John Eggers Column: Thomas Stillday Jr. embraced diversity, not adversity

John Eggers Column: Thomas Stillday Jr. embraced diversity, not adversity

After a couple of weeks at the high school in Red Lake back in 1985, I was visited by Thomas Stillday Jr., a spiritual leader on the reservation. We gathered around a kitchen table in my office, which had a cookie jar in the middle. The best conversations happen in the kitchen, and I wanted the principal’s office to feel like one. I should have had some bread baking in an oven. Over time, through no one's fault, fewer of us, especially youth, re…