Once upon a time, I too was a liberal, and empathized completely with the American Indian, and the outrages done to them. Of course evil things had been done, and some even continue to this day, but history and life are never quite so simplistic as we like to think. After having lived for several years on an Indian Reservation, that of the Nez Perce in Idaho, I found that most of the problems encountered by the Indian families that I knew could be placed squarely on the corruption and greed of their own leaders. Here in New Mexico it is the same. The Navajo tribe, for example, have a great deal of income, their leaders are rich, but little of the wealth ever trickles down to poor tribal members.
People are the same whatever their race.
It corrupts both Tribal Leaders and Our Great White Fathers in Washington. Human Nature has not changed since The Creation. All people desire the freedom to do what they wish, and a piece of the Earth to call their own. THIS is the unspoken possibility that the Politically Correct and the Indian Tribes do not want us to consider, because it would shatter forever their self-image of themselves as Victims of the Evil White Man. But it can never be considered, let alone discovered, if the truth is systematically covered up whenever a new find comes to light.