: About Me

With a background in Political Science and International Relations, Emily has worked in politics and government for nearly 20 years as a legislative director, lobbyist, writer, administrator, public relations specialist and business owner. While her passion is spending time with her two brilliant, beautiful daughters, her specialty is federal-Indian policy (issues impacting American Indian tribes and people). She's worked for big and small tribes, on remote reservations and on Capitol Hill in D.C. Other interests include children's advocacy, environmental protection and pretty much everything happening in Washington.

She recently returned home to the consulting world and is co-owner of an American Indian owned communications company, specializing in public relations. She writes as much as she can in spare time, but does have other interests, including cooking for family and friends, planning to cook, thinking about cooking, and lifting weights to take off what her cooking put on. She loves the outdoors, bears, camping, Lake Superior and the Mayan Riviera.

My passion is ...

My daughters and, most of the time, my husband.

I know too much about ...

Television commercials

My parents always told me ...

To clean my room and work on organization.

My childhood ambition ...

To be Stevie Nicks.

My favorite memory ...

Remote camping with our kids is tied with renting beach homes in Tulum, Mexico.

Why I write ...

Because I love writing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

MSNBC during the day.."Lost" with my daughters at night...and Alice in Chains, Beck, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Stevie Wonder on my Ipod.

My first job ...

Tribal Administrator on an Indian Reservation

My best moment ...

That's a secret.

My inspiration ...

My children, my husband, my parents and grandmothers and my belief that our country's best days are yet to come.

Religion & Spirituality > Pagan & Earth-Based Religions How to use a Native American medicine wheel

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The answer to the question of how to use an American Indian medicine wheel is that, if you have a medicine wheel and you don't know how to use it, then it was not intended for you and you should not use it at all. New age spiritualism that borrows from Native religions has become very trendy among many non-Indian people, but Indians who practice tribal spiritual traditions find this cultural appropriation disturbing. "Use" of Native ceremonial objects and attempts to conduct ceremonies without being informed by an actual American Indian spiritual leader is considered by most Indians as tan...

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