RE: Another Exchange with Leo Panitch

["David Quarter" <davidquarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Jim Craven wrote:


>
> Thanks for the sentiments and kind words. If I may, and I do not mean this
> as any kind of put-down but just as a suggestion, most of us do not see
> ourselves "generically" as "Natives" or "Tribal Peoples" or even as generic
> Indigenous Peoples (except when communicating amongst ourselves to denote
> our common histories and conditions of life and experience). We are
> Blackfoot, Osage, Tsalagi... Members of different nations, indeed with many
> things in common but also with some important differences that make each
> nation unique. We do not carry BIA./DIA cards that "register" and categorize
> us as generic, blue ribbon, US/Canadian-government-certified "Indians"
> because we believe that, for one example, Blackfoot and only Blackfoot can
> say who and what a Blackfoot is; and the same applies to other nations as
> well.


 Is the BIA/DIA cards any different than the Indian Status card in
Canada? My best friend is on the waiting list for that.

DOQ