How well do you think Native American organizations are helping Native Americans to advance?
The BIA? They are notoriously disorganized, mismanaged, and generally unhelpful. They have a disreputable history ever since their inception as a subgroup within the U.S. War Department. (Yes, that’s where the BIA began.) They’re currently facing lawsuits from many Native nations because of their incompetence in record-keeping and fund management. I often hear the BIA referred to in extremely negative terms by Native folks. I once asked a class (with some Native students in it) what the letters BIA stood for, and one Native student chimed in with “:Bossing Indians Around.” Personally, I thought he was right on target. NCAI? Extremely helpful, it seems to me. Mostly because it was started BY Native folks, FOR Native folks, in order to monitor the federal government, and inform the nations of federal legislation that was injurious to Native sovereignty and self-determination (termination policies, in particular). The NCAI is basically an umbrella coalition of nations that allows them to
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