“There is something inherently wrong within the words, "Native American isn't blood..." I am fully aware of the history around blood quantum, but I am fully aware of the way white Americans deal with guilt, and the jerk kneed response to the claims many white people make in the awakening that occurs within oppressed people given freedoms after the fighting. Between those two pillars of being something disingenuous lurks stripping away at identity, so slyly, sovereign nations can find themselves ousted from their own self. It has happened throughout the last 500 hundred years in various ways. The same thing, the same phraseology occurred during and after the Civil Rights, and the Black Power movements. These times require authenticity from us all, and a welcome gathering from within and with all people. Being truthful in these times are as difficult as in times gone past.” – Gregory E. Woods Native American beauty of Bonnie-Jill Laflin with troops Native American celloist, Dawn Avery