Not overcooked or underdone. Just right.
Lei-Anna Bertelsen, Bozeman, MT. I’ve grappled with this question all my life. My dad told me a story when I was a second grader after...
“You Jews killed God,” she said.
Claire Baiz, Great Falls, MT. I was ten years old. On the playground at Emerson School in Great Falls, Montana when a classmate said this...
It caught up to me eventually.
Ray, Libby, MT Growing up white in a “middle class” community of a nearly all-white population, like most of the surrounding area for hundreds of...
Sometimes I’m ashamed to be white.
Doug Fraser, Roundup, MT What right do white people have to feel superior to any other race, since we have caused so much trouble for...
So white, you would never guess.
Francis, Livingston, MT If the civil war had gone differently I could have been born a slave. The children of slaves are almost always slaves....
When did you notice the Band-Aids?
Molly, Bozeman, MT. I was in my teens before it occurred to me that Band-Aids are made to match the skin of the White majority....
Welcome to Half-breed Nation Indian Reservation
Katie McDonald, Ronan, MT. Curious couplings of North America’s early settlers and smoke screens hiding the unspoken US “Cowboys vs Indians” history create unique and...
How to think well of oneself?
B B, Flathead Indian Reservation, MT. One may change; one may relinquish imposed ideas of self. Maybe every day; maybe every hour. Maybe never. I...
She is more American than me.
Judy Goffena Boogman Billings, MT When I was young there was a girl adopted possibly by a couple in my small hometown in Montana. She...
Couldn’t understand kid who mowed lawn.
Nancy L Moore Livingston, MT We lived in DC 1964-65 and one day a kid from the inner city offered to mow our lawn. He...
Will I ever meet my Mom?
Colin McKearnan, Missoula, MT. A question that my 8-year old son (Ephrem) asked me on the way to school. We are white and my wife...
Racism is deplorable / racist is epithet
Lucian Hand, Bozeman, MT. To those of us who deplore racism, “racist” is a deeply offensive epithet – use such powerful words with discretion.
You can’t be in a tribe
Hallie Davis, Helena, MT. I’ve been told over and over that I am to white to be a Native American. To white to be in...
