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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2001

"Now look, I’ve been through a lot in my life. I survived my reservation years without wasting any stupid tourists or dying of alcoholism. I’ve been shot at, stabbed, beaten and jailed. I survived my American Indian Movement days, I survived the 'umusic' of the 80s and I even survived Y2K.

As an artist, I’ve survived a life of relative obscurity and living below the poverty level.

But nothing — NOTHING — that I’ve survived and endured in my long life could’ve prepared me for living in a house full of females . . ."

Get the Story:
Potter Column: Surviving family ties in limited space (The Billings Gazette 9/1)

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