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Bad Eagle: Time to take the Indian out of BIA
Monday, November 22, 2004
"Indians do seem reluctant to cut the cord. Indians are the most traditional “romantic” folk in American society. We cling to the past, we find our strength in our past, and we will never part from it. Being a real Indian is not something than can be bought or sold, despite the BIA “sales” in Connecticut and California. The BIA is still an historical link for us, and that’s why most Indians tend to cherish it. It is a relic, like our bones, like our arrowheads, like our deer skins. It doesn’t matter that it retards our progress; it feeds our memory of our past. This is the main basis for Indian resistance to ending the BIA.
But now it’s time to be brave, and to strike out into a new era of American Indian history. We need to manage our own money. We can do it. We’ll be the more Indian for doing so."
Get the Story:
David Yeagley: Bye-Bye, BIA
(Front Page Magazine 11/22)
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