Dear Editor: Thank you for printing "Hats Off to a Determined Woman"

Dear Editor,

Thank you to Betsy Marston for writing the article, “Hats Off to a Determined Woman” about Elouise Cobell, and to Editor Liz Pullman for printing it in the Whitehall Ledger.

Elouise was my cousin. Her mother and my grandmother were sisters. As young girls, we spent time together at my grandmother’s Christmas and Easter dinners in Browning, as I too grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation where my sister and brother still live.

She seemed very shy, so it must have taken great courage to meet with elected and appointed politicians in Washington, D.C. One day I was in my kitchen...