FROM THE ARCHIVE

Editorial: The Hidden Indians

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2001

In a commentary published in The Denver Post, Suzette Brewer calls the urban Indian population the "invisible minority" in the nation's cities.

Brewer says urban Indians in Denver are often mistaken for other ethnicities, such as Asians, Middle Easterners or Hispanics. "I get it all the time, mostly from Hispanic people," Carla Hollowhorn, an Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, S.D., is quotes as saying. "So I just say, 'I don't speak Spanish.' It gets real old."

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