In government, they call it downsizing. In reality, it's an abrogation of responsibility. For the BIA to wash its hands of Indian education is an abrogation of responsibility and a modern twist to genocide. But we are both writing about it now and that writing about it has been a consumming passion for the past year. There is an English word I am only now discovering.
Indifference is the ultimate obstacle.
Aahasti is the answer to the problem. It was a surrendering. To someone much smaller, much more vulnerable than I was. I was forced to see his beauty and mine. And now I am forced to live without his beauty and to know that in the final analysis the Navajo are correct.