"Her education has been both traditional and mainstream. She learned the Sun Dance and accounting. She speaks Ute and the language of lawyers.
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This journalist set out to dispel the ‘cowboy and Indian’ myths by spending time with two families. He lived on a ranch near Gunnison and the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado. Through immersion journalism he portrays the identities and challenges in their constantly changing worlds.