<div><font color="#550055">Lee Corbin wrote:</font></div>
<div><font color="#550055">>What can the government do except forcibly integrate the<br></font>>families into separate cities as far as part [apart] as possible?<br><span class="q">>It should have been done a long time ago.<br>
<br>Damien replied:</span></div>
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<div>I grew up in Alaska and saw firsthand how indigenous cultures can get slammed by Western colonization. What at least some Alaskan natives went through was "fairly mild" compared to most Indians of the continental United States. The harshness of much of the Alaskan climate and the distances involved helped to protect them (at least up to a point). And now some of the natives reap massive profits from oil that was found to be on their land (but this can lead sometimes to very undisciplined & destructive spending and living). But all Alaskan natives do get free medical and at least partially subsidized college educations. </div>
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<div>There was a tribe in southeastern Alaska who were very shrewd and tried to fight the U.S. government using its legal system in an attempt to hang on to their lands and rights. During this many decades long struggle they sent many of their brightest young men to attend college and law school. A coterie of tribal lawyers finally won a series of stunning legal victories and secured the rights of their people. A photograph captured the strange schism that had formed between the three piece suit native attorneys (dozens of them) and the common people who generally had very limited educations and now seemed worlds away. A common attitude in the tribe at the time was that the young men who had worked so hard to become lawyers and fight successfully for their people in the "white man's world" had in the end lost what it was to be an Alaskan native of that tribe. </div>
<div> <br>John Grigg<br> </div>