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Parisian Family Office, Founder & CEO. Started Wall Street, '82. Drexel Burnham alum in LaJolla, CA. Founded Native American Advisors, Chippewa Partners. '95. Chippewa. Conservative. Raised on reservations. Was NYSE/FINRA arbitrator. Trading O'Neil/CANSLIM methodology at PAMELOT, TN farm, GHOST RANCH, MT, on the Yellowstone River, or CASA TULE', their winter camp in Los Cabos, Mexico. Will always be, a relentless optimist with radical gratitude.

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Monday, January 16, 2023

Never forget I said this............

If your friends are not happy with your success they are NOT your friends.

Friday, January 13, 2023

A Covid Truth

Under Covid we violated the Hippocratic oath daily.

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Pine Ridge, South Dakota Reservation School

Dancers at a powwow on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Photo: Hamner Fotos

OPINION

Dean Parisian: The answers to problems at Pine Ridge must come from Pine Ridge

Monday, December 11, 2017

Call it red privilege, or American privilege

By Dean Parisian
deanparisian.com

I lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when I was in high school. Didn't have a choice. My father was Chief of Police for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Department in Pine Ridge. If you want, call it red privilege!

It is a rather poor place. Not much has changed in the 40 years since I was in high school except the names. The truancy, the lack of motivation, lack of parental involvement, lack of desire to make oneself better is still there. The crabs are still trying to claw their friends back into the bucket when they try to escape. If you go to school in Indian Country you know what I mean.

Lots of blame to go around. Lack of two parent households are the biggest culprit but nobody wants to talk about that because the financial incentives are all wrong there.

Once again this year I will be in Pine Ridge before Christmas. Once again I look forward to the visit. It was the roughest high school out of the four I attended without a doubt. I was failing algebra. I bought my first beer in Whiteclay, Nebraska, for the high school prom. Walked in with cash, no questions asked. Age: 15.

To say that I am grateful for the life I have been given is an understatement. There is absolutely no way my life has turned out the way I thought it would. We all face great challenges in life. All of us. It is the privilege we all have for waking up.

I thank my Creator daily for the will and motivation that my parents fostered towards education. The privilege of education. We all have it. It is what prompted me to start my scholarship at the University of Minnesota. My scholarship helps leverage resources to produce long-term meaningful impact for students who need them the most and to help break the cycle of poverty, addiction, moral courage and the suffocating absence of opportunity.

Call it American privilege, I get it, you should too. Gratitude is an awful powerful human emotion and I am elated to have plenty of it. Every. Single. Day.

In Pine Ridge it is hard to swallow the poverty and carnage of the federal government handing out scraps of freebies. The drug scene is out of control. I would like to help the enormous loss of human capital. Bringing coats in the winter isn't doing it. Painting churches in the summer isn't doing it.

Pine Ridge has the problem. Pine Ridge and only Pine Ridge has the answers. Pine Ridge has the privilege.

It starts in the mirror. The power of one. Go ahead Pine Ridge.

Change! You can do it. Reach deep Ridge. Get after it.

Dean Parisian is the CEO of Native American Advisors, Inc., the oldest Native American investment management firm in the United States. The Registered Investment Advisory firm was founded in 1993 to help Native American entities after Parisian began his career on Wall Street in 1982. Parisian is a member at the White Earth Reservation of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, a former NYSE arbitrator and trader who began his career with Kidder, Peabody and later worked for Drexel Burnham Lambert in LaJolla, California. His philanthropic interest is in Native American education and he's endowed a significant scholarship for Native American students at the University of Minnesota. His greatest accomplishment includes raising two sons and 26 years of marriage.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Everywhere, simply everywhere................

There isn't a town, a business, a sporting facility, a beach, an airport, you name it, the people standing there, working there will readily admit, there is a problem in the United States of America.

Here is a major problem for most of America. Reprinted from the website, "ZERO HEDGE".

"Student debt has become a dream killer," said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. "This is a promise to the American people that, at long last, we will fix a broken system and make student loans affordable." Yes...by making them disintegrate and sticking everyone else with the tab.

Under the Biden administration's proposed Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) plan, individual borrowers who make less than roughly $30,600 won't have to make any payments at all. The same goes for any borrower in a family of four who makes less than about $62,400.

"Lo, the administration is making college free for grads who go to work as a barista or bartender, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did after graduating from Boston University," writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board.

But wait -- it gets better for borrowers and worse for the rest of us who are pulling this overloaded wagon. Today, the federal regime cancels remaining debt after 20 or 25 years of payments. Biden's handlers want to zap the remaining balance after just 10 years for those who borrowed out $12,000 or less. Every $1,000 after that tacks on another year.

Most ridiculous of all, in that accelerated countdown to debt evaporation, borrowers get credit for years when they aren't making any payments at all. Borrowers can even say goodbye to the accrual of interest when they're not making payments.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Ghost Ranch Buck

This deer disappeared from the Ghost Ranch after August 28th, 2014, never to be photographed or seen again. If you know of the whereabouts of the antlers please call Sergeant Casey Prell or Warden Logan Moore with the Montana Department of Fish Wildlife & Parks from the Region 7 headquarters in Miles City, Montana.