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Article: Native American dreams.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2006
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Byline: Bruce R. Posten
Nov. 20--Ivette Alequin and Lacey Clair believe there are some people who don't want to recognize that other people exist.
They say there are still others who, even if they admit there are people different from themselves, will only accept them in the broadest and simplest of caricatures.
"Don't your people still live in teepees?" they've been asked.
That type of ignorance frustrates Alequin, 44, of Bethlehem, a member of the Arawak Taino tribe in Puerto Rico, and Clair, 21, of Lyons, a member of the Mi'kmaq (Micmac) tribe in New Brunswick, Canada.
Alequin, a junior, and Clair, a freshman, are ...