Reply #189: Wow! You're the only person I've ever come across on DU who knows about the old Delphi forums! [View All]

I had my own Delphi forum in those days, it was called "Indian Country (something)". Back then I was intensely involved in American Indian treaty issues and cultural preservation and such.

I'm not, myself, an American Indian, but I was living with an Ojibwe tribal historian and we collaborated on advocacy and political activism around all kinds of Native political and cultural issues. I worked as a sort of bridge between our two cultures and mindsets.

He died of a sudden massive heart attack 3 days before the 2000 election. It took years for me to recover from the loss.

Somewhere in that muddled time of grieving I made my way to DU and found a place where I could set aside my personal pain and commiserate with the larger pain of all the shocked and depressed DUers who were gathering here to mourn the stolen election.

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