Gyasi Ross

On the rez, the kids at my school got into fights quite a bit. We had this saying, when one of the few white kids (or one of the Indian kids that “looked white”) who went to our school was involved: “A fight!...

January 10, 2012
Gyasi Ross
January 09, 2012
I've always been fascinated by those shows Intervention , Animal Hoarders , et al...
Gyasi Ross
December 30, 2011
The Skins here at The Thing About Skins take New Year's very seriously...
Our culture, our people, our languages, and our children are the greatest gifts that Indian people have...
Gyasi Ross
December 18, 2011
“There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.” —The Bible. Juan Baptiste...
Chuck Trimble

We’ve been told for many years “don’t judge a book by its cover.” I would add to that, “don’t judge a book by its title either.”...

December 17, 2011
It doesn’t matter if it was an Indian mom or not—being a broke single mom during Christmas sucks...
I think, based only on my own observation ( 1 ) (I’m really too lazy to do any research this late in the day), that a lower percentage of Indian kids believe in Santa Claus than an...
Lately, it seems like some of the younger, very, very, very educated Indians are very focused on white people who emulate Native styles of dress, jewelry, fashion, etc...
>Belch< Nobody does Thanksgiving like the rez. Period. On any one of the various reservations that I lived on, Turkey Day was always special...

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