Charles Curtis, the First [and Only] Tribal-American Vice-President
"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided."
You have probably never heard of Charles Curtis. It's okay, only a few of us have heard his story.
When I first moved to the East, and often had to answer questions during orientation meetings such as "Where are you from?" and "Where did you grow up?" and variations of such, I finally settled on simply responding, "I was raised on the frontier by Indian…