What!???

Aunty, the only ones defending tribal culture as Tribal culture are the Natives. No thinking defender of cultural diversity doesn't support cultures in general.

The non Native-bashers on this thread are defending Native RIGHTS!, as defined and protected and upheld by this Nation's Laws that the closet, and not so hidden, racists and the seemingly schizophrenic and hopelessly confused liberals (oh, do I support Indians this time or the the pretty whales?) profess to uphold. Our courts have ruled in favor of the Tribes every time and will continue to do so as long as the rule of law and legal precedent guide them.

I don't expect any more from the uneducated, non thinking crowd that produce racist, knee jerk, let me on the bandwagon drivel, but how can educated people actually equate cultural intolerance with the genocide of the Native peoples? It's no coincidence that Natives are the only peoples in our good old US of A with treaties. Thinking Americans demanded a fairer way of dealing with them BECAUSE of the atrocities committed by our government.

This majority of this thread is not about law or changing cultural expectations. It is about ignorance and racism thinly veiled by the excuse that these 5 did not follow the law, and some seemed to really be confused. Go fishing!