Information please! (Natives lack knowledge of their past).

Windspeaker | June 1, 2000| | Copyright

I don't know how we can get those people to get back on the right track. 'Cause there's too many of them that claim `oh yeah, I know more than him. Let's do it this way.' I used to argue with a couple, three of them in the potlatch meetings. You know what they do? They grab a book and look at it and they read it right there. `You're wrong. That's not what Mr. Boas said. [Franz Boas, German anthropologist, ethnologist, 1858-1942] ...

Yeah they look at the book `Here, not according to Boas.' And I said to them a lot of times, you can't say that he's right, and you ...

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