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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002

"The Wall Street Journal, once again, has used its editorial pages to decree who the Indians are and are not, and what Congress should do about that.

In the year since 9/11, the newspaper has made a practice of attacking Indians. Forget about terrorists and global threats or healing old wounds and not opening new ones. The chickenhawks at the Journal want to start the Indian wars all over again.

The Journal’s Sept. 3 screed says if their readers took gambling vacations in Indian country, chances are they "didn’t encounter many Indians." The paper says this is "just one of the embarrassments about U.S. Indian affairs that Congress is finally noticing."

Just because the Journal finally snapped to the fact that we are a small population -- less than one percent of the U.S. total -- doesn’t mean that Congress is as slow on the pick-up. . ."

Get the Story:
The Wall Street Journal’s drumbeat: Is this the way termination started? (Indian Country Today 9/20)

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