I'm just going to dip my toe into this one. Riverswild, I think you're correct about the ironic destruction of tribes through subsidizing. There's an oddly applicable bit of wisdom: "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime...only usually, if he fishes with a gillnet, he won't eat it but will instead sell it for practically no profit just because that's his right." Alright, I added that last part. But it's true enough with regard to the need for tribes to revitalize their ambition and tradition. If I were a tribal member, I would make it a priority to recognize my tribe's legacy of sound stewardship for thousands of years. And I would also make it a priority to revitalize my tribe's economy through better marketing of this fact. Too often, "we" (non-Native sportsmen) forget about how well the tribes utilized their resources in the past. HOWEVER, the tribes themselves seem to be oblivious that this was ever the case.