INFOLEAKS

[Nictoshek]

For those of us that can only peek inside the traditions of indigenous people, we are fascinated and intrigued by their ancient ways. If this calls to your inner soul for something more, consider the following:

infoleaks.blogspot.com/

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[gideon]

Having grown up, been educated, and living amongst Native American peoples for better than half my life, I can vouch for the destructiveness of the federal government in their attempt to help. Now they want to help you..

Videos are of the same message but from different cultures.

[kaima]

I'll add my voice, having spent 30 years in Alaska working and living among the natives up here and seeing the relationship continue to develop in those years. I can easily see the case of the Hopi being a continuation of cultural assimilation - more destruction than assimilation - quite typical of the activities siince the founding of this country.

The splintering of native interests and power in Alaska is just one small but effective aspect of this. Whereas we have about 25 "tribes" in all of the USA, in an Alaska with perhaps 90,000 natives we ALSO have about 250 tribes, as declared by congress! Yes, they are organized into 13 corporations, but that is just since the 1970's and confuses the economic and tribal authority of "self government"; declaring OTHER divisions of natives as "sovereign nations" dependent upon the feds for financing (and negotiation) is a horrendously cruel method of dividing and controlling.