Sarah Palin | A Native Alaskan's Perspective

Native American views on McCain and "pit-bull" Palin are strangely absent from the national dialogue. You'll actually hear more about Joe Biden(rare) on the National "News" than what First Americans think. Here's a Native Alaskan perspective from Indianz.com via No Rest For The Awake:

"..For Palin, there is plenty to attack, especially for Democrats looking to tarnish her record. The criticism of her on her poor environmental record is obvious, but the ecosystems that she is planning to sell off and open up for drilling are used by Native Alaskan communities for survival. Actually, now that I think about this, I'm not surprised that Democrats aren't using this as an attack, since the criticism of Palin is one that you can make towards almost every single state government and its treatment of Native Americans. There is far more to "Native America" than just casinos, and if you don't know about the fragile relationships that reservations or tribes have with their state governments in your state, its probably not because it doesn't exist, but its either because of the metaphorical erasure of Native Americans from American consciousness, or its because they were physically erased and displaced from your area or state.."

I believe Barack Black Eagle can do better.

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