I fear no man, and I depend only upon the Great Spirit. And what was true then had not changed some two hundred years later. He must learn well the behavior of people from other cultures if he is to help his people survive. But great care should be taken so that the student does not walk a path that will cause him to fall over the brink into complete acculturation and assimilation. The process of disengagement among the People can take several forms ranging from humorous scorn to dismissal and silence.
Intellectual fraud is the belief that it is actually possible to divide knowledge into disciplines.
For all this time the People have strongly advocated for cultural studies. Unfortunately our non-Native colleagues in academe have only latterly begun to address the concepts put forth throughout the centuries by Native thinkers. It is interesting to note that cultural studies as a way to solve the problem of the demise of the humanities and its sub-discipline, English, originated out of the Marxist paradigm which was an Anglo reactive response to the racist classist British society of the 1960s. It is amusing to see grown people trying so hard to make something be what it is not. It is not necessary, they argue, that crows should be eagles.