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I've lived the past 10 years 1/2 mile from a river village on the Yukon. These guys were still stoneage until 60's when cash society came into village, govt money; good and bad. We've taught in other Athabaskan Villages, you got to be the only white boy in Nativeland for a year to understand what has occurred and respect their society for the good that us Whites have lost and they still retain. The hate you White Boy , dirty White People, that reverse racism does one good too, no joke.

90% of the Indians do want left alone to keep their society intact, they don't want to become White People; but they do have an intense anger at what they have had stolen from them over the last 100 years by our government. Govt took all their kids off them, wouldn't give them back until they give up the land. Once the govt got the Indians and all theiir cousins to move into villages, not small bands that seasonally had fish camps, hunting camps, lands that they guarded on threat of death from other Indians & especially Whites; they lost their rights to the land. This happened up through the 1950's.

You will always see Whites who prey on Indians over the govt money & grants. Our village finally fired a local preacher & his wife who have been robbing the Indians blind on grant money, supposed to be an accounting but I doubt it will occur. You always have crooked white lawyers & native leaders who are blinded by the big bucks too.

Best thing that could be done is to give back alot of the BLM, govt, park lands to villages, let the Indians run fish & game ect,be better off over long term. All kinds of anger over how they lost the land as they didn't have political or financial where-with-all to stop it back then.

Alot of the alcohol problems & related problems are a direct result of the hopelessness & pain and no future improvement seen in the cards. Just more govt sponsered genocide thru BIA, and bits of govt money.

Just remember, they ain't White People, don't even think like we do; don't judge them and expect them to live and aspire to what we think is success. Greed is viewed somewhat like child abuse to most the Indians I know.

Don't mean to go on, guess I'd think like most others do too if I hadn't lived around them.