As the current presidential election looms, Ray Raphael’s new book, Mr. President, offers rich food for thought about the original intent behind the presidency. In particular, we learn that many of the Founding Fathers were not convinced it was a good idea. Raphael adeptly takes us back to that moment of (in)decision, reminding us of […]
Cathleen Cahill
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Tales of Subversion
The school buildings were falling apart. Old and heavily worn, first in military service for Fort Gaston and then as the campus for the Hoopa Valley Indian Boarding School, they required enormous upkeep. That burden fell on the shoulders of Sherman Norton, a Hupa man hired in 1912 as a carpenter for the federal Indian […]