Most are little more than assholes armed with a pencil and an attitude. One eastern university created a special watered down degree program for native journalists. And if you were to say anything like that at a native journalism seminar, you would be shouted down and labelled a racist sellout. I've been to their workshops. At one a young woman was bragging about getting a Letter to the Editor into a mainline daily.
Nobody says anything.
Next term they're voted back in, or are at least they're there clamouring to get back in. Nothing, no word is ever said about it in an Indian Country newspaper or newsletter. You gotta t'ink positive. Christ, it's no wonder we're so damn far behind the eight-ball that it's not funny. The born again type are all over the damn place.