I have been blessed to bring many gifts to the reservations…food, clothing, blankets, supplies, and crafts. But never before have I needed to bring cinder blocks to women in a chipboard shed for protection from AK-47 firepower! Unfortunately this time it was different. A short, middle-aged woman and her daughter were once living next door […]
“That’s the spot where they killed him…Could you take a picture with your phone of the shrine on your side of the road?” I asked him. He said he would and I slowed the van down…He took a good shot out of his passenger window, before texting me the photo. I thanked him while my […]
My car was doing its best with the rough reservation backroads. My guide was leading me out into the more remote areas with the remaining Christmas stockings and gifts…bouncing and tumbling in the seat behind us. We had already given out plenty of stockings to the children in the main village and now we were […]
When my dad was a young boy his uncle (Mami Churso) told him that they were going to leave the sheep camp the next morning and take a long walk to the town of Amadiya for supplies. Mami Churso said that he believed my dad was strong enough to keep-up with the men on the […]