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To: White Bear who wrote (3538)	1/29/2006 8:03:00 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

I don't know what you are apologizing for, LBighorn. Your post was perfectly clear and understandable. I too have lived on Reservations, or near them, for most of my life. The Salish-Kootenai tribe in Montana manages the lakeshore and surface of Flathead Lake, and I have had dealings with them several times regarding our family property there. Our family has always had good relations with the tribe because my father kept up his frontage fee every year even though he knew very well that many frontage owners were ignoring the Tribe's right to collect it. Now that he is gone, I and my siblings have maintained our relations with the tribe, and they are perfectly satisfactory. That tribe also manages a very nice resort hotel, thousands of acres of forest land, a Community College, and even some high tech industry. It is on the ascendance for sure. When I lived within the boundaries of the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho, there were two Methodist churches. One had a white pastor and a Nez Perce congregation. The one we went to had a Nez Perce pastor and a mostly white congregation. It was one of the nicest churches we've belonged to. The whole thing about dealing with Indians, or Native Americans as I was taught to call them when I worked for the federal government, is to treat them with the same kind of respect that you would like to get yourself. I will tell you this: Although alcoholism is reputedly a problem with the tribes, I don't have much experience with it because I don't hang out in those circles. The Native people that I have known have been much more cordial on the average than the average of people that I know who are of my own race. They are less devious, more straightforward, and easier to get along with than people of my race that I have known, on the average. I've been stabbed in the back, figuratively, by whites. Never by an Indian.