-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> The US government is a hodgepodge of good and bad.  When it sterilized
 SB> Indian women in the seventies, it was being bad.
 When the government was sterilizing both men _and_ women of all races from
 the 1920s to the 1970s in the name of "Eugenics", it was being bad.
 
 SB> to deal with a system that was all a villian, or all benevolent; but I
 SB> guess the reality is that that is not how human institutions , or human
 SB> individuals, work.
 
 And because individuals and their thought processes vary according to the
 environment, so will the government which is made up of individuals that are
 only human.
 
 SB> That would be worthy of a poem, or story, or novel.  I wonder if there
 SB> are any Cowlitz thinking of writing it.  I don't think *I* should
 SB> write it.  I don't know enough about the Cowlitz to do it justice.
 
 Stephen Dow Beckham, history professor extraordinaire, who has been working
 with the Cowlitz for these past twenty years is probably the one that should
 write the story. (He has several other books in print about the Northwest
 NAs.)
 Jim
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