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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (2693)	12/14/2005 9:43:12 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Peter, Some of the tribes are turning to non-Indian management people, but within many tribes, there are young people that are going to college to become lawyers, managers, and doctors, with the intention of becoming independent in all of their dealings with the public. I know that the guy that was the major chief of the Navaho in the late 80s, and early 90s, was a lawyer and had turned the tribe around. Until he got them on the right track, they did not have employment, were hungry, poorly housed, and had a very high percentage of alcoholics. When I was there, he had made significant improvements in, and for, the population of the tribe. Although I am far from being any kind of expert on American Indians, I have read a lot, and have visited with them to learn about their past, and what they have become today. In a humorous note, the utes, and paiutes, living on the high desert of what became Utah, and Nevada, had scarce sources of food, and were small, and very slender people, but when I lived in Nevada for a year, they had adapted to white man food, and were quite chubby. They make something called an Indian taco, that after eating one, a person feels like he has had a full course thanksgiving dinner.