Peridot is a green jewel. Most of it comes from the San Carlos Native American Reservation. But the unemployment rate there is 76%. In Jewels, the author meets a local called Franklin:
‘Outside the reservation, you see news stories of people worrying about a recession,’ Franklin told me the day before … In the reservation we don’t worry about it. Our recession has lasted for generations … Boredom, that’s the worst thing.’
I wonder whether boredom is community’s kryptonite?