<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Richard, I agree. Hope to meet you this fall when you're in Mpls. St Paul for your award!<div><br></div><div>m</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 5, 2010, at 10:13 AM, MJ Hardman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Thank you, Richard. Your words are a balm on troubled times. MJ<br> <br> On 5/5/10 9:41 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" <<a href="rzs@WILDBLUE.NET">rzs@WILDBLUE.NET</a>> wrote:<br> <br> </span></font><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Kweh,<br> <br> I think what Wilma Thin Elk said was so well put:<br> </span></font><font size="1"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">"...Thin Elk said she was still trying to make sense of what happened Saturday.<br> <i>"We have an airport in Pine Ridge. Why didn't they land over there and come to the site <br> ... in a car?" she asked. "What was the whole point?"<br> </i></span></font></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br> Some wonder why we always bring up the past and tell us "get over it!"<br> but unless we remember it,we become numb, inactive and unaware of <br> what many in the majority culture choose to remain ignorant about.<br> <br> What outsiders often decide is "honoring First Nations peoples"<br> may in its very action , be actually degrading and give proof of cultural ignorance.<br> The best Intentions when coupled by Insensitivity can cause the worst damage.<br> <br> <br> Richard Zane Smith<br> Wyandotte, Okl.<br> <br> <br> </span></font></blockquote> </div> </blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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