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But even Native American tribes mostly care about people who are culturally present in their tribes as members versus being of Native American race. For exampl

But even Native American tribes mostly care about people who are culturally present in their tribes as members versus being of Native American race. For example those whose ancestors didn't partake in the Dawes Roles are generally excluded from tribal membership even if they are genetically similar; the reasoning being they haven't been present as citizens in generations. And really, what should we care about most? A particular hue of skin, or our values, principles, traditions, and history?

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
> And really, what should we care about most? A particular hue of skin, or our values, principles, traditions, and history? That's always been a hard question to answer when there's an existing reality and history in which the "should" in your first sentence is replaced by "do". It's easy to say that it would be best to start doing the right thing today (or even yesterday); much harder to do that after centuries of doing the wrong thing.