When I was in 8th grade, my father decided he wanted to teach and live with Indigenous Americans. So my father, mother, and I uprooted our lives in western Pennsylvania and moved to Polson, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Reservation. I used to sit and watch the Indigenous women bead their children’s shoes and vests. I watched in awe as they backstitched each garment.
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