However, the author also noted that the companies taking part in the survey were known to have some of the best diversity records and were not necessarily representative of all of corporate America. They now have a presence in 60 percent of America's boardrooms, according to a study of proxy ballots of Fortune-listed companies. But, no mention of Native Americans. In the past ten years, women made giant strides in numbers of corporate board seats. Now we are seeing similar gains by ethnic minorities who are narrowing the gap with women.
Energy companies do less well.
Thus, Indians have been useful to the communication industry as icons and stereotypes useful for selling products by making an otherwise boring presentation more colorful. So on the one hand, as a People, we provide fodder for those in the roles of opinion-makers. And, on the other, we are ignored. Our numbers are not counted. Ward Churchill has written extensively about the US government's concerted effort to dispossess us of our sovereignty.