I was twenty-two, a recent graduate of a university named after Christopher Columbus. The Huffington Post had hired me to be their "Native Issues Fellow," essentially a glorified intern working mostly from behind a desk in New York City. My first headline, written in that tabloid-y left-of-centre HuffPost style: "Canada Just Confronted Its 'Cultural Genocide' of Native People. Why Can't the U.S. Do the Same?"