Dear Mr. Keillor and Company, I am embarrassed that it took me several years of listening to your show, and enjoying it, before I noticed that there is a big piece missing in your shows. That is, the native people of Minnesota, North Dakota, etc. Were I to speak a word about them, I would be eaten alive. I can talk freely about my own Scots-Anglo fundamentalists or about Lutherans or about German Catholics, but it is not possible for me or any other white person to talk about Indians except in mythic terms. I say that in all good humor.
Life is full of limitations.
They don't bother me. Mary Lee Dear Mary, the Hopefuls are retired now, since our alto, Kate MacKenzie, decided to quit the music business, and so there won't be a new album. We are defunct. That beautiful song, though, has already been recorded by a fabulous band out east, and their name is on the tip of my tongue. I'll remember it.