No One Is an Asterisk
3 min readDec 8, 2020
“We are a small population of people because of genocide. No other reason. If you eliminate us in the data, we don’t exist. We don’t exist for the allocation of resources”.
– Abigail Echo-Hawk, Pawnee, Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and Chief Research Officer of the Seattle Indian Health Board
There is a world of difference between saying “we’re less certain” and “they don’t count.”…