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Revelo/Espial Design Group LLC accepts no responsibility for the consequences of error or for any loss or damage suffered by users of any of the information and material contained in this publication or its website. Bianca Cordova Michael C. Upton Brooke Carlock Miller Design, Video, Photography, (717) 364-4344 Photographer Writer Writer Illustration, Branding, Promotion EspialDesignGroup.com DENNY ONE WOLF Amidst feathered dream catchers and the Métis in North America. The website Voyageur Dakota... “Very, very deep into the wilderness sweet smell of new leather, I sat down across Métis explains, “Generations of fear and with his family,” says One Wolf. But even from Denny One Wolf in his Willow Street gift hiding caused our culture to sometimes be Cutthroat knew of at least one family member shop. A chief of the Métis Nation of the United fragmented.” One Wolf echoes this sentiment. with light skin. States, he has been actively amassing his “We’ve been stuck away, some hoping we “You go into the reservations today and you knowledge of Native American people for more would just go away… instead, we’ve become can see the differences. There is red hair and than 30 years. Our conversation begins with educated,” says One Wolf, who grew up in the blonde hair. Indians have what we call blue- a serious and somber tone, but not one to be area of Lancaster City known as Sunnyside, black hair, but the interbreeding process will confused with sadness. served in the U.S. military, and now resides wind up being the downfall to the American “Métis means mixed blood,” says One Wolf, in Conestoga. Indian people,” says One Wolf. comfortable to talk about any subject facing One Wolf traces his ancestry beyond the family Here we entered into a long and winding Native Americans past, present, and future. tree and into the realm of DNA. A minimum conversation about Native American rights, “My ancestry goes to the Shawnee People and requirement for inclusion into the Métis, Federal infringement on property, and social the Delaware.” says One Wolf, is one percent of Métis blood stigmas and acceptance. Everyone walks a path When European colonists arrived in what verified by DNA testing. He was surprised with and for much of his life, One Wolf followed the would become the Americas in the 15th and his own results. He knew his grandmother was wrong road. By the end of our conversation, I 16th centuries, they commingled with Native Shawnee and his grandparents on his father’s realize there may be nothing more historically Americans. Native American bloodlines side were Delaware; they had a “typical look” valuable than a living history—the stories of became infused with European influence. one would expect in a Native American. One Wolf dancing in a tribal circle as a child, “American Indians generally turned their back It turned out that the amount of Native his struggles from alcoholism to the presence on mixed blood Indians. We can talk about that American blood in his veins was more than he of a spirit guide, and why he has stuck by his for days, the sadness that’s involved with being anticipated—over 70 percent. wife’s side through sickness and health. His is a mixed blood. You have to learn to live in two “In this generation, it is almost impossible for one story… but, it is a story of many. worlds,” says One Wolf. “As history advanced, it any American Indian to say he is 100 percent, just got worse.” true-blooded, American Indian,” he claims. A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Predominantly associated with populations in At this point, One Wolf digresses into the story Sitting down to write this story I encountered a Canada, the Métis came to the United States of Ronnie Cutthroat, a Lakota whose father myriad of obstacles when considering the proper following a series of uprisings in the 1800s. earned the fierce sobriquet by fighting against terminology and language to use in order to Called the “Landless Indians of Montana,” Gen. George A. Custer. The one-time Lancaster avoid any kind of offense to both the subject the Métis moved about the country mingling resident was what One Wolf feels is the closest and potential readers. The most daunting of which being the exonym to use when describing with other Native American tribes writes to a full-blooded Native American he has indigenous peoples of the Americas. After Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer S. H. Brown in known. Cutthroat grew up on Pine Ridge, a reading through pages of debate and criticism I the book The New Peoples: Being and Becoming federally established reservation in South settled on the term Native American. STORY SPONSOR: GOOD’S INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. By Michael C. Upton 20 Trinity Drive #100 Leola, PA 17540 WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW IN ITS (717) 661-6100 ENTIRETY AT www.goodsinsuranceagency.com WWW.REVELOMAG.COM 3 KELLY ERIKSON “I remember being on morphine and asking a Then, on January 5th, while recovering at her to her by her parents) with the raw emotion and doctor, ‘How rare am I? And he’s like, ‘You’re mother’s home, Kelly found herself unable to truth of someone struggling to find the positive pretty rare.’ And I’m like, ‘No, really… how rare eat or to walk without getting dizzy. Another in the incredibly unfair hand she’s been dealt. am I? You need to tell me.’ He’s like, ‘You’re one visit to the ER revealed a blockage in her “It happened very quickly,” she says, “and I in a million.” I’m like, ‘Oh, great.’” lower intestines. When doctors went in to fix wrestle with the fact that before my diagnosis, Kelly Erikson was living the life of any normal the blockage, they discovered Kelly’s “origin” I was normal. I was 25, about to turn 26, just 25-year-old when, in October of 2017, she tumor—a mass in her lower intestines that had stressing about work and about money, hanging started feeling pains in her stomach and eroded away part of intestine and allowed the out with friends, trying to go out and see shows. back. A CT scan at the ER revealed that she cancer to reach her ovaries. “I feel like I had And then suddenly it was like, ‘You could die.’ had a kidney stone, so she called off work at two diagnoses. I was diagnosed with cancer on I’ve suddenly got this ticking time clock on my th Chestnut Hill Café, went home, and waited for December 15 , and diagnosed with my specific head… and I’m going to work because work th it to pass. A week later, she came down with cancer January 5 . And since then, I keep falling makes me happy, and I’m going to go to more flu-like symptoms. For a few weeks, the cycle into these rare categories. It’s a very rare, shows, I’m going to travel when I can, just continued—intense pains, followed by aching aggressive cancer that usually, if you’re a man because there’s going to be a moment when and nausea.

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