Author: Gabriel Furshong, YES! Magazine

Most of the center’s clients have been middle-aged people who inherit guns and don’t want them ending up in the wrong hands.

Even in a conservative and rural state, Mary Poole and her book club felt Missoula was a good place for refugees. So they made it happen.

Federal recognition offers financial help, and those tribes without it have “second-class status in Indian Country” and remain vulnerable to local authorities.