions. We don't have enough people who are willing just to listen. BRIDAL ?^[lif? 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