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Article: Information please! (Natives lack knowledge of their past).
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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I don't know how we can get those people to get back on the right track. 'Cause there's too many of them that claim `oh yeah, I know more than him. Let's do it this way.' I used to argue with a couple, three of them in the potlatch meetings. You know what they do? They grab a book and look at it and they read it right there. `You're wrong. That's not what Mr. Boas said. [Franz Boas, German anthropologist, ethnologist, 1858-1942] ...
Yeah they look at the book `Here, not according to Boas.' And I said to them a lot of times, you can't say that he's right, and you must remember when this German guy was around, there wasn't too many people that knew how to use that ...