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Article: Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Guest Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- November 5, 2003
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By Eric Cheyfitz, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 5--Commenting on U.S. federal policy in "Indian country," the legal term for federally held and administered tribal lands, D'Arcy McNickle, a Salish/Kootenai Indian who during his life was an administrator for the BIA, a Native activist, and fiction writer wrote: action, "however benign in intent, if it originates in sources of power and purpose outside of a community can only destroy that community."
We might take this quote to heart in thinking about current U.S. policy in Iraq, which in very specific ways seems to be repeating the history of the U.S. ...