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For Myth-Busting, Montana Tribe Take to the Web – The Rez We Live On

October 1, 2009 /

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The Salish Kootenai tribe http://www.cskt.org/ on the Flathead Reservation in Montana is taking a unique head-on approach to tackling this entrenched disinformation in their community.

“They all get checks you know,” Bertie said during an interview near the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota. “All people who are a ¼ Indian or more receive checks from the government," she told me as she nodded sagely.

Dang, I missed out again! I explained that although I am half Ojibwe I have never received any check from the federal government for being Indian. “Oh, well you Ojibwe are so much more industrious,” she flustered.

This exchange, one of many throughout my life, was with a very nice, well-educated older white lady who grew up less than 10 miles from Rosebud. How could she be so willfully ignorant, I marveled, of her close neighbors?

The Rez We Live On http://www.therezweliveon.com/

By Mary Annette Pember

Full Story: http://www.dailyyonder.com/myth-busting-indians-take-web/2009/10/01/2375

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