Harjo: Abramoffs still at work in Indian Country
Friday, September 7, 2007
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Opinion
"It's time for tribal leaders to stop taking the legal and political advice of the Abramoffs currently in Indian country. Team Abramoff only got $80-plus million of Indian monies. Others in the same league are getting much more today for similarly poor advice and service.
A good start would be to stop paying anyone who is trying to scare you with the specter of non-Indian labor union manipulators attempting to take over tribal casinos. Don't look now, but non-Indian manipulators are already running a lot of tribal casinos. Sadly, some of them also are trying to run tribal politics.
Even though some Indian people are mega-rich, most Indian people are poor. If they're lucky enough to have a job, they could use a union to stand up for them.
And here's a news flash: many Indian people already are union members - ironworkers, dockworkers, mineworkers, maids, waiters, truckers, bus drivers, federal employees, teachers, actors.
This would be a good time to take a hard look at those who are invested in picking fights and keeping them going with long-time allies of Native peoples, and to ask why. "
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