SRS, I suggest that you read the two books I cited. Neither of them is at all remarkable for their sensitivity to Indian affairs or the Indians themselves.

Having spent time on several reservations, having made friends with the members of several Nations (including those in the Arctic and in Dineh), I find the attitudes expressed as personally repugnant -- but I also recognize that they *were* the historical attitudes. I will no more apologize for working them into what was intended as a satiric comment than I will apologize for Mark Twain using the word "nigger" in what is probably the greatest novel produced in the the US -- "Huckleberry Finn." I will not apologize for the fact that I am related to the German Colonel-General who was in charge of forces opposing the Normandy landings; I will not apologize for ANYTHING that was done in the past. I *will* learn from it, I hope.

I will also point out to you, as was pointed out to me by a Blackfeet, that simple men in hogans don't grow into plaster saints (and yes, she changed Kipling to make her point).

Familiar with any "Powwow jokes?"