Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 23:15:25 -0600 (MDT)
From: Robert Johnson <johnsorl-AT-Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Who can Native Americans trust?


	
	Having recently returned from the meetings in Albuquerque of
        the Society for Applied Anthropology, I have a suggestion for 
	Native American tribal groups.

	The next time there is a meeting of anthropologists or archaeologists
	which include those who work "for" your people, I would suggest that
	you hire yourself a white private investigator to attend the meetings.
	You should then instruct him or her to solicit the true feelings 
	of those white anthropologists and archaeologists towards their jobs
	and the tribal group that employs them.

	I would suggest that you would have reports concerning the true
        feelings of those white anthropologists and archaeologists that 
	work for your people.

	I would further suggest, that after the reports you obtained on 
	those who work "for" your tribes, you may decide that you are 
	better off not trusting  white anthropologists and archaeologists,
	could go it alone, and redouble or begin to set up programs for your
	peoples in anthropology and archaeology.

	
							Robert Johnson-
							Formerly of the Dept.
							of Anthropology,
							University of Colorado
	







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