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Michael Yellow Bird, director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas, said that Summers’ remarks were “really, really insulting...
That remark was “misinformed and unenlightened,” said Yellow Bird, the University of Kansas faculty member...
According to Yellow Bird, the word “dependency” is an incorrect description of Native American communities’ relationship to the federal government. Rather, Yellow Bird said, the U.S. owes tribes hundreds of billions of dollars under treaties that have largely been abrogated by federal officials...
...Summers] made it sound like we’re just being beggars out there,” Yellow Bird said...
...value of the goods. He travels to China on trips every six weeks, bumping shoulders with buyers from national homeware chains, multinational merchandisers and a multitude of hungry importers. "As a wholesaler I have to give my guys value," he says, surrounded by faux entombed warriors, meter-high bird cages and multi-colored plastic pots. "There's a constant pressure on me to find goods that they can sell for a 100% margin. Chinese labor is starting to become too expensive in this industry. You'll find they will soon move up the scale into more high-tech goods...