It isn't about who "owns" a culture's spirituality. It is about what happens to a people who are dispossessed of their spiritual traditions' meanings to their fragile, marginalized community, when the dominant culture surrounding their community decides to commodify it, repackage it, and sell it as tarot cards. It is about who the community can trust as their spiritual leaders. American Indian people have some experience with this, after all. They know what went down when the Ghost Dancers followed the spiritual ways the white missionaries told them to follow, after all.

I don't know any American Indians who don't want to have the theological and philosophical treatises of their religion taught at universities. Quite the contrary, American Indians I know have been instrumental in trying to get their religion and their language taught in universities for quite some time, largely to no avail. The result? Well, around here, Dakota is nearly a dead language, and you can stop at the reststop down in Pipestone and buy yourself a peace pipe.

The problems are much more complex than you seem willing to admit katlaughing, and no amount of links (yes, I followed them) to Native websites will change the way you exploit Native people every time you make claims of having American Indian ancestry and being "spiritually red in your heart."