NJM 04 2018 in MoMoMo

Finish this sentence: “People would think that I’m exaggerating, but until…“

…until you have lived on a reservation, you don’t know what “poor” and “third-class citizen” is.

I didn’t know what air-conditioning/central air was until I was 16.

Each family got commodities from the government. Those rations consisted of expired, canned food. At the end of the month, we were eating once a day on the weekend.

We walked the roads for cans to redeem for toilet paper and cheap shampoo and soap.

Healthcare was horrible. If you had diabetes back then, you were getting an amputation, and most likely dying of diabetes. We never had updated education and medicine. We still don’t to this day.

At one point, our school was in the bottom 1% of the entire nation.

I graduated with a class of 15 people because a lot of people dropped out due to having kids, or using drugs.

But I made it through all of that. Because of that, I am grateful for what I have. I do the best I can to give back.