I have had an interesting conversation with a reader (not a One Feather reader and not to say that I couldn’t have interesting conversations with One Feather readers). I had submitted a column to another newspaper because I wanted to express my opinion, and a counterpoint to, another commentary. This drew an immediate reaction from the author and started a discussion on the meaning of certain words.

“It is very important to get out and educate for this upcoming election. We need to take a serious look at all candidates. Take the “D’s” (Democrat) and “R’s” (Republican) off the candidates.

Think of all those pursuits we have in life. Every one of us has them.

We know that a substantial portion of our readership may only ingest the first sentence of any written piece, and we have documented cases of readers who have read the headline only. In those cases, they will publicly comment on content that they never read.

For centuries, Native peoples have been defying expectations – we have termed this: resilience. At the onset of colonization, we were characterized as unintelligent, uncivilized savages.

Joshua 1, God tells his people that the land He promised is directly in front of them, but they needed the courage to take it. As New Testament Christians, our Great Commandment is similar.