Wow! The truth of ugly heroin addiction... cocaine, meth, pain killers...
From a highly renowned Indian Judge, professor, tribal council member...a Fellow Christian Sister who can sing like no one else...
To know that people who are so brilliant, successful, highly acclaimed and beautiful without make up and special effects suffer, and have been treated horrifically like so many of us! We Native women have many a tale to tell. Often, the world in which we find ourselves... law school, working at law firms, being in politics... doesn’t lend itself go disclosing anything like this. Many of these people have not suffered from poverty, abandonment, communities that don’t normally send off its 17-18 year olds thousands of miles away after high school for prestigious universities to educate...were from different worlds. They “ wouldn’t understand” they’d “ look down on the poor indigenous woman” not look UP to how far she really did come.
For Siera to lay her soul bare, and let the world KNOW what she really had to go through to get to Boalt Law School at Berkeley and Harvard...
This takes extreme courage. Our world is a very critical place. Being Native American .. a woman...a tribal member... is a lot right there for the educated, the masses to find things to criticize enough with just that!
Being abandoned, handed to an uncle and his wife who apparently could do without you...and having hopes dashed. It makes you wonder what inside Siera kept her going. What faith a tiny child had?
I’m SO glad she found the Lord and used that strength to supersede all obstacles. Because heroin addiction as a young adult... almost impossible to move on to Harvard for a Masters and Boalt for a law degree. It’s far from a regular occurrence!
To teach others... to mentor. Advise. Console. Support. Is not easy. She has a gift from God to be able to lead by example... many students... many Christians... see her struggles and know that trey too can beat all odds.
She gives us ALL .. HOPE!
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HOPE is there for we Native Women to overcome our past!
Wow! The truth of ugly heroin addiction... cocaine, meth, pain killers...From a highly renowned Indian Judge, professor, tribal council member...a Fellow Christian Sister who can sing like no one else...To know that people who are so brilliant, successful, highly acclaimed and beautiful without make up and special effects suffer, and have been treated horrifically like so many of us! We Native women have many a tale to tell. Often, the world in which we find ourselves... law school, working at law firms, being in politics... doesn’t lend itself go disclosing anything like this. Many of these people have not suffered from poverty, abandonment, communities that don’t normally send off its 17-18 year olds thousands of miles away after high school for prestigious universities to educate...were from different worlds. They “ wouldn’t understand” they’d “ look down on the poor indigenous woman” not look UP to how far she really did come.For Siera to lay her soul bare, and let the world KNOW what she really had to go through to get to Boalt Law School at Berkeley and Harvard...This takes extreme courage. Our world is a very critical place. Being Native American .. a woman...a tribal member... is a lot right there for the educated, the masses to find things to criticize enough with just that!Being abandoned, handed to an uncle and his wife who apparently could do without you...and having hopes dashed. It makes you wonder what inside Siera kept her going. What faith a tiny child had?I’m SO glad she found the Lord and used that strength to supersede all obstacles. Because heroin addiction as a young adult... almost impossible to move on to Harvard for a Masters and Boalt for a law degree. It’s far from a regular occurrence!To teach others... to mentor. Advise. Console. Support. Is not easy. She has a gift from God to be able to lead by example... many students... many Christians... see her struggles and know that trey too can beat all odds.She gives us ALL .. HOPE!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020
From a highly renowned Indian Judge, professor, tribal council member...a Fellow Christian Sister who can sing like no one else...
To know that people who are so brilliant, successful, highly acclaimed and beautiful without make up and special effects suffer, and have been treated horrifically like so many of us! We Native women have many a tale to tell. Often, the world in which we find ourselves... law school, working at law firms, being in politics... doesn’t lend itself go disclosing anything like this. Many of these people have not suffered from poverty, abandonment, communities that don’t normally send off its 17-18 year olds thousands of miles away after high school for prestigious universities to educate...were from different worlds. They “ wouldn’t understand” they’d “ look down on the poor indigenous woman” not look UP to how far she really did come.
For Siera to lay her soul bare, and let the world KNOW what she really had to go through to get to Boalt Law School at Berkeley and Harvard...
This takes extreme courage. Our world is a very critical place. Being Native American .. a woman...a tribal member... is a lot right there for the educated, the masses to find things to criticize enough with just that!
Being abandoned, handed to an uncle and his wife who apparently could do without you...and having hopes dashed. It makes you wonder what inside Siera kept her going. What faith a tiny child had?
I’m SO glad she found the Lord and used that strength to supersede all obstacles. Because heroin addiction as a young adult... almost impossible to move on to Harvard for a Masters and Boalt for a law degree. It’s far from a regular occurrence!
To teach others... to mentor. Advise. Console. Support. Is not easy. She has a gift from God to be able to lead by example... many students... many Christians... see her struggles and know that trey too can beat all odds.
She gives us ALL .. HOPE!
HOPE is there for we Native Women to overcome our past!
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020
Wow! The truth of ugly heroin addiction... cocaine, meth, pain killers...Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020
From a highly renowned Indian Judge, professor, tribal council member...a Fellow Christian Sister who can sing like no one else...
To know that people who are so brilliant, successful, highly acclaimed and beautiful without make up and special effects suffer, and have been treated horrifically like so many of us! We Native women have many a tale to tell. Often, the world in which we find ourselves... law school, working at law firms, being in politics... doesn’t lend itself go disclosing anything like this. Many of these people have not suffered from poverty, abandonment, communities that don’t normally send off its 17-18 year olds thousands of miles away after high school for prestigious universities to educate...were from different worlds. They “ wouldn’t understand” they’d “ look down on the poor indigenous woman” not look UP to how far she really did come.
For Siera to lay her soul bare, and let the world KNOW what she really had to go through to get to Boalt Law School at Berkeley and Harvard...
This takes extreme courage. Our world is a very critical place. Being Native American .. a woman...a tribal member... is a lot right there for the educated, the masses to find things to criticize enough with just that!
Being abandoned, handed to an uncle and his wife who apparently could do without you...and having hopes dashed. It makes you wonder what inside Siera kept her going. What faith a tiny child had?
I’m SO glad she found the Lord and used that strength to supersede all obstacles. Because heroin addiction as a young adult... almost impossible to move on to Harvard for a Masters and Boalt for a law degree. It’s far from a regular occurrence!
To teach others... to mentor. Advise. Console. Support. Is not easy. She has a gift from God to be able to lead by example... many students... many Christians... see her struggles and know that trey too can beat all odds.
She gives us ALL .. HOPE!
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