By Amy Sokolow, November 12, 2020, Native News.
Jody was close to achieving her dream of becoming a writer. A member of the Muckleshoot Tribe, she had gone from living on the streets of nearby Seattle as a teen to nearly finishing a creative writing degree, and had plans to get her master’s degree at New York University. But debilitating back pain caused by an injury she sustained as a teenager forced her to drop out of school, just a handful of credits shy of her bachelor’s degree.
“This clinic is really a prototype, and everything that we’ve done has been built for scale,” he said. “The recipe, if you will, has been codified, as well as the process for other tribes to be able to open this and turn this into an economic development opportunity for them.”
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