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I read about the first nation's author being blacklisted from a grant. While I am in the USA I want to express my support for the author.

As an anti war male dissident who didn't register the the USA military draft I was blacklisted from being able to attend college or university by what is called The Solomon Amendment.

Even more relevant about 20 years ago I applied for a $10,000 Iowa Arts Council Grant. Lots of hoops to jump through....description....examples....letters of recommendation....a lot for a poverty wage worker with adults with developmental and physical disabilities. And aspiring writer photographer artist....

I would later be told by the professional arts council staff that I had been selected to receive a $10,000 Iowa arts council grant.

However this person told me that I. A router meeting of the Iowa arts council board of dirt.....the wife of st ambrose in Ed Rogalski .....personally intervened to get me blacklisted. The professional arts council staff said that they had never seen a staff recommendation overturned.....I forgot her 1st name but the wife of the $50,000 a month university president ....blacklisted me .....I won't try to explain why here.....but she was friendly to my face.....on many occasions I brought people with development and physical disabilities to concerts at st ambrose she and her husband attended....

While I don't identify as Native American. After a murder in the family they relocated and did not live as Native American. Just passing....

I'm happy to identify as part European and part Native American....the oldest relative I knew described to me how his father....was Murdered By a white man and the judge let the murderer go because the man he had shot in the back was a Native Americans in Muncie Indiana in 1907....

So the wife of university president Ed rogalski got me blogging about 20 years ago when I was younger and energetic and doing multiple creative arts and literary projects including a beginners guide to sign language....after she got me blacklisted I would fail at my attempt to make a living creatively and go homeless for the 1st time.....

No article was ever written about the university president wife blacklisted a mixed race ethnicity artist photographer writer......

Soon I need to write a long article...

He is retired now with a building and a street named after him and the story how he and his wife blacklisted a poverty wage worker....mixed race ethnicity with no college degree.....from getting an Iowa arts council grant....

Dodo B Bird

American Dissident Artist.

Dodobbird.pixels.com

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