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My father worked as a consultant for reservations, and I took a bunch of Native American studies classes(aka get depressed fast classes). IMHO, Indians have had it worse than Black Americans over the last 300 years. While we progress slowly with eradicating prejudice toward blacks and other minorities, people still hardly even acknowledge Natives as worth a discussion. Well it absolutely sickens me, but I am wondering how you feel. At some point for sanity's sake do you just forget about it all and move on? Is there still deep rooted frustration? Hope that things will get better? - at least until they find oil or gold on a reservation and a special interest decides to redraw the boundaries, of course

Everything is a seemingly difficult thing to do at Lockheed and other defense contractors. Changing a paragraph in a document takes 10 months, 76 meetings, and $239,000. It's the opposite of agile

On a scale of 9-10, how badly do we need to overhaul the physician reimbursement pathway? CPT madness, payer obfuscation of benefits, public's understanding of said benefits, etc.

I have heard that ultra running becomes less a focus on being in great shape or stamina like one would expect and more about how much pain you can tolerate or learn to deal with. Can you elaborate on this and take us through your mental journey into ultra running?