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Shaw 02138 Deputy Editor: Craig Lambert Associate Editor: Elizabeth Gudrais Cambridge Production and New Media Manager: Mark Felton Assistant Editor: Nell Porter Brown Green energy options, foreign policy, medical errors, military jurist Staff Writer: Paul Gleason Associate Web Developer: Blaise Freeman Art Director: Jennifer Carling LAKSHMINARAYANAN MAHADEVAN Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows Re “The Physics of the Familiar” (by Samuel Bjork, Liz Goodwin Jonathan Shaw, March-April, page 46): Editorial Intern: Mountains, valleys are wrinkled earth. Ashton R. Lattimore Glossy grapes shrink into raisins. Maps of life illustrate old faces— Contributing Editors Because skin folds to fit. John T. Bethell, John de Cuevas, Adam Neurons bend toward memories. Goodheart, Jim Harrison, Harbour Fraser Hodder, Christopher S. Johnson, He thinks, therefore we learn. E. James Lieberman, M.P.H. ’63 Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, Christopher Reed, Deborah Smullyan, Potomac, Md. Mark Steele, Janet Tassel COLLECTIVE TRAUMA Editorial and Business O≠ice I am writing regarding “Trail of Tears, 7 Ware Street, and Hope” (by Craig Lambert, March- Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037 Tel. 617-495-5746; fax: 617-495-0324 April, page 39). I applaud the magazine Website: www.harvardmagazine.com for focusing on this important issue and Reader services: for highlighting the promising work of My own experience with Northern 617-495-5746 or 800-648-4499 Sousan Abadian. All too often the hard- Plains and Saskatchewan First Nations ships imposed upon indigenous people, in leads me to emphasize the paternalistic HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. President: Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, the United States and in other countries, policies that destroyed a large number of Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98. Directors: Richard are overlooked or seen as ancient history, First Nations communities a century ago: H. 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The magazine is supported by that the wrongs indigenous peoples have sions for children to roam and play, so reader contributions and subscriptions, advertising rev- suffered are purely historical. As a telling they sit watching television (in English, enue, and a subvention from Harvard University. Its edi- torial content is the responsibility of the editors. Periodi- example, the main countries discussed in losing their own languages). Unemploy- cals postage paid at Boston, Mass., and additional mailing the article, the United States and Canada, ment is high because the reservations o≠ices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Circulation Department, Harvard Magazine, 7 Ware Street, Cam- together with Australia and New were deliberately placed away from trans- bridge, Mass. 02138-4037. Subscription rate $30 a year in U.S. and possessions, $55 Canada and Mexico, $75 other Zealand, are the only countries that re- portation to “protect” the Indians from foreign. (Allow up to 10 weeks for first delivery.) Sub- cently voted against the United Nations exploitation by incoming whites. Indians scription orders and customer service inquiries should be sent to the Circulation Department, Harvard Magazine, 7 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous have not been able to develop businesses Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037, or call 617- 495-5746 or 800-648-4499, or e-mail addresschanges@har- Peoples. The collective trauma of many because they have no collateral for loans, vard.edu. Single copies $4.95, plus $2.50 for postage and Native peoples is made worse by the their lands being in trust or highly di- handling. Manuscript submissions are welcome, but we cannot assume responsibility for safekeeping. Include harms that continue to this day. vided among multiple heirs. On Northern stamped, self-addressed envelope for manuscript re- Ezra Rosser, J.D. ’03 Plains reservations, most of the economi- turn. Persons wishing to reprint any portion of Harvard Magazine’s contents are required to write in advance for Assistant professor of law cally viable land has been leased in large permission. Address inquiries to Catherine A. Chute, publisher, at the address given above. Washington College of Law, American University sections to white ranching families, some Copyright © 2008 Harvard Magazine Inc. Washington, D.C. with five generations on these leased 4 May - June 2008 LETTERS properties. Because of these intractable shameful situation at the Graduate governmental policies, Indian people School of Education (GSE), where the quite rightly feel helpless. typical master’s student graduates May I urge you to do another article $45,000 in debt. Do they then go on to that forgoes the feel-good New Age heal- $200,000 jobs as do the Business School Publisher: Catherine A. Chute ing jargon and instead…[focuses on] why and Law School alumni? Of course not. Finance and Administrative Manager: “healing” will come with economic devel- They go into the lowest-paying—but Irina Kuksin opment created by First Nations them- most important to society—jobs of teach- Director of Circulation and Fundraising: selves, from which will come political ing our youth, at salaries below what your Felecia Carter freedom from stifling imposed practices.
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