The poisonous combination of greed and racism often seems to be clothed in some such lofty principle as, "the right of the Tribes to control membership". I hope to be convinced that that is not the case here. So far, I am not convinced.

As for certainty that "Indians across North America will support the right of the Tribes to control membership", I am certain that most of the many Native people I have known - in Canada - would find the idea of people being expelled from their Nation on the basis of race to be disturbing, to say the least.