[Kathy]

Native American activists dismiss such opinion as misguided ("There are happy campers on every plantation," says Suzan Harjo, president of the Morning Star Institute, an Indian-rights organization based in Washington, D.C.) or as evidence that Native Americans' self-esteem has fallen so low that they don't even know when they're being insulted.
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What I find offensive is Ms. Harjo's assumption that the same people she professes to defend are too stupid to realize that she knows what's best for them. If they don't agree with her viewpoint, she dismisses them as "misguided."
What a patronizing hypocrite ...

[Kathy]

Native American activists dismiss such opinion as misguided ("There are happy campers on every plantation," says Suzan Harjo, president of the Morning Star Institute, an Indian-rights organization based in Washington, D.C.) or as evidence that Native Americans' self-esteem has fallen so low that they don't even know when they're being insulted.
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What I find offensive is Ms. Harjo's assumption that the same people she professes to defend are too stupid to realize that she knows what's best for them. If they don't agree with her viewpoint, she dismisses them as "misguided."
What a patronizing hypocrite ...