Q. Where are you from and how does that affect your work? (If at all)A. "I'm from a small town on the Yakama Indian Reservation called White Swan, named after one of the first elected Yakama Nation tribal council officials; after our war leader Chief Kamiakan's 1855 (Yakama Wars) resistance ended and his self-imposed exile to now so called Canada; all while other leaders were being murdered by the US Army. But this small town is home for many Yakama, and it doesn't affect my work in a negative way, if anything, it inspires me. I see the strength and resilience here in the people. This land is full of medicine. People dig roots here in the foot hills where wild horses roam and the......
