I have a new short article out.
My take on the last 50 years of Federal Indian Policy and the strange crossroads we are at.
TLDR: Paternalism was bad. Reversing it--aka the fed. gov. incrementally giving up it's power--is hard. And it's not something Trump likes doing.
[Indians’] foremost plight is our transparency. People can tell just by looking at us what we want, what should be done to help us, how we feel, and what a ‘real’ Indian is really like . . . . In so m...