Literary arts

2007, 7 pages. The William Penn Foundation, Two Logan Square, 11th Floor, 100 North 18th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 988-1830, www.williampenfoundation.org

2007, 11 Pages. Americans for the Arts, One East 53rd Street, Second Floor, NY, NY 10022, (212) 223-2787, www.americansforthearts.org

When funders move into indigenous communities they tread a very fine line. On one side of the line they have a duty to undertake sufficient investigation to ensure that they properly understand a funding request and their own role in relation to it. On the other side, obtaining the information may conflict with the ability to acknowledge and give appropriate respect to the applicant's indigenous culture and its bounds.

The question that needs to be asked is how should we, as young people, learn from the past, so that we can benefit ourselves, our brothers and sisters. Today, I look back at what I've accomplished in the course of my sixty years of life and wonder if could I have done better to improve my life or is this what I was destined for.