10 Photos: I Saw What Resilience Looks Like [yesmagazine.org]

Alicia Doktor 1/3/184:00 AM

By the numbers, Native Americans reliably top lists of violence, poverty, unemployment, and addiction in the United States. Taken alone, the data paint a dismal picture of intractable, inescapable poverty.

But on reservations and in communities, the picture was a whole lot more complex in 2017.

As I have for several years, I spent most of 2017 traveling through Indian Country for the stories I was covering. An old-school journalist, I travel simply and close to the ground; I keep a loose schedule so that stories have a chance to emerge. I spend many hours just chatting with folks.

[For more on this story by Mary Annette Pember, go to http://www.yesmagazine.org/peo...-looks-like-20171228]

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