I am on the mailing list for Gyasi Ross, an enrolled Blackfeet lawyer, who sent me the url below for an article he co-wrote.  I have decided to respond to it from a white woman’s perspective, speaking about my own fifty-year-long experience on the Blackfeet Reservation.  (I was gone for long stretches.) http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ict_sbc/circle-of-violence-an-open-letter-to-people-regarding-the-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-indian-women/ Ross...

It’s so easy to slip into Us vs. Them thinking. That’s how we got so screwed up with this question of jurisdictions.  At first white contact it might have been possible to defend the idea that tribal people were fundamentally different from Euro-whites, because the former had been here for enough millenia for the land to shape them, both genes and memes.  But the...