My life came to a watershed in 1988 when I was forced to either teach what was in the selected history text or end my teaching career. I couldn't lie to my students so I ended my teaching career. Today, through my websites, I teach thousands each day instead of a little over a hundred public school students each year. I've taken my art across the USA, Europe, and Australia, taught over 10,000 people on three continents about the art and culture of my people, and more than 13 million on my websites.
I cannot live a lie or an illusion. An authentic life has been my goal for many years. I wish that for my children and grandchildren. I wish that for all children and grandchildren.
When I brought my Native American art to my family reunion, my eldest aunts and uncles admitted that I was probably doing these "Indian things" because Grandma Bertha was Indian. My friend, Larry Cloud Morgan, died in 1998 but he had been my mentor in bringing me to understand the ways of the Ojibwe. I learned many things that were outside my experience and training. I learned to step out of the frame of reference that had been created to contain me and now I show others how to step outside of the frame into freedom.
I've created two main websites to replace the one stolen from me in 2006. First, www.real-debt-elimination.com and second, www.real-dream-catchers.com. I've moved www.real-debt-elimination.com into the top 100 of over 2 million competing websites for debt elimination and www.real-dream-catchers.com to #18 out of 308,000, finally passing the stolen website after only a year and a half of steady work. Several more websites are in the planning stages awaiting their turn to hit the Internet, tires squealing. The other website saw traffic of more than 4.5 million hits a month. My megaweb will eventually see that many each day.
