This is the current structure of the memoir and personal recollection of the continued negative events that resulted from chasing the “Quality of Life” in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the Indian Reservation.
Look for a publication soon. An e-book is presently the preferred choice used to get this story out.
PART I — COMING HOME
Chapter 1 — “The Call Back”
Chapter 2 — “No Job Descriptions Yet”
Chapter 3 — “What Indian Gaming Was Supposed to Do”
Chapter 4 — “A Cultural Crossroads”
PART II — BUILDING SOMETHING THAT WORKED
Chapter 5 — “The Repayable Grant”
Chapter 6 — “Quorum”
Chapter 7 — “Compliance Is a War”
Chapter 8 — “The Rent Cap Policy”
Chapter 9 — “Chicago”
Chapter 10 — “The Breakthrough Letter (and Losing It)”
Chapter 11 — “Building the Basics”
PART III — WHEN THE RULES CHANGED
Chapter 12 — “Corporate Objectives”
Chapter 13 — “Exempt vs. Non‑Exempt”
Chapter 14 — “Boards That Don’t Answer to Voters”
Chapter 15 — “Money’s Quiet Authority”
Chapter 16 — “Indirect Cost Pool”
Chapter 17 — “Preference, Policy, and the Paper Shield”
Chapter 18 — “The Agency Problem”
PART IV — RETALIATION (Costs of Resistance, Personal and Political)
Chapter 19 — “Held to a Higher Standard”
Chapter 20 — “Retaliation and Retribution”
Chapter 21 — “War by Policy: Drug and Alcohol”
Chapter 22 — “Jobs, Appeals, and Punishment”
Chapter 23 — “The Trump Section“
Chapter 24 — “Fear as a Tool”
Chapter 25 — “Impact vs. Results”
PART V — SURVIVAL, MEMORY, AND WARNING
Chapter 26 — “The Cost of Fighting”
Chapter 27 — “Self‑Sufficiency”
Chapter 28 — “What This Record Is For”
Chapter 29 — “A Warning to Future Leadership
Chapter 30 — “Afterword: A Lived System”
APPENDICES
Appendix A — Timeline of Roles & Boards
- Housing Director / MPHA / Gaming Board / Tribal Council
Appendix B — Policies & Definitions (TERO, IGRA references, Per Cap references)
- Multiple links and policy mentions
Appendix C — Employment Attempts / Appeals Log
- The long job‑loss chronology
Appendix D — Program Inventory / Institutional
- Program lists
